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Venture Capital Access Program launches to aid women and diverse entrepreneurs

David Teten

VCAP© Addresses the Gap between Venture Capital and Funding for Women and Diverse Entrepreneurs. VCAP©, the first program of its kind, bridges the gap between venture capitalists and angel investor networks and women and diverse entrepreneurs, many of whom have not traditionally had access to these sources of capital.

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Why Average VC Returns Don’t Really Matter

Agile VC

Diversification in that a small investor (by large institutional standards), say a foundation with $25M in assets that wants to commit $1M (4%) of their assets to VC, can get exposure to 10+ individual VC funds through a FoF but might only be able to inveset in 1-2 if they tried to do it directly.

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Need money? Read this!

Berkonomics

Some businesses require very little capital and the founder can self-finance the enterprise and retain 100% of its ownership and control from ignition through liquidity event (startup through sale). And even with the significant cost of credit card debt, many entrepreneurs aggressively use existing cards to finance a startup.

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July 17 NYC: Event for Angel Investors Only

David Teten

I hope you can join me for this program, cosponsored by Empire Angels ; HBS Alumni Angels of Greater New York ; and the The Young Venture Capital Society. what you need to know as an early stage investor: best practices in origination, evaluation, structuring and adding value. So You Want to Be an Angel?

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July 17 NYC: Event for Angel Investors Only

David Teten

Co-Sponsored by Empire Angels, HBS Alumni Angels of Greater New York, and Young Venture Capital Society. Must be an individual Accredited Investor who plans to make a private investment in 2013. Members include representatives of several VCs, family offices and other institutional investors.

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What are the most valuable recommendations in order to raise money from VCs connected via Gust?

Gust

Browse through the many hundreds of video answers to startup questions that we’ve filmed from the world’s leading VCs and angels. You really should have spent a heck of a lot of time beforehand in thinking through all of the issues surrounding your startup.

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Investor Nomenclature and the Venture Spiral

K9 Ventures

They may or may not be accredited investors, and they don’t invest regularly or often. The companies go through a 3-6 month long startup bootcamp and then typically try to raise angel/seed funding. Angels : Angels are individual investors, who are investing their own capital and doing so on a part-time basis.