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Now That’s How You Do An Angel Pitch Event

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This is an intense week for seed stage stuff in Boulder as TechStars Demo Day is tomorrow where 11 new companies are having their coming out party. Over two days, 17 early stage software / Internet companies are having high quality exposure to angel and seed investors in Boulder. Simply put, it was dynamite.

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The Paradox of VC Value-Add

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Or that it would have worked great if only the Internet bubble hadn’t collapsed. We deeply believe that the way companies are created and funded, especially at the seed stage, is radically changing on a permanent basis. Or that we completely f *d it up. Or that our basic premises about what we were doing was wrong.