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ProfessorVC: What does it take to be an Angel Investor?

Professor VC

ProfessorVC. The last blogger in Silicon Valley. Thursday, May 29, 2008. What does it take to be an Angel Investor? This is often a tough question to answer. To the SEC, it means that you are an accredited investor and To the man (or woman) on the street, a minimum qualification would seem to be an interest and ability to invest in early stage ventures.

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Mozy (aka how not to backup your files)

Jason Ball

I posted a great review of Mozy 12 months ago. I even used the word "snazzy" I just cancelled my account with them. I absolutely DO NOT recommend their backup service. (Please be warned, a rant follows.). <rant> My MacBook Pro hard drive failed earlier this year and I needed to restore from my Mozy backup. After following their restore procedure, it became apparent that many, many GB of information were missing.

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Web 2.0 companies not producing cash?

Eric Friedman

FT has an interesting look at “web 2.0″ companies and how they are not producing cash. The shortage of revenue among social networks, blogs and other “social media” sites that put user-generated content and communications at their core has persisted despite more than four years of experimentation aimed at turning such sites into money-makers.

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Raising capital and meeting expectations

BeyondVC

What I like to tell portfolio companies is that on average it will take 6 months to raise capital with some cycles being shorter and some being longer. Given that, it is imperative for a company to start thinking about its next round well ahead of time and the milestones it needs to hit to have the right momentum to get potential investors excited. One area that I would like to caution entrepreneurs is being too aggressive on the milestones and revenue forecast, particularly in the near term.

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Building Healthy Innovation Ecosystems for Your Projects

Speaker: Nick Noreña, Innovation Coach and Advisor, Kromatic

Every startup and innovation project exists within an ecosystem that either helps or hurts that project. As innovation managers, we need to keep a pulse of that ecosystem and make sure we're helping those innovation projects we're managing every step of the way. In this webinar, Nick Noreña will walk through an Innovation Ecosystem Model that he and his team at Kromatic have developed to help investors, heads of product, teachers, and executives understand how they can best support innovation in

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Grandpa | Seth Levine

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Smartsynch raises $20 Million (Jackson, Mississippi)

Jason Ball

It's not everyday that my hometown shows up in VentureSource, so I had to repost this: SMARTSYNCH (JACKSON, MS) RAISES $20 MILLION IN SERIES E?— Industry: Vertical Market Applications Software —?. Credit Suisse Customized Fund Investment led a $20 million round of?series E financing for SmartSynch. Other round investors included Siemens Venture Capital, Beacon Group, and OPG Ventures, Innovation?

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Grandpa

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Jason Mendelson Blogs! | Seth Levine

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