The Northwest Energy Angels invited me to Seattle to talk about exit strategies for Angel investors. The full video and Q&A from that talk is online in full 720p High Def. Some of the highlights include: Organized angel investing is still quite new - only ten or twelve years old. The video is online here MORE >>

The Center for Venture Research at the University of New Hampshire just released its report on angel funding activity for the first half of 2011. During the first half of this year, angel investments totaled $8.9 What does this mean in terms of number of companies funded by angels, and the number of angel investors? MORE >>

Getting funding from angel investors is the same way. Because the most important time you spend influencing potential investors is done long before you present to them, even long before you even contact them; it's done when you prepare your company for funding. And then, you'll be able to raise all the angel funding you need. MORE >>

1000 Startup Flowers in Continuous Bloom = Destruction of VC The Zen of Poke: A Facebook Story Creating Engaging & Viral Facebook Apps (Stanford / BayCHI video, 12/07) 7 Steps to Your Facebook Strategy (TechCrunch) The Other World-Dominating Platform: Google Analytics User Engagement: Depth, not a Breadth, metric Facebook isnt AOL; its Visual Basic. MORE >>

You see, while you can market products or services pretty much anywhere, in the United States there are many laws the regulate the sale of securities, mainly the stock in your company that you may want to sell to individual or "angel" investors. When you find angel investors this way, you get what we call "smart money." MORE >>