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How to Raise Startup Funding from Unlikely Angel Investors

Up and Running

Angel investors come from a variety of ages, backgrounds, and professions. I’m not your average angel. I’m not active in an angel group. I live in a small town surrounded by farms and I made my first angel investment at 29 because my dad said it was a good idea. So, who are these unlikely angels?

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Convertible Equity, A Better Alternative To Convertible Debt?

techcrunch.com

There has been no shortage of controversy and criticism around the convertible note, a popular investing vehicle that’s used by seed stage and angel investors. Advertise Here. Advertise Here. → Learn More. Sometimes these loans have a valuation cap and/or a discount. Your tip here. tips@techcrunch.com.

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The Entrepreneur’s Essentials #18: The strength of natural network effects

Austin Startup

I believe the single best report released from Bazaarvoice to describe this network effect with hard data is The Conversation Index, Vol. As angel investors, we’re always thinking about this when we evaluate new startups but it doesn’t mean the business will be successful. 8, which was released earlier this week.

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How to Start a Business in a Month – #30DayChallenge

Up and Running

It will also help you when it comes time to write your business plan, especially if you’re pitching an angel investor or a venture capital firm – they will want to see there’s a market for your idea, otherwise, it won’t scale as rapidly as they need it to in order to make a return on their investment. Day 21: Advertise.

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Seth Sternberg – Meebo

Both Sides of the Table

From there most websites unfortunately don’t know what to really do with it so it basically just becomes a way to log you in and potentially allow advertisers to serve up more targeted (and therefore higher CPM) ads. We then captured this conversation again on camera. Again, he stressed the importance of good mentors.

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Twitter Link Roundup #180 – Small Business, Startups, Innovation, Social Media, Design, Marketing and More

crowdSPRING Blog

The above is a funny short video looking at an actual conversation between a father and his 2 year old daughter. The Why and How Of Updating Your Angel Investors – [link]. Looks like Tumblr is now chasing the native advertising rabbit – [link]. If you have kids, you’ll love this.

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9 Tips for Raising Startup Funds on AngelList

mashable.com

Joshua Baer is the co-founder and CEO of Otherinbox , a prolific angel investor and the director of Capital Factory , Austin’s seed-stage incubator. First you’ll want to find a lead investor — someone many other investors will recognize and respect. This list of top angel investors is a good start.