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Venture Capitalists, Super Angels and the State of Startup Funding

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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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Venture Capitalists, Super Angels and the State of Startup Funding

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a part of an exciting team, building web applications such as social networking, ecommerce, games, sports, contact management, CMS and more.Re. View more jobs » Len Williams Angels, super-angels, venture capitalists and micro-VCs - they all have their advantages and disadvantages. Companies like GrowPublic, Inc.

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Lessons Learned: The lean startup

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For example, one angel investor reportedly invested in several hundred social networking ventures employing this philosophy. That being said, I do see problems with the conventional wisdom especially in the valley with your technical vision, which then creates economic problems. Take a look and let me know what you think.

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ProfessorVC: Why I Hate Convertible Debt.Let Me Count the Ways

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My partner in Menlo Incubator , Gary Kremen , and I had a recent debate on which one of us hates convertible debt more. I thought about doing this in a top 10 format, but will limit to my top 3 reasons: Misalignment of incentives - As an angel investor I want to do everything I can to help the entrepreneur succeed. ProfessorVC.

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ProfessorVC: Can Entrepreneurship Be Taught?

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I'm doing a new academic experiment now - an incubator at Menlo College where we are bringing the start-ups to campus and giving the students an opportunity to see how they develop and work as interns. Don't Stop Believin' Is There Any Truth in "The Social Network"? ► January. (1). 5 hours ago.

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ProfessorVC: A Lot of Horn Tooting over a Kazoo sized deal

Professor VC

I first contacted my friend, Manu Kumar, who incubated the company, coming up with the idea and finding the founders to build the product. I asked him how the deal came out for investors since the sale price was significantly lower than the valuation on the round they were raising when we met. What does it take to be an Angel Investor?

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9 Tips for Raising Startup Funds on AngelList

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Joshua Baer is the co-founder and CEO of Otherinbox , a prolific angel investor and the director of Capital Factory , Austin’s seed-stage incubator. Nobody cares that you got covered in TechCrunch , or that The New York Times blog picked up your press release. This list of top angel investors is a good start.