YoungUpstarts

JUNE 5, 2019

Angel investors. An angel investor is an accredited investor who uses his or her own money to invest in a small business. Not just anyone can be an angel investor, though. I myself have served as an angel investor for some companies. Self-funding or “bootstrapping.”.

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Feld Thoughts

DECEMBER 18, 2011

For now, the title is “ Startup Communities: Creating A Great Entrepreneurial Ecosystem In Your City.” If you are a leader in your entrepreneurial community and have something you want to add , email me 500 – 1000 words. The Boulder Entrepreneurial Community. Welcome Everyone Into The Entrepreneurial Community.

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Up and Running

MARCH 11, 2015

Almost as good as the blog itself is the thoughtful and intelligent community that posts hundreds of insightful comments on a daily basis. Andrew Parker is a VC with Spark Capital in Boston. Funding a Business Venture Capital and Angel Investors advice blogs funding venture capital venture capitalist' Above the Crowd.

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Austin Startup

MARCH 3, 2018

Heather Brunner, Tim Ferriss, Mayor Adler, Whitney Wolfe, Kendra Scott, Andy Roddick, Rod Favaron, Bijoy, whurley… Here are some of the Austin startup community members that will be on stage who you should show up to support! Successful businesses that give back to the community, and it’s all on brand. Time: 12:30PM?—?

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Rob Go

SEPTEMBER 3, 2012

Boston is a great place to start and build a company. There is a wealth of resources that are unique to this town and a vibrant community of hackers, business people, and investors at various stages in their career. Mobile Mondays : Boston chapter of the world’s largest Mobile professional community.

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Austin Startup

DECEMBER 20, 2020

He’s been programming since he was a kid running some of the first online communities and networked games. He is an ecommerce innovator with first Coremetrics and then Bazaarvoice, a very active angel investor, and currently Founder and CEO of data.world. Edwards University.

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Feld Thoughts

SEPTEMBER 21, 2011

One of the principles of TechStars has been to be as inclusive as possible for the VC and angel investors in the communities in which we run programs. To date, there are over 75 VCs and angels that are funding TechStars programs in Boulder, Boston, Seattle, and New York.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 21, 2010

They get together with a few buddies, bounce around ideas, build some code (sometimes internally, sometimes through contractors), start talking to potential angel investors and then register their company. Local : many entrepreneurs like to use their old friend from Boston even though they’re now living in Boulder.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 21, 2020

Many of you are convinced that it’s all about finding investors, but my experience indicates that the critical resources needed go far beyond money. I saw these addressed well in a new book, “ The Startup Community Way ,” by Brad Feld and Ian Hathaway. Of course, ultimately you must appeal to real customers to survive.

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ReadWriteStart

SEPTEMBER 9, 2010

ranking it ahead of the noted startup hotspot of Boston. With over 60 member companies, the group has helped bring the Madison entrepreneur community together. The group also has its own Capital Entrepreneurs Angel List, based off of a similar program out of Venture Hacks.

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David Cohen

JANUARY 31, 2013

You can make a real difference and teach the Denver PUC the same lesson that community leaders supporting Uber have already taught similar groups in places like Boston and Washington DC and others: that the people of Colorado won’t stand for protectionist actions that prevent innovation. 1) Contact Gov.

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Seeing Both Sides

SEPTEMBER 14, 2010

(Warning:   the following blog post will seem parochial for all readers outside of the Boston area. Dear Boston-area student, Welcome (back) to the Top City of the Global Innovation Economy ! So here’s a little advice for you – do us all a favor and plug in to the community that surrounds you.   DART Boston.

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Gust

DECEMBER 1, 2011

Furthermore during this economic downturn, we’ve heard a crescendo of voices lamenting the lack of startup funding, as communities finally recognize that new companies are the key source of job creation in this country. Total angel funding in 2010 was up somewhat, but has ranged from $15 to $20 billion for several years.

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 15, 2014

Of course this can be done and of course I am a big proponent of the rise of startup centers across the country as the Internet has moved from the “infrastructure phase” to the “application phase” dominated by the three C’s: content, communications and commerce. Think about Facebook had it stayed in Boston.

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VC Adventure

SEPTEMBER 1, 2010

As readers of this blog know, I’m a huge fan and supporter of TechStars (and, along with my Foundry partners , an individual investor each of the TechStars programs in Boulder, Boston, Seattle and now New York City). The New York program will be run by David Tisch – a well known local entrepreneur and angel investor.

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Agile VC

FEBRUARY 21, 2012

We typically lead or co-lead these seed round with other co-investors including other seed VCs, large lifecycle VC firms, and angel investors. These include many of our colleagues in the VC industry, folks from our prior firms, and a handful of people in the LP community who offered constructive guidance. Best of luck.

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SoCal CTO

JULY 13, 2010

How-to learn about angel/vc term sheets - Gabriel Weinberg , June 28, 2010 I think every startup entrepreneur (and angel investor) should have a good understanding of financing term sheets. It sounds like Angel Boot Camp rocked. You can follow us all on twitter via the new hacker-angels list. Delegate and automate.

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View from Seed

JANUARY 24, 2018

Jessica is VP, Marketing at Notarize and Founder of Girl Capital, a network for aspiring female angel investors. Jessica is also a mentor with TechStars, an angel investor, and frequently advises startups. She serves on the board for Big Sisters of Greater Boston, and on the board of advisors for Chewy and Dia&Co.

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Rob Go

OCTOBER 21, 2014

The first Angel Bootcamp happened several years ago. The goal was to mobilize and educate the angel community in Boston to become more comfortable and more active investing in early stage internet, mobile, and software companies.

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Feld Thoughts

OCTOBER 15, 2010

Since then, Ive been involved with creating and funding hundreds of companies both as an angel investor and a VC (now at Foundry Group). entrepreneurial community, which was vibrant but small. Boulder’s population is just 100,000. A year ago, David and I decided to try to put our thoughts down in a book.

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View from Seed

AUGUST 26, 2015

A little under a year ago, we hosted an event called Angel Bootcamp that was a primer for folks thinking about getting into angel investing. It was really helpful for the community, and it is something we’ll probably do again, although not every year. Here’s a great recap on the Boston Globe’s tech blog.). Other thoughts?

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View from Seed

AUGUST 26, 2015

A little under a year ago, we hosted an event called Angel Bootcamp that was a primer for folks thinking about getting into angel investing. It was really helpful for the community, and it is something we’ll probably do again, although not every year. Here’s a great recap on the Boston Globe’s tech blog.). Other thoughts?

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VC Adventure

NOVEMBER 25, 2009

The NY Times is reporting today on the question of entrepreneurs paying to pitch their companies to prospective investors - “Should Start-Ups Pay to Pitch?”. My view of angel groups is simple. If you’re not rich enough to screen your own potential investments then you’re not rich enough to be an angel investor.

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onstartups.com

SEPTEMBER 16, 2011

Home About Resources Answers Speaking Community Top Blogs. From Nashville to Boston: How A Startup Accelerator Changed Our Lives (1 month ago). Raising Money On AngelList: 21 Tips From Two Active Angels (1 month ago). 5 Reasons An Angel Investor Will Walk From Your Deal (1 month ago). About This Blog. OnStartups.

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The Next Web

JANUARY 24, 2014

Think of Stanford and Sandhill road in Silicon Valley, Route 128 in Boston or IIT in Bangalore India. This includes lowering the barriers for angel investors and giving entrepreneurs a second or third chance if they fail. In my view, we can do a better job of forming strong tech communities. We need a center of gravitas.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JANUARY 10, 2011

We still have some collective scar tissue: the idea conjures up the hordes of dot-com hopefuls that descended on VC’s and angel investors with little more than a business plan. It’s a common refrain around Silicon Valley to disparage the role of MBA’s in entrepreneurship. The class debuts in a few weeks.

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Tim Keane

MAY 27, 2010

Startups and angels: Along the way to success. By Tim Keane, Angel Investor, Golden Angels Investors, LLC.   You are all the future of job growth, wealth creation and better communities. .   You are all the future of job growth, wealth creation and better communities. It was bootstrapped.

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David Teten

FEBRUARY 3, 2014

Annual Deal Pipeline for Selected VCs and Angel Investor Groups. Acquirer/ Investor. Angel groups using Gust. However, as the millennials reach decision-making roles in companies, an increasing number of senior executives and investors are actively participating in gated online communities. 2009) [ii].

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Growthink Blog

JUNE 28, 2010

Famed technology investors like Vinod Khosla and Ron Conway have taken this approach, with personal investment positions in literally dozens (if not more) of companies. They, however, are both professional investors and technologists, and deeply networked into the core U.S. angel investor deal community - namely Silicon Valley.

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Growthink Blog

JUNE 28, 2010

Famed technology investors like Vinod Khosla and Ron Conway have taken this approach, with personal investment positions in literally dozens (if not more) of companies. They, however, are both professional investors and technologists, and deeply networked into the core U.S. angel investor deal community - namely Silicon Valley.

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Austin Startup

MARCH 7, 2018

With ~1,500 startups, the Capital Factory community will be all over SXSW! Despite regularly being named the “Best City to Live” and attracting 150+ new residents every day, Austin’s tech community lags its coastal peers in both investment dollars and successful exits. All of Austin is getting ready for SXSW- and that means us too!

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ReadWriteStart

MAY 29, 2013

Take a look at the most recent TechStars Boston class. TechStars Boston has tried in recent years to focus at least parts of its classes on companies that may not fit the typical notion of a tech startup, looking for companies, ideas and founders that have intimate knowledge of how disrupt an industry that others may ignore.

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www.paulgraham.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

Silicon Valleydominates, then Boston, then Seattle, Austin, Denver, and New York. We investsmall amounts of our own, like angel investors. [ billionfor the same lesson, partly because they could then tell themselvesthat they were buying a phenomenon, or a community, or some vaguething like that. Afterthat theres not much.

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Small Business Force

OCTOBER 22, 2017

As an entrepreneur with multiple startups I founded; as CEO or senior executive of several small companies that either were public or went public; as an investment banker for dozens of small business clients; as an angel investor in various startups and small business opportunities. Angel investors rarely invest more than $50-100K.

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onstartups.com

SEPTEMBER 16, 2011

Home About Resources Answers Speaking Community Top Blogs. From Nashville to Boston: How A Startup Accelerator Changed Our Lives (1 month ago). Raising Money On AngelList: 21 Tips From Two Active Angels (1 month ago). 5 Reasons An Angel Investor Will Walk From Your Deal (1 month ago). About This Blog.

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This is going to be BIG.

MAY 10, 2010

No, it wasn’t how good my angel investors were or how much I could afford to pay her. For example, because the community is smaller and more tight knit, there’s an increased chance that you know someone at the company you’re moving to—or that it already has a good community reputation. 3 Build up relationships beforehand.

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