Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 4, 2011

Over the past 10 years, I have had the opportunity to see how the process works, several times from the startup side, and more recently from the angel perspective (as a member of an angel group selection committee). In today’s world, if you don’t have a web site up and running, you will not be perceived as a real company.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 23, 2010

Over the past 10 years, I have had the opportunity to see how the process works, several times from the startup side, and more recently from the angel perspective (as a member of an angel group selection committee). In today’s world, if you don’t have a web site up and running, you will not be perceived as a real company.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 24, 2012

But many entrepreneurs don’t realize that Angels are also extremely discerning in the projects that they will invest in, rejecting approximately 97% of the proposals submitted to them, according to the California Investment Network. Reserve the company name on social networks to protect it. Define some intellectual property.

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Gust

DECEMBER 16, 2012

But many entrepreneurs don’t realize that Angels are also extremely discerning in the projects that they will invest in, rejecting approximately 97% of the proposals submitted to them, according to the California Investment Network. Reserve the company name on social networks to protect it. Define some intellectual property.

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Professor VC

SEPTEMBER 2, 2010

While VC firms have been easy to find from the old school days of Pratts Guide to Venture Capital , to the early web presence of the 1990s and the current web sites, blogs, twitter feeds, facebook fan pages and sites such as The Funded , angels are still a bit harder to track down. Negotiating an Angel Deal in your PJ's.

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David Teten

DECEMBER 12, 2017

While the historic capital-raising process is driven by face-to-face networking and salesmanship, some GPs actively participate in LP/GP communities to find and build relationships with potential LPs. We believe this way we can extrapolate insights for our particular business model (portfolio operator VC fund) previously missed out.”.

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Professor VC

OCTOBER 20, 2009

I laughed and said that our web site made this clear and we may have even put a brief posting to this effect on our twitter feed. I dont think its time to hang all angel investors in effigy, but remember that due diligence goes two ways. Labels: angel groups , Angel Investors , fundraising. Steve Bennet.

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