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How to Find and Close Angel Investors from a Standing Start

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Whether an entrepreneur is raising a smaller (pre-)seed round entirely from individuals or she has a seed-stage or larger VC firm involved in (leading) the seed syndicate, it’s somewhere between necessary and optimal to have multiple individual angel investors involved. First and foremost, angels can provide capital.

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NextView’s Investment in Sincera: Simplifying Digital Advertising with Metadata

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It’s no surprise, then, that the funding round which the company just announced also included endorsement from notable insider venture groups and angel investors alongside NextView.

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Understanding Different Types of Angel Investors

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We at NextView Ventures invest exclusively in a startup’s seed-stage round , meaning that many if not most of our deals are made alongside individual angel investors. These angels, however, come in many different shapes and sizes. It can also help founders better approach angels in the first place. The Super Angel.

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Announcing NextView’s Entrepreneur Advisors: Part 1

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In parallel with their entrepreneur advisor role s with us, many of these individuals are also active angel investors themselves independent of NextView , or else they have relationships with other companies or investment groups. But we also believe in the “ keiretsu ” principle here at NextView.

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Advice For Managing Remote Teams

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Meet our experts: Jessica Meher – Angel investor, startup advisor, and founder. They discuss ways they engage with their remote employees and keep culture and team cohesion alive and well. Check out their advice on how best to manage a hybrid, or fully remote team, below. Max Goldman – Founder and CEO.

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When Should Startup Founders Discuss Valuation with Seed VCs?

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For example, even once you’ve determined your initial pricing ask, the reality is that different seed investors have varying degrees of sensitivity to pricing. Angel investors can be the most wildly unpredictable about how they’ll react to differing valuation levels, for instance.

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Second Startups: Why Founders Often Struggle to Find Their Second Act

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In either case, sometimes solving other people’s problems (as a team member, advisor, angel investor, etc.) You might only uncover it by trying to solve an adjacent problem or by going through the process of solving a completely different problem. Slack, for example, came out of solving another problem.

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