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Portfolio Management – Learning from experienced investors

NZ Entrepreneur

The Angel Association of New Zealand ( AANZ ) is co-hosting with New Zealand Growth Capital Partners ( NZGCP ) a series of workshops on early-stage investment. But what is the right way to diversify in practice, in the New Zealand context?

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Is gust.com a difficult platform to replicate?

Gust

When people would ask a similar question back then about the difficulty of software development, my usual response was “anyone can write a TAP program over a weekend that will work with 80% of the paging systems in the world…but getting it to work on the other 20% will take you a year.” despite having lots of competitors.

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Why Agency Owners Should Invest In Other Businesses

Duct Tape Marketing

Prior to Nudge, he co-founded an agency in New Zealand that was the 8th fastest-growing business at the time. Prior to Nudge, he co-founded an agency, a marketing agency in New Zealand that was the eighth fastest growing business at the time, and it was in that, that he started investing in today.

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2012 Valuation Survey of Angel Groups

Gust

Access to our 2010 and 2011 surveys can be found at 2011 Valuation Survey of North American Angel Investor Groups. We received data from thirty groups of the fifty angel groups from whom we requested data. Pre-revenue software, internet, mobile and telecom deals. Alliance of Angels (Seattle). Boise Angel Alliance.

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Finding Technical Cofounders Is Hard

rob.by

He argued that software engineers don’t finish what they start, and that you’re better off paying a technical person than partnering with one. Michael’s second problem comes from holding software engineers to an unprecedented standard of business savviness: Most software engineers aren’t business people.

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Twitter Link Roundup #152 – Small Business, Social Media, Design, Copywriting, Marketing And More

crowdSPRING Blog

Lessons from a top Angel Investor: Fabrice Grinda talks about his 100 early-stage investments – [link]. Air New Zealand honors ‘The Hobbit’ with preflight video – [link]. Legal Contracts for Software Developers Who Hate Contracts (w/free contract template to use today) – [link].

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How NZ entrepreneurs can up their capital raising game

NZ Entrepreneur

In the first of a three part series on early stage business investment, we asked serial entrepreneur and investor Josh Comrie what three key things New Zealand entrepreneurs must get better at when it comes to seeking angel investment. There are many in New Zealand (and abroad), and you’ll pay from $200-1000 per hour.