Angel Investor Cofounder Operations Technical Cofounder 
Steve Blank
JANUARY 17, 2023
But these look for founders who have a technical or business model insight and a team. Accelerators provide these teams with technical and business expertise and connect them to a network of other founders and advisors. In some cases the accelerator provides initial funding themselves.) Carlos stirred his coffee.
Startup Professionals Musings
AUGUST 25, 2018
Even the homework is easier, with free and mobile access through the Internet to more business assistance sources, opportunity data, investors, and competitor details around the world. Yet, as an angel investor myself, I can attest that many potential entrepreneurs try to take shortcuts, or ignore the realities of business.
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Scalable Startup
APRIL 15, 2015
There was an article recently in VentureBeat about how much control the startup CEO founder has over his/her board of directors. Unfortunately, this actually isn’t true in most cases, especially for first time founders, for many reasons. Founder/CEO. at least one Co-Founder. Typical Pre-Funded Board.
Up and Running
MAY 12, 2015
Getting feedback on your pitch is a great idea; the more people evaluate your pitch before your investors see it, the more chances you have to catch any errors in reasoning, assumptions that are unclear to your audience, or things that just simply don’t make sense or flow well. See Also 5 Sure-fire Ways to Bomb Your Investor Pitch.
Scalable Startup
OCTOBER 14, 2012
There was an article recently in VentureBeat about how much control the startup CEO founder has over his/her board of directors. Unfortunately, this actually isn’t true in most cases, especially for first time founders, for many reasons. Founder/CEO. at least one Co-Founder. Typical Pre-Funded Board.
Up and Running
SEPTEMBER 5, 2017
I don’t know how it operates behind closed doors. In a lot of the industries in which I ended up launching companies, there was a pre-existing profile of what a successful entrepreneur should look like—typically a young, white male with a technical, finance, or political background,” says Aguirre de Carcer. And if I tried to find out?
YoungUpstarts
SEPTEMBER 27, 2013
In an angel meeting of 25 people, if one angel says something less than positive about your deal, the excitement drops, and the deal can die right there on the boardroom table. If a VC asks his advisors what they think of your deal and they dislike it, it’s dead. Nicole Gravagna, PhD, Director of Operations, and Peter K.
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