Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 31, 2018

Most of you new venture founders I meet as an angel investor seem convinced that starting the business is the hardest part. As the Global Customer Growth Evangelist at Salesforce, with implementation roles at many other companies, she makes a host of relevant observations for every business owner.

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The Startup Magazine

NOVEMBER 28, 2018

The event presenter, FUND, is a national connector of entrepreneurs, VCs, angel investors, and industry experts with a focus on deal flow and making connections. The FUND Conference brings together over 100 startups to present their early-stage products and pitches in front of hundreds of investors and industry leaders.

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YoungUpstarts

JUNE 12, 2014

Several factors influenced my decision: We had a number of customers for our hosted solution, so we’d validated our idea and business model. Be ready to commit time to gathering funding from friends, family, banks, and angel investors. However, after 14 months, I decided it was time to take the leap.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 29, 2021

The Thunderbird School of Global Management, also in Phoenix, has a top-ranked International MBA and entrepreneur curriculum, a startup incubator program, and hosts a group of Angel investors to assist qualifying startups. They also provide incubator services and space for early startups.

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Up and Running

DECEMBER 18, 2013

Indiegogo is a free-to-join site that hosts fundraising efforts made by pretty much anyone with an idea to pitch. If you’re interested in angel investment…. CircleUp is an angel investor site dedicated exclusively to entrepreneurs with retail and consumer goods businesses. If you’re looking for a grant….

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Growthink Blog

MARCH 11, 2012

These other entrepreneurs can provide funding to you as "angel investors." They can introduce you to other angel investors they know. One of the key points I want to stress here is the answer to the question I get all the time: where do I go to find angel investors? Here's a killer tip: host your own event.

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The Next Web

SEPTEMBER 18, 2012

Anyway, the Rockstart startups have already been in the States for two weeks now, working out of RocketSpace and networking with VCs, angel investors and other startups in between mentorship sessions at Mozilla, Google, Blackbox, and the Dutch Consulate. Ideedock : a Q&A platform for employees in enterprises.

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Austin Startup

MAY 7, 2017

Tuesday, May 9: VentureCrush ATX (FREE) VentureCrush is a series of unique events and networks created by the Tech Group at Lowenstein Sandler to bring together carefully selected groups of tech industry founders and senior executives, along with VC, growth equity, private equity and angel investors. At Galvanize at 6:00 pm.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 3, 2016

Every entrepreneur I know has their favorite excuse for a previous failure – an investor backed out, the economy took a downturn, or a supplier delivered bad quality. Viral marketing costs real money, and your support staff and hosting systems cost even more. Assume passion level defines business opportunity.

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Austin Startup

AUGUST 7, 2017

Capital Factory focuses on hosting community programming that educates and inspires entrepreneurs, programmers, designers, and community leaders. Epic Office Hours” is a speed dating event with dozens of entrepreneurs, mentors and investors meeting in rapid fire. There is nothing more personalized, more intimate, or more impactful.

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View from Seed

AUGUST 26, 2015

A little under a year ago, we hosted an event called Angel Bootcamp that was a primer for folks thinking about getting into angel investing. Of late, I have had a number of friends who have recently become more active as angels and have been trying to track down some of the advice from the event. Other thoughts?

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View from Seed

AUGUST 26, 2015

A little under a year ago, we hosted an event called Angel Bootcamp that was a primer for folks thinking about getting into angel investing. Of late, I have had a number of friends who have recently become more active as angels and have been trying to track down some of the advice from the event. Other thoughts?

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 1, 2015

Every entrepreneur I know has their favorite excuse for a previous failure – an investor backed out, the economy took a downturn, or a supplier delivered bad quality. Viral marketing costs real money, and your support staff and hosting systems cost even more. Assume passion level defines business opportunity.

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Gust

JULY 12, 2012

The goal was to share our experiences in the realm of angel investing with an array of global audiences, by participating in various lectures, discussions and workshops. In all four countries we met passionate entrepreneurs who were eager to discuss their exciting startups, as well as angel investors looking to support them.

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Entrepreneurs-Journey.com by Yaro Starak

NOVEMBER 1, 2021

Author, lifestyle design pioneer, angel investor (Wealthfront, Uber, Facebook, Twitter, Alibaba, Shopify, Duolingo), peak performance bio hacker, accelerated learning leader and of course, podcast host. Tim Ferriss needs no introduction.

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David Teten

AUGUST 15, 2013

For example, Qualcomm Ventures hosts an international business plan competition called QPrize , which targets mobile technology startups. Amazon hosts an annual startup challenge for companies using Amazon Web Services (AWS). 4) Accelerators. SAP also has a dedicated fund for startups using HANA.

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YoungUpstarts

NOVEMBER 10, 2015

This is a relatively small and exclusive club thus lacks diversity, as a result produces a lot of “sameness” and blind spots that Silicon Valley investors are increasingly being criticized for. Venture Capitalist have investors as well. As a result, building a product isn’t the hard part.

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Gust

FEBRUARY 22, 2014

As such, it requires that from the outset the platform be cognizant of, and able to deal effectively with, a host of different entities, combinations of entities, relationships, combinations of relationships, languages, currencies, regulatory requirements and combinations thereof, and tons of other stuff.

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Reid Hoffman

DECEMBER 10, 2020

Finally, one of Airbnb’s angel investors, who’s very smart and whom I respect a lot, reached out to me and said, “Hey, you should really look at this. Thus, it’s important that hosts keep their windows clean. From an economic standpoint, Airbnb could have found a way to divide the pain between the guests and hosts.

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Austin Startup

JULY 18, 2018

Mellie Price , our Director of Diversity & Inclusion, helped create and host the Austin Community Inclusion Council. Our events team has a directive to try and host every diversity related event that we can and to support them in any way possible. We try to make sure everyone else knows it, too.

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Austin Startup

MARCH 19, 2017

Five entrepreneurs get free plane tickets to pitch for $100,000 in seed funding from Austin’s top angel investors Every week we meet incredible entrepreneurs from all over the country and all over the world who would move to Austin if they only had some funding. This April, one startup is going to get their chance!

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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 11, 2016

Actively involved in the local startup community, Brian is a Startup Weekend Columbus host and MC at the monthly morning pitch event for entrepreneurs, WakeUp StartUp. Seen was recognized as the “Innovation Game Changer” at the 2012 Ohio Interactive Awards. .

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Up and Running

SEPTEMBER 11, 2014

Thinking of a business plan as a formal, long, “stuffy” document is old-school, and we’ve heard time and time again from the likes of angel investors and venture capitalists that most people just don’t read the business plan. As a business planning resource ourselves, we can’t help but agree. Turn to your state.

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YoungUpstarts

JUNE 5, 2019

Angel investors. An angel investor is an accredited investor who uses his or her own money to invest in a small business. Not just anyone can be an angel investor, though. I myself have served as an angel investor for some companies. Self-funding or “bootstrapping.”.

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Gust

DECEMBER 21, 2011

The Valley produces world-class entrepreneurs, angel investors, venture capitalists and successful high-tech companies – all growing and creating jobs on one relatively small peninsula. It hosts an environment which many other communities have attempted to emulate, although they haven’t and won’t.

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SiliconHills

MAY 2, 2019

May 1-2 FUND Conference When: May 1st and May 2nd Where: Fairmount Hotel in Downtown Austin Why: FUND Conference hosts an event in Austin annually to promote connections among entrepreneurs, VCs, angel investors, and industry experts. It features panel discussions on a variety of topics, exhibits, and networking. For more info.

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mashable.com

OCTOBER 16, 2010

View more jobs » Len Williams Angels, super-angels, venture capitalists and micro-VCs - they all have their advantages and disadvantages. A lot of companies used angel investors money to get off the ground and subsequently turned to VCs for following rounds. Companies like GrowPublic, Inc.

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mashable.com

OCTOBER 16, 2010

View more jobs » Len Williams Angels, super-angels, venture capitalists and micro-VCs - they all have their advantages and disadvantages. A lot of companies used angel investors money to get off the ground and subsequently turned to VCs for following rounds. Companies like GrowPublic, Inc.

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Austin Startup

MAY 2, 2017

Catapulting Deep Learning Discoveries As an active angel investor and advisor, I derive huge energy from the startup journey. as a hosted sandbox or as an enterprise software solution. In the end, IMPACT is what matters. And wow, Bitfusion is on that road. Bitfusion Flex is available in Beta today on Bitfusion.io

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crowdSPRING Blog

FEBRUARY 14, 2019

There are self-hosted open-source e-commerce services available that allow you to use your own uniquely branded website with their e-commerce functionality. Things used to be more straightforward: venture capitalists and angel investors were the most common options. Angel Investors and Venture Capitalists.

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Scalable Startup

JULY 20, 2013

The software just doesn’t leave it’s cloud hosts anymore. Angel Investor early stage founder Hawaii SaaS Scalability startup startup CEO Tom Nora angel investor CEOing first revenue leadership software Software Development The Next Level tom nora twitter venture capital' You know it will happen. >

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 23, 2018

From his leadership consulting with a host of companies, clunky and innovative, he explains why owners and executives fall into traps of inertia and he details the critical pragmatic leadership skills needed to regain the required momentum. The result is a business damaged past the point of recovery, instead of just dented.

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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 11, 2016

Actively involved in the local startup community, Brian is a Startup Weekend Columbus host and MC at the monthly morning pitch event for entrepreneurs, WakeUp StartUp. Seen was recognized as the “Innovation Game Changer” at the 2012 Ohio Interactive Awards. .

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YoungUpstarts

MARCH 3, 2020

The next group I would look to are angel investors. Angel investors are individuals who invest their own money in companies at early / startup stages. In every large city, there tends to be a few groups of angel investors loosely operating through a network that pass around business presentations and plans.

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Austin Startup

NOVEMBER 29, 2017

Consequently, the city has now built up a respectable pool of angel investors that have not only the cash, but also the scars, wits, and friends to lift you off. Other than angels, there are a handful of more organised early stage funders around. And when you move to Texas, the only destination to consider is Austin.

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crowdSPRING Blog

JANUARY 25, 2010

In March, Ross and I will be hosting a talk at South by Southwest; it’s called “ Third Coast: How to be a Startup Outside of Silicon Valley.&# We have been thinking a lot about this lately and discussing the challenges we have faced on our own path.

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Rob Go

SEPTEMBER 7, 2011

Founder Dialogues : Eric Paley plays talk show host on this recurring fireside chat style event with Boston area founders. Andy Payne – OpenMarket, Fansnap, angel investor ( blog , @payne92 ). Bill Warner – Avid, Techstars, Angel investor ( blog , @billwarner ).

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