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Completing your first capital raise: ten lessons for startups

NZ Entrepreneur

Now, cofounders Paul Simpson and Dominic Sutton are sharing what they learned during the ups and downs of the journey. Ice Angels chair Michael Murphy liked what StockTrim were doing and was happy to become chair of StockTrim’s board of directors and become one of the first investors. “He Some guys just won’t write small cheques.”.

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How Venture Capitalists and Government Can Promote Entrepreneurship

David Teten

We have four non-US portfolio companies , many of which have or will soon have employees in the US. - Creating angel groups with other alumni organizations, using Harvard Business School Angels as a model , e.g., alumni of major NY schools (Columbia, NYU) and institutions (McKinsey, Goldman Sachs).