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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 live in a small town surrounded by farms and I made my first angel investment at 29 because my dad said it was a good idea. So, who are these unlikely angels?

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My 13 Favorite Alternative Funding Options of 2013

Up and Running

You build a campaign by creating videos, telling your story, participating in social media promotion, and offering “perks”, which are goods or services that you offer in exchange for donations. RocketHub also recently partnered with the TV channel A&E for marketing and funding help for their favorite fundraising campaigns.

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10 Marketing Strategies To Drive Exponential Growth

Startup Professionals Musings

As an angel investor, I see plenty of startups focusing on building an innovative product, but I’m looking for the few who are also leading with an exponential growth strategy, to put them in the category of the next Amazon or Google. Initiate a visible campaign against a common competitor.

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10 Secrets of Successful Crowdfunding - From Scott Steinberg

ReadWriteStart

If you fail with a crowdfunding campaign, your brand and reputation will take a hit and you’re going to have a hell of a time going back to investors after that to convince them there’s a market for your service or product. Crowdfunding] investors are not as sophisticated as professional venture and angel investors.

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Lean Business Planning with Tim Berry [VIDEO]

Up and Running

I’m in my seventh year now as a leader and an angel investment group where we just announced an investment last Thursday, and I’m very familiar with how this works for angel investors. Tell your angel investors a story about need. Depending on who the investors are, some want more, some want less.

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Entrepreneurs are Everywhere Show No. 45: Dan Miller and Brian Zuercher

Steve Blank

Dan Miller is the co-founder and CEO of Level Therapy , which provides access to psychotherapists through video, voice, and text. We were trying out different cities, and I was flying around the country, and we were trying different campaigns and various things, and ultimately they were not working.

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Startup Funding – A Comprehensive Guide for Entrepreneurs

ReadWriteStart

Crowdfunding is also an option where you can raise funds through crowdfunding platforms like Kickstarter, but unfortunately Indian regulation only allows crowdfunding for some non-profit Check out this article if you want to know more about crowdfunding: 10 things about running a successful crowdfunding campaign. ? Equity investors.

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