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How to Raise Startup Funding from Unlikely Angel Investors

Up and Running

Angel investors come from a variety of ages, backgrounds, and professions. I’m not your average angel. I’m not active in an angel group. I live in a small town surrounded by farms and I made my first angel investment at 29 because my dad said it was a good idea. So, who are these unlikely angels?

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7 Key Factors Obscure Your Customer Acquisition Costs

Startup Professionals Musings

As a business consultant and angel investor, I often ask for your own assessment of marketing ROI , or customer acquisition cost (CAC). It encompasses your marketing strategy used to attract, engage, and retain customers by creating and sharing relevant articles, videos, podcasts, and other media. Don’t forget it.

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How does someone get a meeting with angel investor David S. Rose?

Gust

and upload both your presentation (the version that doesn’t need you to come along with it), and a short (very short), elevator pitch video. Invested Interests Power Pitches angel investor business David Rose entrepreneur meeting pitch startup' But the good thing is that this is where you can call in some reinforcements.

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7 Indications Of Your Ability To Get Business Results

Startup Professionals Musings

As a startup mentor, I’m always amazed that some entrepreneurs seem to be an immediate hit with investors, while others struggle to get any attention at all. Finally I realized that venture capital and angel investors are actually humans, despite some views to the contrary.

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6 Lessons Most Entrepreneurs Only Learn On The Street

Startup Professionals Musings

That first burst of customers via word-of-mouth or a viral video won’t sustain your growth. Most investors I know have heard many passionate entrepreneurs chanting “ If we build it, they will come ” in lieu of a credible marketing plan. As an angel investor myself, I’ve often heard the argument that your solution has no competition.

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How important is a video pitch to investors for an early stage start-up?

Gust

If you are going around personally to talk to potential high net worth investor to whom you have an introduction, you probably don’t need a video. On the other hand, if your initial contact with a potential investor is online, then (at least in the US, although I assume elsewhere as well) a video can be very helpful.

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10 Quotes You Should Never Use Around A Business Plan

Startup Professionals Musings

If you are not in that rare category of known and proven entrepreneurs, you should avoid the following list of my top ten turnoffs that I have personally experienced as an angel investor. Teasing or spamming an investor is not the way to his pocketbook.