Up and Running

AUGUST 12, 2014

In as much as a scheduled interview with an angel investor can be, talking with Boris about what it takes to spark the interest of a venture capital firm was a coincidence. ” At present, Version One Ventures portfolio includes startups from all over the United States and Canada. The post Got "Founder Fit?

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The Next Web

JANUARY 27, 2013

While the latter is not yet legal in the United States, the JOBS Act, which was signed into law in April 2012, mandates that the SEC makes it legal by January 1st of 2013. Crowdfunding is the process of raising capital by offering rewards to ‘backers’ by pre-selling your product or offering equity in exchange.

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Growthink Blog

OCTOBER 13, 2011

What does this mean in terms of number of companies funded by angels, and the number of angel investors? Well, the study estimated that 26,300 entrepreneurs received angel funding during the first half of 2011. And the number of angel investors who funded these companies: a whopping 124,900 individuals.

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Austin Startup

MARCH 4, 2019

For more information, visit atxstartupcrawl.com SXSW Pitch (formerly SXSW Accelerator) SXSW Pitch is the official SXSW platform to allow early stage technology startups to pitch their product and/or services to industry technology experts, high profiled media personnel, and Venture Capitalists / Angel Investors.

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Berkonomics

JUNE 26, 2014

Angel investors, particularly those in organized angel groups, are typically former entrepreneurs who have had successful liquidity events in their pasts, or executives of companies who’ve retired with the funds from their stock options.

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Up and Running

OCTOBER 4, 2017

Rose of Gust, roughly 1,500 startups get funded by venture capitalists, and 50,000 by angel investors in the United States each year. Many of these failed startups created a product nobody needed or wanted. According to David S. No wonder that the niche is still so attractive, despite being so overcrowded.

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Gust

FEBRUARY 22, 2014

As we end 2012, Gust is the official, exclusive platform of virtually every national federation of business angels in the world including the United States, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, Ireland, Scotland, France, Portugal, Spain, Russia, Belarus, Kazakhstan, India, even China, all in their native languages.

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Gust

JULY 12, 2012

The goal was to share our experiences in the realm of angel investing with an array of global audiences, by participating in various lectures, discussions and workshops. In all four countries we met passionate entrepreneurs who were eager to discuss their exciting startups, as well as angel investors looking to support them.

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Up and Running

AUGUST 19, 2014

Got a question for one of the angel investors mentioned below? Today is Ask an Angel day! Tips from real angel investors about how to impress them and stand out from the crowd. Many angels are entrepreneurs themselves, or executives and business or community leaders. How Angels Invest.

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K9 Ventures

SEPTEMBER 24, 2009

I came to the United States in 1992 at the age of 17 (so there, now you know exactly how old I am!) Fortunately, I was accepted into the program and that allowed me to legally stay in the United States. What has worked for the United States for so long is that these people gravitate towards the United States.

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The Next Web

SEPTEMBER 18, 2012

Anyway, the Rockstart startups have already been in the States for two weeks now, working out of RocketSpace and networking with VCs, angel investors and other startups in between mentorship sessions at Mozilla, Google, Blackbox, and the Dutch Consulate.

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Up and Running

MAY 16, 2016

To supplement this guide, I interviewed an expert in the home health care field: Carol Byrne is the National Sales Director for 21st Century Health Care Consultants, a consulting firm which serves home health care agencies throughout the United States. The state of the home health care industry around the world: .

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Gust

JANUARY 4, 2012

Many thanks to David Rose , Ilana Grossman , Justin Stanwix , and the whole Gust team for making the Gust Blog such a valuable platform and resource for entrepreneurs and angel investors. I’m proud to contribute to the effort and always enjoy reading what the other authors have to say.

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David Teten

JANUARY 9, 2013

Partners for a New Beginning (PNB), a public-private partnership housed at the Aspen Institute, is organizing a Venture Capital, Private Equity and Angel Investor Delegation from the Maghreb. Moderator: Kris Balderston, Special Representative for Global Partnerships, United States Department of State.

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Austin Startup

NOVEMBER 29, 2017

My visit took place courtesy of the Young Transatlantic Innovative Leaders Initiative (YTILI), a State Department program implemented by the German Marshall Fund of the United States. If you’ve just exited or realised stock options from a Silicon Valley success story, moving out of state is worthwhile.

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Up and Running

FEBRUARY 16, 2022

Many startups and businesses dream of landing funding from angel investors and venture capital. Women-owned businesses represent about one-third of all small businesses in the United States. However, very few businesses ever acquire venture capital funds. . The changing face of entrepreneurs and business owners.

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YoungUpstarts

FEBRUARY 6, 2017

However, being able to say, “I’m at $400,000 on a $500,000 raise, and we’ve got room for one or two more investors,” is a powerful statement to a prospective angel investor since most investors love to be part of an oversubscribed round. Additionally, be specific in your financial numbers.

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YoungUpstarts

AUGUST 6, 2012

Dysonics secured $750,000 in funding from angel investors to develop products that will reproduce three-dimensional, immersive sound in headphones. This year, the ETTC graduated its first company, Dysonics, a startup based on audio technology research. Harvard Innovation Lab.

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crowdSPRING Blog

MAY 30, 2013

During that time, I counseled and represented clients (from small businesses to internet startups to Fortune 100 companies) in transactional matters and in complex trials all over the United States. I’ve set at the table as a lawyer, and now, over the past six years, have the perspective of an entrepreneur and small business owner.

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The Next Web

JUNE 27, 2013

Arjun also serves as a member of the Young Entrepreneur Council, an LP at 500Startups, and is an angel investor and advisor to multiple Silicon Valley startups. Entrepreneur Insider United States Profiles and Interviews' Real Estate, and an investment banker specializing in the technology sector at Jefferies Broadview.

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YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 28, 2017

Rescue works with law enforcement agencies at the federal, state and local levels to help arrest those who violate children’s rights in the United States and other places around the world. Andrew McCubbins has also been an Angel investor who has helped several startups with his wisdom and resources.

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Berkonomics

MARCH 9, 2017

The Angel Resource Institute (ARI) recently published a study conducted by well-respected Rob Wiltbank, quoting that seventy percent of investments made by angel investors to date return less than the amount invested – upon a sale or closing of the business – the great majority of these outright losses as businesses die.

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The Next Web

JUNE 26, 2013

Arjun also serves as a member of the Young Entrepreneur Council, an LP at 500Startups, and is an angel investor and advisor to multiple Silicon Valley startups. Entrepreneur United States News' Real Estate, and an investment banker specializing in the technology sector at Jefferies Broadview. ET (12 p.m.

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YoungUpstarts

DECEMBER 31, 2018

Sferra followed this by spending two years at Pinetree Capital, a small-cap focused firm and an angel investor in the mining, energy and technology sectors. Of course, the United States remains a unique challenge. They were startups just six years ago and some have already evolved into multi-billion dollar companies.

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Growthink Blog

SEPTEMBER 15, 2011

Within the past week I have learned about two new programs to help entrepreneurs raise funding from individual or angel investors. It is every entrepreneur's dream to submit a business plan online and have investors magically appear and write them big funding checks. Which leads me to the key word in raising angel investments.

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Pascal's View

OCTOBER 9, 2013

Establishing a mutual understanding between investors and entrepreneurs as to what each expects from the other is essential to a harmonious beginning for a new venture. It is a tribute to America’s innovation culture that, while most startups fail, we are currently experiencing such a boom in seed financing in the United States.

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Growthink Blog

MARCH 12, 2013

For example, if you require $250,000 in funding, angel investors are more applicable then venture capitalists. Angel Investors Angel Investors are individuals like friends and family members; you just don't know them (yet). Most of these angel investors are not members of angel groups.

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Austin Startup

APRIL 23, 2018

We provide these startups with coworking space, hosting credits, investor relations, and access to a mentor network of the top entrepreneurs and angel investors in Texas. According to Pitchbook, Capital Factory has been the most active investor in Texas since 2013.

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The Startup Magazine

JUNE 21, 2017

www.brookings.edu/researchaccelerating-growth-startup-accelerator-programs-in-the-united-states/. The processes can culminate into a demo-day pitch tied to gaining sources of capital from banks, angel investors or a fund. . Mentoring is often provided and is sometimes offered by university alumni.

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The Next Web

DECEMBER 31, 2013

While entrepreneurship and startups have spread tremendously in Europe, a lot of aspiring young entrepreneurs leave Europe for the United States. From my interactions with them, the United States’ gravitational pull is only getting stronger. So, what can Europe do about it?

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Steve Blank

JUNE 15, 2011

In the stealth phase , prescient angel investors and Venture Capitalists (VCs) start investing in an industry or market segment that others have not yet found. Some precursors to the bubble happened when Chinese Internet companies listed on United States stock exchanges. billion at the end of the first day (on $58.9

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ReadWriteStart

JUNE 12, 2012

But while receiving an infusion of cash from a venture capitalist or angel investor is certainly a good thing, it doesn’t necessarily mean your company’s money problems are over. As Karen Mills, the administrator of the Small Business Administration points out, nearly 96% of the world’s consumers live outside the United States.

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Feld Thoughts

SEPTEMBER 1, 2010

Following is a post on super angels I wrote yesterday for PEHub. In the beginning, there were angel investors. As individual angel investors made more and more investments, they became super angels. And so the super angels became micro-VCs (or “institutionalized super angels”). And it was good.

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Up and Running

SEPTEMBER 19, 2014

Small Business Administration loans are often one of the first places that small business owners in the United States think of looking for a loan, and they’re right to. Angel Investment: Angel investors can be a great financing option for the right business. CrowdFunding. BootStrapping. Microloans.

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YoungUpstarts

NOVEMBER 1, 2011

It will also feature several DEMO alumni companies from the United States. “We Singapore is the second country in Asia to host a DEMO event after China, and the event will comprise of conferences, pitches and networking sessions for an invited group of companies to launch their products for the first time to an audience.

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YoungUpstarts

MARCH 31, 2016

First from the corporate sector within Battelle – and then regionally, building innovation and startup support systems in Oklahoma, Ohio and advising several regions of the United States and the United Kingdom. He’s formed multiple venture capital funds, founded angel groups, and is an angel investor.

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The Startup Magazine

AUGUST 11, 2017

With the insight, resolve, and patience he shows with young companies, he demonstrates why angel investors earn the “angel” label. Its hallmark is an emphasis on the United States’ relations with the Asia-Pacific region.

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