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6 New Venture Funding Realities To Guide Your Efforts

Startup Professionals Musings

Mobile and web software apps may cost even less. They have too many highly paid partners, fat fees, an aging corporate infrastructure and difficulty raising money from institutions. They have too many highly paid partners, fat fees, an aging corporate infrastructure and difficulty raising money from institutions.

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6 Insights To Current Funding Trends For Your Startup

Startup Professionals Musings

Mobile and web software apps may cost even less. They have too many highly paid partners, fat fees, an aging corporate infrastructure and difficulty raising money from institutions. They have too many highly paid partners, fat fees, an aging corporate infrastructure and difficulty raising money from institutions.

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Brad Feld Drops Knowledge. Here’s What He Said …

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This time frame – 2005/2006 – web 2.0 And especially if you are dealing with early stage firms where partners might have different areas of specialization but they might have a lot of connective tissue across things. Was about a billion dollars on the IPO” and “was one of the first web analytics companies.

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Super Angels Are A Boon To Startups Needing Funding

Startup Professionals Musings

Mobile and web software apps may cost even less. They have too many highly paid partners, fat fees, an aging corporate infrastructure and difficulty raising money from institutions. They have too many highly paid partners, fat fees, an aging corporate infrastructure and difficulty raising money from institutions.

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Angel Funding Advice

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Professional angel associations – This one is the source of much controversy. Some angel groups have a reputation for slow decision making processes and not enough value add. And each town has their own group. So I don’t think you can say a group like Tech Coast Angels is good or bad.

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What Makes a Successful Startup Community? Is it Possible to Build One Where You Live?

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My suggestion is to get some of the angel groups – notorious for slow decision-making and hat passing – and pool their money into a small fund structure of say $5-10 million. Or how about the best example – Loic Le Meur gets everybody over to Paris every year for Le Web. LA has the annual Monty Conference.

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Strategy Roundtable: Convert Potential Competitors to Partners

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Antonio has a portfolio of Web-based business process management applications for small businesses with 10-100 employees. Rick is looking at Medi-Code as an investment opportunity from his angel group, and Rohit is the entrepreneur. The key take away from that discussion is: convert potential competitors to partners.

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