Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 23, 2010

Every new startup I know dreams of being funded by an angel investor. That’s why this item is so important, and is probably the biggest stumbling block I see in getting through the initial angel screening. If the founders are not experienced, find a couple of advisors from the business sector to fill the gap.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 4, 2011

Every new startup I know dreams of being funded by an angel investor. That’s why this item is so important, and is probably the biggest stumbling block I see in getting through the initial angel screening. If the founders are not experienced, find a couple of advisors from the business sector to fill the gap.

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YoungUpstarts

JANUARY 12, 2017

Securing adequate financing for any new venture nowadays is an exceptionally difficult proposition, which is why angel investors are considered so valuable to the startup ecosystem. This due to equity ownership interest often requiring an exchange for the early stage funding provided by the investor.

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Gust

DECEMBER 16, 2012

ABC Shark Tank Angels via Elite Daily. Every new startup I know dreams of being funded early by one of the 318,000 active Angel investors in the USA alone. That’s why this item is so important, and is probably the biggest stumbling block I see in getting through the initial Angel screening. Build a prototype product.

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The Startup Magazine

OCTOBER 14, 2019

Vlad Rigenco offers 9 important tips on beginning a startup company and names some of the pitfalls that can happen along the way. According to Founder and CEO of Dood Inc., Your options for financing a startup company include crowdfunding, small business loans and grants, angel investors, and traditional bank financing.

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View from Seed

FEBRUARY 10, 2015

We’re excited and feel incredibly lucky to have them back on board: Niraj Shah and Steven Conine – Co-founders of Wayfair. Brian Shin – Founder/CEO of Visible Measures. We frequently tell entrepreneurs that advisors who are just names on a page are kind of a waste of time. Mike Baker – CEO of DataXu.

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Agile VC

FEBRUARY 10, 2015

We’re excited and feel incredibly lucky to have them back on board: Niraj Shah & Steve Conine – Co-founders of Wayfair. Mike Baker – Co-Founder/CEO of DataXu. Brian Shin – Founder/CEO of Visible Measures. The Purpose of Entrepreneur Advisors​.

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Up and Running

NOVEMBER 26, 2018

If you are looking for names and addresses of venture capitalists , start with the internet. The names and addresses of venture capitalists are also available in a couple of annual directories: The Western Association of Venture Capitalists publishes an annual directory. These are shark-infested waters. Commercial lenders.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 20, 2016

Thus the top priority of every entrepreneur who wants funding should be to build and highlight their “dream team” of co-founders, executives and advisers, to attract the biggest and best investors. Solo entrepreneurs rarely find an investor.

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David Teten

JUNE 22, 2012

HBS Angels of NY and the NAIC have named the finalist women and minority entrepreneurs of the Venture Capital Access Program; check out the press release below. Harvard Business School Alumni Angels of Greater New York and the.

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Agile VC

FEBRUARY 10, 2015

We’re excited and feel incredibly lucky to have them back on board: Niraj Shah & Steve Conine – Co-founders of Wayfair. Mike Baker – Co-Founder/CEO of DataXu. Brian Shin – Founder/CEO of Visible Measures. advice and mentorship to founders in the NextView portfolio.

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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. Ramen-profitable.

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David Teten

JUNE 22, 2012

HBS Angels of NY and the NAIC have named the finalist women and minority entrepreneurs of the Venture Capital Access Program; check out the press release below. Harvard Business School Alumni Angels of Greater New York and the.

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Gust

FEBRUARY 1, 2014

The ideal angel investor would spend a great deal of his/her time working on behalf of the company in support of the CEO, in every way other than being a full-time employee. In addition to doing the kinds of things that anyone (employee, friend, parent, founder, etc.) For the rest of us, LinkedIn can offer a good substitute.

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This is going to be BIG.

NOVEMBER 22, 2013

In a seed or friends and family round, tough questions, in the eyes of many founders, signal an investor that will either a) never get to the writing a check part or b) be such a pain in the ass afterwards that it might not be worth taking their money. Tough questions are a godsend. Running a startup is going to be difficult.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 16, 2023

The name “investment bank” somehow always sounded like a place where I could deposit my investments, and maybe even earn a little interest. Startups looking for an angel investor, or a Venture Capital investment usually realize that neither of these sources of funds normally has any connection with a bank.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 26, 2020

The name “investment bank” somehow always sounded like a place where I could deposit my investments, and maybe even earn a little interest. Startups looking for an angel investor, or a Venture Capital investment usually realize that neither of these sources of funds normally has any connection with a bank.

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Austin Startup

JULY 22, 2017

I’ve named the Walker Rule after Madam C. The Walker Rule calls for diversity and inclusion in interviewing and hiring of startup co-founders, CEO, senior team, management, staff, board of directors and advisors. The Rooney Rule requires every NFL team to interview at least one minority candidate for head coach vacancies.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 7, 2023

You may think this question is just an artifact of good television, but let me assure you that in my experience as an angel investor, it’s a standard “make or break” inquiry posed to every entrepreneur. Have backup charts for investors wanting more detail. Funding for founder salaries at this stage is a red flag.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 20, 2011

They have totally changed the way you run a VC firm, investing heavily in systems & events for their founders that are pushing the boundaries of the way our industry works. The discussion with Howard Morgan starts off by acknowledging Josh Kopelman as a co-founder of First Round Capital. I'm a huge fan of this innovation.

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YoungUpstarts

AUGUST 3, 2015

by Tom Britton, co-founder & CTO at SyndicateRoom.com. Your first investors can be your most valuable assets so when looking to raise finance you should always look beyond the capital to what else the angel can bring to your business. Avoid investors who don’t really go into the details and only focus on tax breaks.

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Berkonomics

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

After friends and family… Once a company founder has tapped the funds available from his or her resources and from friends and family, if the company needs more cash for growth, the most obvious next step is to look for money from angel investors and venture capitalists, typically in the $300,000 TO $3,000,000 range.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 12, 2020

You may think this question is just an artifact of good television, but let me assure you that in my experience as an angel investor, it’s a standard “make or break” inquiry posed to every entrepreneur. Have backup charts for investors wanting more detail. Funding for founder salaries at this stage is a red flag.

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Transformify

APRIL 15, 2016

Despite Kenya has been named as the fasted growing payments market in Africa, there is still a lot to be done to develop the local business angel community. I met Innocent Moranga, the founder of the Founder Magazine , at a round table peer group at CEOWorld. Mbwana Alliy Founder and Managing Partner at Savannah Fund.

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Up and Running

SEPTEMBER 11, 2014

Rob Biederman, co-founder of HourlyNerd, has a funding story that wouldn’t be out of place in a movie. But, before they were big names, they were simply a team that needed additional money urgently to pay their website development firm. I used traditional methods of funding, namely bank loans, for the purchase.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 18, 2010

In conjunction with the timings above, here are my recommendations on the sequence of events: Focus and solidify your product idea and company name before incorporating. Move quickly to prepare the case for external funding, if angel investors are required.

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Duct Tape Marketing

APRIL 6, 2022

Steve is the CEO of Founders Space, one of the world’s leading startup accelerators with over 50 partners in 22 countries. Founders Space was ranked the #1 incubator for overseas startups by Forbes and Entrepreneur Magazines. 18:05] How does the Founder Space operate? [20:21] He's the CEO of founders space.

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Hippoland

AUGUST 21, 2016

Portfolio founder: There’s an investor who wants to invest about $500k. Portfolio founder: That’s the problem. I want “value-add” investors in my round. This especially happens when founders start getting a lot of inbound requests from investors to meet, so they think that they have a lot of investor options.

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Feld Thoughts

MAY 28, 2015

Or if you want to go back to 2004 and 2005 when I was really learning about Agile, well before it had become a household name, you could read my posts Agile Software Development with SCRUM or Do You Develop Software For A Living? – Tim Miller (CEO) and Ryan Martens (CTO, founder) have been working together from the start of the journey.

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Up and Running

AUGUST 15, 2017

Therefore, it makes perfect sense to develop relationships with seed investors, venture capitalists, angel investors, private investing firms, and even banks, depending on your business goals and growth capacity. Bill Gates, founder of Microsoft, has referred to Warren Buffet as his mentor and credited his success to him.

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YoungUpstarts

MAY 1, 2020

by Ash Rust , founder and managing partner of Sterling Road. However, strategy — not speed — is often the name of the game. Most startups will need a viable product and proof of credibility before they can expect early-stage investors to really bite. Test the investor market. Try to get about 60 introductions.

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Up and Running

MAY 18, 2016

It’s packed full of interviews from successful founders and ultimately, will give you that platform from which you can grow. There’s a lot of advice online on how to get a venture capitalist to fund you, but much less on what it takes to get an angel investor to do as much. The great thing about this 91-page ebook?

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The Startup Magazine

JULY 20, 2021

The company’s founders struggled to meet with demand and order fulfillment suffered. Betancourt Lopez put together a group of investors, including Félix Ruiz and Hugo Arévalo, who were the founders of Tuenti, a social networking app. They created a Kickstarter campaign that raised nearly €190,000 from 9,000 supporters.

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Austin Startup

NOVEMBER 29, 2017

Tim O’Reilly, Founder at O’Reilly Media and promoter of open source and Web 2.0 Let’s have a look at what early stage founders can expect in terms of oxygen. Namely, windfall revenue from oil means that the Texas taxman does not collect personal or corporate income taxes (on the state level).

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The Startup Magazine

NOVEMBER 13, 2018

At this year’s FUND Conference in Chicago, Illinois, over 100 startups presented their early-stage companies in front of hundreds of investors and industry leaders. FUND is a national connector of entrepreneurs, VCs, angel investors, and industry experts with a focus on deal flow and making connections. Sounds like a great team.

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Duct Tape Marketing

JULY 27, 2023

He is the founder of Nudge, an analytics company, that was a commercialized product from his agency. By investing in other companies, they can learn from other founders, gain exposure to new sectors, and understand emerging trends. Questions I ask Ben Young: [02:26] What do you mean by investing in other businesses?

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Up and Running

FEBRUARY 22, 2013

If you’re raising money for your company and you want to pitch to angel investors or venture capitalists , then there are a few important things to know that savvy investors care about. This should automatically be included in your pitch presentation anyway.

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