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How to Raise Startup Funding from Unlikely Angel Investors

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I don’t have an MBA and I don’t live in Silicon Valley. According to the Angel Capital Association: Angels (private money) invest in 55,000 startups each year versus 1,500 companies by VC (venture capital) funding. Angels invest in one out of every forty deals they review (2.5%) versus the one out of 400 by VC’s (0.25%).

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On the Road to Recap:

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While not obvious on the surface, there has been a fundamental sea-change in the investment community that has made the incremental Unicorn investment a substantially more dangerous and complicated practice. In Q1 of 2016 there were zero VC-backed technology IPOs. The typical Silicon Valley term sheet does not include such terms.

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