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How to Find and Close Angel Investors from a Standing Start

View from Seed

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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Objective Logistics & Keeping Things in Perspective ? AGILEVC

Agile VC

seed round from NextView, Atlas Venture, and Google Ventures, and angel investors. Im a former Silicon Valley entrepreneur turned East Coast VC. I co-founded NextView Ventures , a seed-stage VC firm based in Boston, in 2010. Objective Logistics just closed a $1.5M We’re psyched to help in whatever small ways we can.

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Final Close: The Story Behind NextView's Own Fundraise ? AGILEVC

Agile VC

We typically lead or co-lead these seed round with other co-investors including other seed VCs, large lifecycle VC firms, and angel investors. As I’m fond of saying to entrepreneurs, startup fundraising isn’t about convincing the skeptics but rather finding the true believers. Best of luck. PMarchetti.

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The Advantages of Being an Angel (vs. a VC)

Rob Go

This week, we helped organize an Angel Bootcamp where some of Boston’s most successful angel investors shared their experiences and lessons learned to a crowd of aspiring angels and entrepreneurs. The reason is that most seed syndicates have room for 5-10 angels or more, but only room for 1-3 funds.

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Angel Bootcamp, The Blog Post: A Primer on Angel Investing

View from Seed

Here’s a great recap on the Boston Globe’s tech blog.). Of late, I have had a number of friends who have recently become more active as angels and have been trying to track down some of the advice from the event. A Primer on Angel Investing. But it’s pretty hard to be wildly financially successful as an angel. Why Invest?

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Angel Bootcamp, The Blog Post: A Primer on Angel Investing

View from Seed

Here’s a great recap on the Boston Globe’s tech blog.). Of late, I have had a number of friends who have recently become more active as angels and have been trying to track down some of the advice from the event. A Primer on Angel Investing. But it’s pretty hard to be wildly financially successful as an angel. Why Invest?

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Where are the Deals? How VCs Identify the Next Generation of Startups

David Teten

Annual Deal Pipeline for Selected VCs and Angel Investor Groups. Acquirer/ Investor. Angel groups using Gust. At ffVC, our primary origination strategy is to provide a high level of services to entrepreneurs, and then let word of mouth spread. The median VC reviews 87 opportunities before making 1 investment.