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10 Action Items to Keep Angel Investors Hovering

Startup Professionals Musings

Every new startup I know dreams of being funded early by one of the 318,000 active Angel investors in the USA alone. Most of these investors are members of Angel groups that have a rigorous filtering and screening process, to select the top 3% and most fundable proposals. Get your Internet domain name and website.

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Top Ten Action Items For Angel Funding Success

Startup Professionals Musings

Every new startup I know dreams of being funded by an angel investor. Get your Internet domain name and website. Investors routinely go to candidate web sites to get a feel for the tone and scope of the company, as well as its maturity and offerings. Reserve the company name on social networks to protect it.

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10 Preparation Steps to Win an Angel Investment

Startup Professionals Musings

Every new startup I know dreams of being funded by an angel investor. Get your Internet domain name and website. Investors routinely go to candidate web sites to get a feel for the tone and scope of the company, as well as its maturity and offerings. Reserve the company name on social networks to protect it.

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10 Action Items to Keep Angel Investors Hovering

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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. Get your Internet domain name and website. Reserve the company name on social networks to protect it. Define some intellectual property.

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10 Entrepreneur Milestones That Make Funding Easy

Startup Professionals Musings

Funding for pre-revenue startups used to be the domain of angel investors, but they have moved up-stage. Without revenue, your investors are largely limited to friends, family and fools. File a provisional patent, register a trademark, and reserve your company domain names. Register some intellectual property.

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10 Keys to Startup Traction That Investors Look For

Startup Professionals Musings

Funding for pre-revenue startups used to be the domain of angel investors, but they have moved up-stage. Without revenue, your investors are largely limited to friends, family and fools. File a provisional patent, register a trademark, and reserve your company domain names. Register some intellectual property.

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Is gust.com a difficult platform to replicate?

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A quick look at the really nice sites developed in just a few months by companies like CircleUp, FundersClub, Bolstr, Seedrs, et al will show you that the base technical challenge of creating a marketplace/social network is not particularly difficult.

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