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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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The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Boston Tech Community (Fall 2013 Edition)

Rob Go

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, product designers, 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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Announcing NextView Operator Guilds

View from Seed

We’re calling them NextView Operator Guilds. . The concept our Guilds is simple: We want to bring together small groups of Product and Go-to-Market experts to lend their time to support our portfolio company founders and key operators. Jessica is also a mentor with TechStars, an angel investor, and frequently advises startups.

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

Both Sides of the Table

So I was an Angel investor from 1994 to 1996. We just finished the second year in Boston. Some Angel groups endorse it. Oblong, Minority Report, and the rise of Spatial Operating Systems. So I was on the front line of this very aggressive rollup and I got involved in helping with the technical due diligence…”. “As

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Lessons Learned: The lean startup

Startup Lessons Learned

But by taking advantage of open source, agile software, and iterative development, lean startups can operate with much less waste. For example, one angel investor reportedly invested in several hundred social networking ventures employing this philosophy. Of course, many startups are capital efficient and generally frugal.

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Learn your Austin ABC’s and become a local super-connector

Austin Startup

He is an ecommerce innovator with first Coremetrics and then Bazaarvoice, a very active angel investor, and currently Founder and CEO of data.world. Bob invented Ethernet, founded 3Com (revenues of $5.7B), was the Editor of InfoWorld magazine, and was a venture capitalist at Polaris in Boston. Edwards University.

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How to Work with Lawyers at a Startup

Both Sides of the Table

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.