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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 don’t have an MBA and I don’t live in Silicon Valley. However, entrepreneurs still need to approach angel investors offline for larger amounts of capital.

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8 Lessons For Entrepreneurs On Pitching To Investors

Startup Professionals Musings

As an advisor to entrepreneurs and active angel investor, I often get questions about the realism of the Shark Tank TV series, compared to professional investor negotiations. The simple answer is that with all the staging of TV lights and billionaire investors, it’s nothing like Silicon Valley.

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8 Keys To Hooking Investors, Even If They Are Sharks

Startup Professionals Musings

As an advisor to entrepreneurs and active angel investor, I often get questions about the realism of the Shark Tank TV series, compared to professional investor negotiations. The simple answer is that with all the staging of TV lights and billionaire investors, it’s nothing like Silicon Valley.

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A Guide to Using Authority & Social Proof in Fund Raising

Both Sides of the Table

“Yes&# was given to me by one of my favorite angel investor / seed VC’s to work with – John Greathouse of Rincon Venture Partners and author of the blog InfoChachkie that you should check out because it is filled with great info from a guy who has been a very successful operator.

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

Both Sides of the Table

So I was on the front line of this very aggressive rollup and I got involved in helping with the technical due diligence…”. “As So I was an Angel investor from 1994 to 1996. So having spent a lot of time thinking about this Silicon Valley is a thing in and of itself.

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Should you go after value-add investors for your seed round?

Hippoland

3) Do due diligence on your prospective investors This leads me to my next point - if you are not familiar with a particular investor, it’s important to do due diligence on him/her. If you are bringing in angel investors, this is probably not a conversation you will need to have / will have.

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Pascal Levensohn in New York November 8: Speech at Museum of American Finance on Risks to Angel Investors

Pascal's View

But I am coming to the Museum to talk about the leading of edge of startup financing in the digital age and about real time investment risk management in the new Wild West– crowd-funded Silicon Valley post the lifting of the ban on General Solicitation. I look forward to a lively discussion on November 8 at 12:30 PM.