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Feb. 28, Stamford, CT: HBS Event on Angel Investing 101 – Best Practices

David Teten

Balloch’s 20+ year career prior to becoming an angel investor was in financial services both in the private equity world- fundraising and investor relations, and in investment banking. Susan Balloch is a Managing Director of Golden Seeds, an angel fund that invests in early stage companies founded or led by women.

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Transcript of How to Turn Your Product Idea Into a Business

Duct Tape Marketing

At the same time, technology, even the internet alone, were making it possible for better products than ever to get created from small companies. But assuming without a big budget it’s going to be more about sweat equity and putting in the time to create great content. So there was a misfit in the market and a big opportunity.

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Where To Find The Most Angels To Fund Your Startup

Startup Professionals Musings

With today’s access to the Internet, and Google searches, it really isn’t that hard. This is another very popular website for raising equity or debt investments for startups. It won’t help your case or your workload to do an email blast and follow-up with 250,000 members around the world. New England Investment Network.

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Start Here if You are Looking for Angel Investors

Startup Professionals Musings

With today’s access to the Internet, and Google searches, it really isn’t that hard. This is another very popular website for raising equity or debt investments for startups. It won’t help your case or your workload to do an email blast and follow-up with 250,000 members around the world. New England Investment Network.

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Invest in Israel Newsletter – June 2012 Edition

VC Cafe

Redwood City, California’s Shutterfly, a leading internet-based social expression and personal publishing service, has acquired Israel’s Photoccino , a developer of groundbreaking technologies for photo ranking, analysis and organization. Stanley is headquartered in New Britain, Connecticut, USA.

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From Nothing To Something. How To Get There.

techcrunch.com

Here’s the rub: in consumer internet (and often enterprise), if your founding team doesn’t have the chops to get a prototype of your product out and in the hands of a blogger to test and write about, you might as well save yourself a lot of pain – you’re not going anywhere. I don’t know any developers. I need money for the servers.

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29 Entrepreneurs Explain Why They Started Their Business

Hearpreneur

However, as most entrepreneurs will experience, when equity and pay come into play, relationships tend to warp. So as a result, out of the basement of my house with NO money and only a hand-me-down laptop, cell phone, and borrowed internet connection from my neighbor, my business partner and I created Quality Logo Products.