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What Angel Investing & Florida Condos Have in Common

Both Sides of the Table

The dinner parties now are filled with self-righteous angel investors bragging about how many deals they are in on. The best angels will do very well just at the best real estate investors did well in good times and bad. But I’ll judge the angel class of 2009/2010 on a 7-10 year time horizon.

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Lessons Learned: The lean startup

Startup Lessons Learned

April 27, 2009 8:59 AM Anonymoussaid. July 15, 2009 11:18 PM markmontgomery said. For example, one angel investor reportedly invested in several hundred social networking ventures employing this philosophy. Mark Montgomery Founder Kyield Initium VC September 12, 2009 4:21 AM Mark Montgomery said. Expo SF (May.

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Guest post round-up

A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

Four ways to get automatically rejected by an Angel investor. Advice on pitching Angel investors who often have different criteria than the typical VC. How a smart bear built a company so he could sell it (Video). VentureBeat). Also see my follow-up article: Four more ways. Well, that was my title.

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5 Quick and Easy Info Sources About Angel Investment

Up and Running

If you’re looking for angel investors, then I have a resource list for you. Gust.com (pronounced like a gust of wind) is a platform for angel investment, grouping together several hundred angel investor groups and thousands of angel investors. Get into quora’s section on angel investors.

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Examples of good startup term sheets

www.quora.com

looking for good samples with founder friendly terms 11 Answers Mark Suster , Venture Capitalist, Angel investor & 72 votes by Ty Danco , Brandon Wu , Jen Cheng , (more) Ty Danco , Brandon Wu , Jen Cheng , Anon User, Chris Stewart , Tristan Louis , Ravi Kannan , Vin Turk , Shane Lennon , Nicholas Swanson , Sachin Agarwal , Mircea Pa?

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Launchpad LA – 10 Startup Companies to Watch

Both Sides of the Table

Dustin is respected and liked by many in the LA tech scene so it was nice to see him go “white hat.&# Angel investors were clambering to put money in. MOVIECLIPS : Launched December 2009 in Santa Monica, MOVIECLIPS is a premium online video destination offering audiences the largest and most diverse collection of movie scenes.

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“It takes a very special founder to build a media business long term. I have not met many.” Five Questions With Howard Lindzon

Hunter Walker

We would do summer vacations in Coronado to escape the heat and in 2009 thought it would be fun to try living on the island for a year. HW: In 2006 you created Wallstrip, an online video company focused on the finance vertical. I have been right and wrong about video. We never left. what guidance would you give them?