Transformify

APRIL 15, 2016

The political instability and poverty are probably the leading factors keeping VCs and Business Angels away. Here are a few success stories of business angels, investors and managers who dared to invest their time and cash ( source: [link]. Mbwana Alliy Founder and Managing Partner at Savannah Fund.

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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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Gust

JUNE 19, 2012

Now, with open source software components, and low-cost development tools, the same job can be done by one good hacker for a few thousand dollars. Angel Investor , Frontier Angel Fund. Managing Partner , Tangent Capital. Hundreds of tips from top investors. Our bloggers. Founder , Palo Alto Software.

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Version One Ventures

MARCH 20, 2014

In the design phase, we believe that hardware engineering will follow a similar path as the open source software community that built GitHub. Version One is co-leading this investment with Golden Venture Partners, and joined by several angel investors.

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The Equity Kicker

JULY 30, 2013

Union Square Ventures partner Albert Wenger wrote a post yesterday about the disruption of venture capital which lists the changes afoot: Information about VCs on the internet. Angel investing has grown – wealth creation in the internet bubble massively increased the number of angel investors, particularly outside Silicon Valley.

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mashable.com

MAY 9, 2011

He is a serial entrepreneur, internationally syndicated columnist, angel investor, public speaker and author of the best-selling book Never Get a “Real&# Job: How To Dump Your Boss, Build a Business and Not Go Broke. Have an account? Reproduction without explicit permission is prohibited.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 13, 2013

In the few days I was in China I met with several VC’s, angel investors, business press and spoke to hundreds of entrepreneurs. Beijing Venture/Angel Ecosystem. While Beijing has VC’s and Angel investors happy to write a check there aren’t as many angels/VCs in China versus US per capita. In the U.S.

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www.quora.com

JANUARY 16, 2011

looking for good samples with founder friendly terms 11 Answers Mark Suster , Venture Capitalist, Angel investor & 72 votes by Ty Danco , Brandon Wu , Jen Cheng , (more) Ty Danco , Brandon Wu , Jen Cheng , Anon User, Chris Stewart , Tristan Louis , Ravi Kannan , Vin Turk , Shane Lennon , Nicholas Swanson , Sachin Agarwal , Mircea Pa?

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Steve Blank

APRIL 13, 2013

In the few days I was in China I met with several VC’s, angel investors, business press and spoke to hundreds of entrepreneurs. Beijing Venture/Angel Ecosystem. While Beijing has VC’s and Angel investors happy to write a check there aren’t as many angels/VCs in China versus US per capita. In the U.S.

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crowdSPRING Blog

FEBRUARY 11, 2019

Find partners or investors. See section 9 below to learn how to find a partner or investors.). 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. How to Find Partners or Investors.

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Startup Company Lawyer

MARCH 14, 2010

After the recent announcement of the Series Seed Financing documents by Marc Andreesen, Brad Feld points out that there are now four sets of “open source&# equity seed financing documents: TechStars Model Seed Funding Documents (by Cooley). Y Combinator Series AA Equity Financing Documents (by WSGR).

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David Teten

DECEMBER 3, 2019

But, most of use raise capital and source deals the same way people looked for dates 20 years ago: by networking at conferences (or bars). . But in business, you want a lot of partners. In the private equity universe, most Partners have primary training as deal-makers, not as managers. Most of us want one spouse and we’re done.

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discuss.joelonsoftware.com

NOVEMBER 1, 2010

Make sure you treat people as partners, not as paid help. Equity partners need to have a hand in guiding the enterprise. Andrew Badera Thursday, October 09, 2008 Deleting … Approving … I quite agree, Andrew, that the equity partners need to have a hand in guiding the enterprise. The gist: 1. Go to user groups.

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mashable.com

SEPTEMBER 14, 2011

and China, and recently recorded their 1,000,000th download of Bonita Open Solution. If you’re working with an open source project, for example, it’s important that you have a definitive business model to drive revenue — though not at the cost of alienating your community of core contributors.

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mashable.com

MAY 5, 2011

Partners W3 EDGE Concentric Sky Rackspace Intridea Dynect DNS Webtrends Global Syndication Partners ABCNews CNN Forbes Metro USAToday Yahoo ©2005-2011 Mashable, Inc. Have an account? Reproduction without explicit permission is prohibited.

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mashable.com

NOVEMBER 2, 2011

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. First you’ll want to find a lead investor — someone many other investors will recognize and respect. This list of top angel investors is a good start.

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www.women2.org

MARCH 8, 2012

I first spent time trying to build it myself leveraging open source tools, applying my skills from a single CS class, and trying to be an autodidactic coder. Then, what’s missing — clearly an engineer — and why do I want a partner? Prior to that, she worked in venture capital at OpenView Venture Partners.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 10, 2011

In my ongoing quest to get you good transcripts of the wonderful interviews we’ve done in the past, I present you with one amazing interview here with Tom McInerney – a friend, co-investor, former entrepreneur turned angel investor and “wizard of Oz&# behind the scenes at the uber hot startup Klout.

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mashable.com

SEPTEMBER 12, 2011

After all, high-quality open source software is free, the cloud makes computer power far less expensive, and anyone with an Internet connection can learn Ruby and CSS. Early-stage seed and angel investors all realize that a business will encounter a huge range of flux very rapidly. Have an account? All Rights Reserved.

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www.chubbybrain.com

SEPTEMBER 28, 2011

The negativity either impacted investment funding (venture capital fell off a cliff in 2009) or the customers they were targeted as was the case for Untitled Partners who were building a platform for fractional art ownership. We were obviously wrong about Untitled Partners’ ability to grow through the subsequent downturn. #19

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mashable.com

NOVEMBER 3, 2010

Mashable Mashable reached out to angels, seed stage investors and VC firm partners and asked them to share their wisdom with the rest of us. The Investors In researching this post, we solicited the advice of a number of investors. What follows is the best advice and tips from these interviews.

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Kodorra

AUGUST 23, 2018

Oh and by the way, typically angel investors don’t sign NDA (non-disclosure agreement), so they are most probably losing out on the cash too. Mistake – Choosing the Wrong Partner or Co-Founder. Your partner is most probably your good-old friend that you feel comfortable hanging out with. Let me guess.

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techcrunch.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

In Meebo’s case, for example, I was lucky enough to partner up with Elaine and Sandy. No looking for partnerships (who’s going to partner with you anyway?). Trust me, once you’ve launched and achieved traction, you’ll have your pick of mentors, VCs, partners and all the legal expenses you need. Partner up? No legal muck.

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Scalable Startup

FEBRUARY 1, 2013

Number one is, a lot of companies need to actually educate their customers or their partners, and a lot of that has to happen online. They are the place where all the open source code increasingly lives. All other code increasingly uses a ton of open source code. He is an active member of the blogging community.

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Austin Startup

MARCH 7, 2018

Austin Diversity Evangelists Mellie Price Director of Diversity Capital Factory Managing Director, Health CoLab Dell Medical School Mellie Price is a successful entrepreneur, angel investor, venture capitalist, and now university commercialization disruption at the Dell Medical School at the University of Texas.

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blog.expensify.com

APRIL 24, 2012

You need to hear this from someone who has used.Net extensively, and then happily walked away from it to go open source: You are a wanker. And before you say.net is only for windows, checkout https://github.com/mono , it’s not an open source application. It’s an *freaking open source*.net

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This is going to be BIG.

MAY 10, 2010

Building good relationships with the right people, playing nice in the sandbox, that’s just like minimum to be able to hire—because it reflects on the kind of partner you’ll be. #2 I mean, they spend all sorts of pro-bono hours contributing to open source projects, right? 2 Work on a technically interesting project.

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steveblank.com

JULY 8, 2011

interactions, widgets, effects Django – high-level Python framework Cappuccino – open source framework for app development Kodingen – cloud development environment, code editor, hosting service, collaboration platform.

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www.quora.com

JANUARY 16, 2011

It is also true that open source and the commoditization of many technologies has put much more emphasis on experience. Distribution/sales guy-Has an awesome understanding of the industry and product and can sell the vision and problem you are solving to investors, users, and potential partners. (he

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www.vccafe.com

MARCH 11, 2013

VC Cafe highlights everything you need to know from hosting your code in hackathons to open source legal docs. High Quality, and open sourced! Mantis (Open source). Nagios (open source). Panda (Open source). launchpad (bzr only, also only open source projects).

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