Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 31, 2018

Most of you new venture founders I meet as an angel investor seem convinced that starting the business is the hardest part. Marty Zwilling First published on Inc.com on 08/16/2018. You look forward to the day when your business becomes self-sustaining, and settles into a long-term growth curve, ensuring financial success.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 16, 2018

As an angel investor, I routinely toss business plans that focus too much on today, and don’t talk about tomorrow. Marty Zwilling First published on Inc.com on 02/01/2018. There are always new competitors who are planning their arrival tomorrow. What have you done lately in your business to survive against the next Steve Jobs?

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NZ Entrepreneur

AUGUST 22, 2023

He started his first business aged 18 and received the New Zealand Angel Association’s Arch Angel award in 2018 as New Zealand’s top angel investor. Moskovitz is an entrepreneur’s entrepreneur.

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Austin Startup

JANUARY 15, 2018

The Forrest Four-Cast: January 15, 2018 The final deadline to apply for the SXSW Release It program is the end of the day on Friday, January 19. This competition is designed for startups (as well as established companies) that have a product, a service or an app that will launch in the first quarter of 2018.

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Austin Startup

MAY 7, 2017

Tuesday, May 9: VentureCrush ATX (FREE) VentureCrush is a series of unique events and networks created by the Tech Group at Lowenstein Sandler to bring together carefully selected groups of tech industry founders and senior executives, along with VC, growth equity, private equity and angel investors. At Galvanize at 6:00 pm.

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VC Cafe

JANUARY 22, 2021

Amazon Corporate Development – Notable acquisitions include Whole Foods ($13.7B), smart doorbell system Ring ($1.2B, 2018) and autonomous mobility technology Zoox ($1.2bn). The majority of that work is led by the Amazon Corp Dev team. The company also occasionally invests in startups out of the balance sheet (i.e. Physical space.

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Transformify

JULY 29, 2019

Lilia Stoyanov is CEO and angel investor at Transformify. Prior to joining Crossman & Company, he was a principal at Trammell Crow Company, where he led their Retail Council, which worked to advance the nationwide retail strategy. About the author.

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Austin Startup

MARCH 7, 2018

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Austin Startup

DECEMBER 17, 2017

None of us can un-ring the bell for whatever happened in 2017, but we can decide now to improve in 2018. If you decide to be an angel investor, your overall return will likely conform to the public market averages and your peer group unless you find that unicorn that makes you the smartest investor in the room.

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YoungUpstarts

JUNE 5, 2019

In 2018, for example, fintech investments in the U.S. Angel investors. An angel investor is an accredited investor who uses his or her own money to invest in a small business. Not just anyone can be an angel investor, though. I myself have served as an angel investor for some companies.

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Austin Startup

FEBRUARY 12, 2019

We had raised a small round of funding in 2013, led by a local angel investor who was a member of Central Texas Angel Network, and used the funds to build our first product (a mobile website) and launch with recommendations from friends of mine in Austin the week before South by Southwest Festival. Certainly. Most definitely.

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Austin Startup

FEBRUARY 5, 2018

The Forrest Four-Cast: February 5, 2018 SXSW has announced 50 finalists for the SXSW Accelerator Pitch Event. What does Pawame hope to accomplish in 2018? One is to close a successful A-round led by investors who share our vision and bring not just money but wisdom, experience and a desire to share these with our team.

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Austin Startup

JULY 18, 2018

Capital Factory - 2017 Year In Review I can already see some room for improvement on how we measure this and appreciate your feedback about how else we can improve the 2018 annual report. Here are some of the biggest opportunities we have for improving: We need more Black founders, mentors and angel investors.

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Version One Ventures

JULY 29, 2021

The Series A is led by Accel, with participation from Point Nine Capital (who led their seed), Version One, and angel investors. . Tenderly was founded in Serbia in 2018 by Andrej Bencic , Bogdan Habic , Miljan Tekic and Nebojsa Urosevic. We participated in Tenderly’s $3.3M Series A round.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 21, 2018

Another advantage of online investor and equity crowdfunding platforms is that they will force you to pull together your story and documentation in a more consistent and complete fashion than you might otherwise bother. Marty Zwilling First published on Inc.com on 09/07/2018.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 4, 2018

Another good online approach is a simple Internet search for articles like the “ The top 40 startup accelerators and incubators in North America in 2018 ” But don’t expect incubators to magically convert your pre-hatched idea into a successful company. That’s about the same ratio that angel investors claim.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 19, 2018

As an angel investor, I learned this the hard way, and now I’m a believer that smart investors invest in people with the right relationships, not just ideas and skills. Marty Zwilling First published on Inc.com on 09/05/2018. Work to make your ability to manage relationships your sustainable competitive advantage.

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Up and Running

JANUARY 17, 2018

Knowing what you need from the get-go will allow you to slowly assemble what you need as you prepare to get started—if you need a lot of money, you’ll need time to find it, whether you take out a bank loan or find an angel investor.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 19, 2018

As an advisor to new business owners, and an occasional angel investor, I see new business proposals daily, many seeking investors to fund early research and development (R&D) of a new product idea. Marty Zwilling First published on Inc.com on 01/04/2018.

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Austin Startup

AUGUST 7, 2017

This number will double by the end of 2018 as we invite new mentors from Dallas, Houston and San Antonio. In addition to our mentoring program, we host “Ask Me Anything” sessions with entrepreneurs, angel investors, and venture capitalists designed to help get new people plugged in as efficiently as possible.

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VC Cafe

OCTOBER 29, 2020

While this can simply be the nature of lagging reporting on funding rounds that took place, the numbers show a reduction of 50% or so in the number of angel investors and VC funds took who invested in seed in Q1-Q3 2020 compared to 2018-2019. Seed investments in Israel ( source ).

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Transformify

AUGUST 8, 2019

Our 2018 State of Diversity Survey was conducted in an attempt to understand the attitudes and behaviors of tech workers in Silicon Valley and the United States. Lilia Stoyanov is CEO and angel investor at Transformify. I would say that in the past, the tech industry was almost designed to keep some underrepresented people out.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 23, 2018

I see this often as an angel investor, approached by desperate entrepreneurs who have spent all their resources over a period of years on a failing solution, but are still convinced that one more cash infusion will turn the curve from down to up. Marty Zwilling First published on Inc.com on 11/08/2018.

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YoungUpstarts

AUGUST 13, 2018

What do you think young entrepreneurs should know about the worlds of angel investors and venture funds to position themselves successfully for capital to drive their growth? . Michael Patryn: I think the difference between angel investors and venture funding is misunderstood far too often.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 29, 2018

The new audit, due diligence, and liability implications from equity crowdfunding will likely be extended to all professional investors, thus slowing down all investments, and increasing the costs for angel groups and VCs. Marty Zwilling First published on CayenneConsulting on 08/14/2018.

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Feld Thoughts

JANUARY 9, 2018

In addition, we are reaching out to VCs and Angel Investors that we know to see if they will join in our effort. If you are a VC or Angel Investor who wants to financially support this effort, please email me. Finally, for some inspiration, watch Oprah Winfrey’s powerful speech at the 2018 Golden Globe Awards.

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YoungUpstarts

MARCH 3, 2020

While not every investment has been successful, we have managed to complete significant exits in four businesses in 2018 and 2019, providing us with an ever-larger pool of cash with which to make future investments. The next group I would look to are angel investors. The future is also exciting for JAMCO.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 9, 2018

Among many other insights, he offers a perspective on several myths of entrepreneurship, which I can now paraphrase and prioritize based on my own experience: A real startup needs investors to get off the ground. In fact, research by Fundable shows that less than one percent of all startups are funded by venture capital and angel investors.

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Hippoland

MARCH 30, 2018

The fundraising landscape in 2018 for pre-seed and seed-stage companies has changed a lot even in just the first few months of this year. This is what I wrote in Q1 2018 about the fundraising landscape. These are groups of angel investors – individuals who are pooling their money together to purchase tokens.

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Hippoland

MARCH 30, 2018

The fundraising landscape in 2018 for pre-seed and seed-stage companies has changed a lot even in just the first few months of this year. This is what I wrote in Q1 2018 about the fundraising landscape. These are groups of angel investors – individuals who are pooling their money together to purchase tokens.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 6, 2018

Entrepreneurs who can keep their cool under fire are the long-term winners I look for as an experienced angel investor. Marty Zwilling First published on Inc.com on 07/23/2018. In fact, the best will probably tell you that entrepreneur struggles are the best leadership teachers in the long run.

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David Teten

FEBRUARY 3, 2014

Annual Deal Pipeline for Selected VCs and Angel Investor Groups. Acquirer/ Investor. Angel groups using Gust. Our job is to invest in the growth areas of 2018. The people who know the most about the growth areas of 2018 are not VCs (i.e., The median VC reviews 87 opportunities before making 1 investment.

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ReadWriteStart

AUGUST 16, 2019

.” Investing in startups is a risky affair, yet investors are will to take these risks because of the potential of significant upsides. As of 2018, “ since its launch, nearly 1,000 companies have registered with the SEC on 50 platforms, and over $127 million has been committed to campaigns.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 26, 2018

As an active angel investor, I do expect founders to be able to communicate a plan and progress toward these elements, just as I expect them to understand and communicate all the elements of their technology and their solution. Marty Zwilling First published on Inc.com on 01/09/2018.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 7, 2018

Selecting and nurturing people who are likely to help you in this regard is an even more elusive capability, and one that every angel investor, like myself, wishes he could get a lock on. Marty Zwilling First published on Inc.com on 02/21/2018. We all wish we were the next Steve Jobs, or Elon Musk, or Thomas Edison.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 5, 2018

As an active angel investor, I’m accustomed to hearing entrepreneurs pitch their expectation to quickly create a new dominant brand, based on their disruptive technology. Marty Zwilling First published on Inc.com on 01/18/2018. Only recently, I realized that times are rapidly changing. Time is of the essence.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 27, 2018

As an occasional angel investor, I always ask for a business pitch to get me in the mood. I’m a technologist, so I always love to learn about the product, but every investor needs to make sure you have a business, as well as a product. Marty Zwilling First published on Inc.com on 07/11/2018.

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