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Startup Business Investments Around The World

YoungUpstarts

A number of platforms that cater to startup players provide information, research, funding, and mentoring to help you locate and connect with investors, as well as launch your business eventually. Angel Networks. You can search for angel networks by area and platform type. Professional Social Networking Sites.

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Timing: When to raise seed funding.

Scalable Startup

High growth startup companies need seed money to get things going. This can either come from the founder(s) own bank account or from outside investors. They need the money to rent offices, hire staff, and establish their initial presence (website, incorporation, marketing). They risk money they can afford to lose.

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Why Kickstarter and crowdfunding can’t replace traditional investors

The Next Web

Editor’s note: This is a guest post by Aaron Pitman , an angel investor and founder and partner of RA Domain Capital. So why shouldn’t you skip traditional investors and take your business plan straight to the people? Are traditional investors really that great when you can leverage your social networks for cash?

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The Series A crunch is hitting now. Have we even noticed?

pandodaily.com

I’ve been hearing about the so-called Series A Crunch for at least six months, and in recent weeks, I’ve spoken with more than 20 venture capitalists, angel investors, incubator heads, lawyers, and other necessary cogs in the ecosystem trying to get some details about it. On November 28, 2012. November 29, 2012.

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VC Seed Funding is Dead, Long Live VC Seed Funding!

Both Sides of the Table

.&# And I think this line of thinking has started to become conventional wisdom as outlined in Chris Dixon’s excellent blog post saying that you need to be careful raising seed money from a large VC fund. I do think you need to be careful with funds that have done 20-30 seeds deals in fairly rapid succession.