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How To Test The Startup Lifestyle Before You Commit

Startup Professionals Musings

So here is a rational hedge strategy I recommend, and see playing out every day in Silicon Valley and other startup hubs. Most Angel groups and VCs advertise the startups they have recently funded, with pointers to startup websites, sometimes including open positions. Explore investor websites and conferences.

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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 don’t have an MBA and I don’t live in Silicon Valley. I’m not your average angel. Last year, angel investments surpassed VC’s by $3 billion (15%).

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ProfessorVC: How Much Diligence is Due.

Professor VC

The last blogger in Silicon Valley. How Much Diligence is Due.Or Ive addressed the due diligence question in previous posts, but this came up again in a debate we were having at a recent meeting of the Sand Hill Angels. Not exactly extensive diligence. ProfessorVC. Thursday, January 27, 2011.

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5 Ways To Safely Sample The Entrepreneur Lifestyle

Startup Professionals Musings

So here is a rational hedge strategy I recommend, and see playing out every day in Silicon Valley and other startup hubs. Most Angel groups and VCs advertise the startups they have recently funded, with pointers to startup websites, sometimes including open positions. Explore investor websites and conferences.

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

Both Sides of the Table

My initial desire to blog came from something that’s always been my approach to investing – I’m a nerd and I love to play with the technology and part of my approach has really been to understand things both at a user level and at a reasonably deep tentacle level. So I was an Angel investor from 1994 to 1996. Brad on blogging.

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Find an Angel Investor, Without Going Through Hell

Startup Professionals Musings

As a member of one of these local organizations, I use Angelsoft on the investor side to review business plans, deal flow, and help orchestrate presenters at monthly meetings of the local organization. The Founding Chapter is in Silicon Valley, California, (naturally), and I have a connection there if you need a start.

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The Investors Guide to SXSW 2019

Austin Startup

Grab a group of friends and tour the latest and greatest of Austin’s startup community. We will announce the winner of the Artificial Intelligence Technologies category at the SXSW Pitch Awards Ceremony on Sunday, March 10th at 6:30pm in Salon H on the 6th floor of the Hilton Hotel. Come check out tech through a military lens.