Gust

NOVEMBER 15, 2011

So how do angel investors fall on this question? My bias, as an angel investor: other things being equal, yes. Not that the Computer Science Degree from MIT or Caltech doesn’t mean a whole lot; but coding and interface design tend to be self taught rather than classroom knowledge. Why waste your time studying?

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Up and Running

JULY 6, 2016

To explain the difference, let’s take me as an example: I’m a software entrepreneur, and, in recent years, a member of an angel investment group. I get involved in detail when the group is looking at startups in software, web, mobile apps, or financial forecasting. It’s reviewed and revised frequently.

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NZ Entrepreneur

MAY 31, 2021

Participants heard about both the theory and reality of portfolio management from three different experiences: Marcel van den Assum provided the angel investor perspective, having invested in over 50 companies over 15 years. Culture: is the company willing to let you help, and can you work with them?

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View from Seed

FEBRUARY 10, 2015

Their expertise is focused across the range of software and internet sectors that we focus on here at NextView — from SaaS to e-commerce, ad-tech to mobile. At their core all of the folks listed above are builders — they have all founded and run exceptional software and internet companies, in some cases multiple times.

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Software Review Technical Review Entrepreneur Due Diligence 120

Business Plan Blog

DECEMBER 12, 2013

Angel Investors vs. Angel Groups. What is an angel investor? Angels are often former or current entrepreneurs themselves, as well as business professionals and corporate leaders. About 225,000 people have made an angel investment in the last two years. Investments commonly run around $600,000.

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Agile VC

FEBRUARY 10, 2015

Their expertise is focused across the range of software ​and​ internet sectors that we focus on here at NextView​ –​ from SaaS to e-commerce, ad-tech to mobile. ​. Insight During Our Due Diligence – We frequently touch base with these people when we are looking at a potential new investment where the advisor has unique insight.

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Up and Running

SEPTEMBER 15, 2014

And keep in mind, as you read that, that venture capital demands everything that angel investors do, and more. Here are my 10 tips (oh, and by the way, I did raise venture capital for Palo Alto Software at one point, and I’ve been a consultant to venture capital for 35 years). Are you still with me?

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NZ Entrepreneur

DECEMBER 10, 2020

Kiwi inventory forecasting software StockTrim achieved international sales in the UK, Australia and US immediately after launching in 2017. I was then able to say to the rest of the angel groups that the others invested.”. He found many private investors were interested in him as much as StockTrim. “It

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Agile VC

FEBRUARY 10, 2015

Their expertise is focused across the range of software ?and? have all founded and run exceptional software and internet companies, in some cases multiple times. with us, many of these individuals are also active angel investors themselves independent of NextView?,? internet sectors that we focus on here at NextView?

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Business Plan Blog

DECEMBER 12, 2013

Angel Investors vs. Angel Groups. What is an angel investor? Angels are often former or current entrepreneurs themselves, as well as business professionals and corporate leaders. About 225,000 people have made an angel investment in the last two years. Investments commonly run around $600,000.

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Angel Groups Angel Investor Software Review Accredited Investor 40

Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 16, 2016

Super-angel investors (micro-VCs). These terms refer to a class of professional investors who invest their own money, like angels, but have the larger resources and scope of venture capitalists with other people’s money. A seed round is intended to be followed by a bigger Series A round. Sweat equity.

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Software Review Sweat Equity Accredited Investor Angel Investor 120

Up and Running

MAY 10, 2013

The event concludes three months of study (called “due diligence”) by the group of more than 30 angel investors, about half and half from the Oregon university towns Corvallis and Eugene. This year’s event was held on campus at Oregon State University.

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Up and Running

JULY 23, 2014

The exit strategy isn’t about you, it’s about your investors. Startups looking for angel investors or venture capital (VC) absolutely need an exit strategy because investors require it. The company brings in money and the investors get money out. The exit is what gives them a return.

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Exit Strategy Software Review Angel Investor Startup 131

Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 13, 2011

A deep dive into the Foundry Group investment philosophy including an interesting discussion of their investing Themes. “… our lens is: Internet Software Companies anywhere in the U.S. If you are outside internet software we are not going to invest. So I was an Angel investor from 1994 to 1996. we are not going to invest.

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Up and Running

DECEMBER 18, 2013

They have a stringent screening process with many requirements for approval—an experienced management team, a sizeable market, a business plan complete with financial projections, and satisfaction of their due diligence process—but the payoff is in the potential of hundreds of thousands of dollars of funding.

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Kenya Angel Investor Technical Review Software Review 119

Gust

NOVEMBER 11, 2011

Startups and investors discover each other, and the community wins because the event becomes visible evidence of new business and new jobs locally. And new angel investors are trained and oriented. In fact, before the final event, the investors have already done due diligence.

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Gust

DECEMBER 27, 2012

These range from outbound materials, such as pitch emails and funding applications, to presentations of your venture in different forms for different purposes, to detailed back-up information that you will be asked to supply during due diligence. Your goal in all this is to try to find a lead investor.

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Software Review Term Sheet Technical Review Angel Investor 164

ReadWriteStart

JUNE 1, 2020

Any custom manufactured IoT device would require software development as well as hardware customization. Equity investors. The third source of funding is from equity investors. Just like a startup would need funds from the investors, the investors are also eager to invest in lucrative startups.

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Startup Entrepreneur Elevator Pitch Seed Stage 150

Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 17, 2009

With open source software (LAMP stack) and cloud computing infrastructure it just wasn’t that expensive to get your company going and founders just wanted to raise less money. If a VC term sheet comes in they begin their due diligence process. I’m a big fan of having angel investors, don’t get me wrong.

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Software Review Term Sheet Due Diligence Southern California 283

VC Cafe

JULY 5, 2010

Janvest , a new seed fund of $5 million backed by American angel investors and chaired by the former head of the Mossad (Danny Yatom), saw an opportunity to fill the gap by making offering US-based angel investors the opportunity to tap into the Israeli startup industry.

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Technical Review Software Review Seed Stage 106

Gust

SEPTEMBER 12, 2011

It’s the result of several decades in high tech, three years as an investor in a local Oregon angel investment group , some consulting in due diligence for venture capital, and my experience as founder and co-founder of successful ventures. What I say here is my opinion and mine alone. Startup experience.

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Up and Running

MARCH 11, 2015

” Our featured speaker was Caroline Cummings, the VP of Business Development at Palo Alto Software. Not only because it’s a product that Bplans and Palo Alto software makes, but because before I joined the company, I used LivePlan to pitch and raise my investment capital. Pretend that you are the investor.

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Technical Review Software Review Due Diligence Exit Strategy 60

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.

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www.paulgraham.com

APRIL 28, 2010

I think it would help founders to understand funding better—notjust the mechanics of it, but what investors are thinking. I wassurprised recently when I realized that all the worst problems wefaced in our startup were due not to competitors, but investors.Dealing with competitors was easy by comparison.

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Tim Keane

OCTOBER 19, 2006

Startups and angels: Along the way to success. By Tim Keane, Angel Investor, Golden Angels Investors, LLC. Due diligence: An Entrepreneurs Perspective » October 19, 2006. People bought the software but grumbled about the pricing idea. « Calculating Market Share | Main. |

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Startup Company Lawyer

MARCH 14, 2010

I also reviewed the TechStars documents last year and they are similar in concept to the Y Combinator documents as the chart below indicates.). If you really want to understand the nuances in venture capital financing documents, please review the NVCA model venture capital financing documents. . under $500K). Legal opinion.

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Finance Software Review Term Sheet Liquidation Preference 70

www.vccafe.com

MARCH 11, 2013

VC Cafe highlights everything you need to know from hosting your code in hackathons to open source legal docs. s the new way to code, and quite easy to learn. You can write back end code in javascript, one language conquers all! Code Igniter. Code Hosting and Version Control. code spaces (svn). WorkingPoint.

Software Review 53

Software Review Technical Review Startup 53

Up and Running

MAY 28, 2015

We recently had Tim Berry, Palo Alto Software founder and business planning expert, present our Bplans audience with his latest advice on lean business planning. We’re business owners, we aren’t all getting angel investment, so one of the principles of the lean business plan is you do what you’re going to use.

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Lean Business Plan Video Software Review 60

blog.expensify.com

APRIL 24, 2012

The right sort of person is so passionate about coding, they can’t be stopped from doing it. But every day spent in that kitchen is a day NOT spent in a real kitchen, learning how to cook real food, and write real code. I currently work in information security, and I help teach developers how to write better, more secure code.

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www.mint.com

MARCH 9, 2010

2 likes ohno 460 days ago If any of these 10 questions are new to you, you will probably be losing every penny of your “angel investment&#. So, if you look for a top position in a start-up, you should also meet investors and board, not only check if they have nice CV or track record. You may not get a second chance.

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www.chubbybrain.com

SEPTEMBER 28, 2011

Also worth a read after you review these startup failure post-mortems. A month ago, half way through my angel funds raised from family members, I decided to review the progress I’ve made and figure out what still needs to happen to make this a viable business. You should sign up for our newsletter here. During this year they.

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Up and Running

JUNE 25, 2014

Angels and equity: there are businesses and angel funds out there in various parts of the U.S. I think that the team from Palo Alto Software, I think I saw some partners that are in this area that just focus on that early stage business. and even international that are organized and are looking for new opportunities.

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