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What are the most valuable recommendations in order to raise money from VCs connected via Gust?

Gust

Browse through the many hundreds of video answers to startup questions that we’ve filmed from the world’s leading VCs and angels. Luminaries contributing to the Gust video library include Dave McClure , David Hornik , Esther Dyson , Howard L Morgan , Josh Kopelman , Mark Suster and many others.

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What the AngelList Debate Means for the Future of Startup Investing

www.readwriteweb.com

Quickly, startup investing is looking more like the public markets, and power is quickly shifting to the entrepreneur from the investors. AngelList is operating very much like the NASDAQ stock exchange of the startup investment world, where deals and angel investors are public. Just look at AngelList?s AngelList is a community.

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The Future of Startup Funding

www.paulgraham.com

The distribution of investors should mirrorthe distribution of startups, which has the usual power law dropoff.So One reasonstartups prefer series A rounds is that theyre more prestigious.But if angel investors become more active and better known, theyllincreasingly be able to compete with VCs in brand. Ditto for PayPal.

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Top 40 Startup Posts for August 2010

SoCal CTO

How I Think About Seed Investing As A VC - Feld Thoughts , August 2, 2010 Last week saw an explosion of discussion around seed investing, including plenty of negative comments around VCs as seed investors. While I agree that many VCs are crummy seed investors, I think there are some that are excellent seed investors. Developer.

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9 Tips for Raising Startup Funds on AngelList

mashable.com

Top Stories Photo & Video Galleries Top Lists Trending Topics Twitter YouTube Facebook iPhone Google Video More Topics. 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. If you have a good video pitch, include that too.

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ProfessorVC: The Most Important Venture Capital Statistic

Professor VC

This brought in a new set of prospective investors and required a lower investment from the lead investor as our existing investors were committed and on board. Our lead investor, Triangle Peak Partners closed on a $170 million first fund in late 2008. What does it take to be an Angel Investor?

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Raising $$ on AngelList? Working w/ McClure? Ask Jody Sherman

Both Sides of the Table

I was an angel investor in his company, made a bunch of calls on his behalf and then I personally sent it out on AngelList. We talk about all of this in the video. I hope that I at least defended Bryce’s point-of-view in the video (and in my previous post). I ask Naval about the importance of a lead investor.

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