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How to Find and Close Angel Investors from a Standing Start

View from Seed

Whether an entrepreneur is raising a smaller (pre-)seed round entirely from individuals or she has a seed-stage or larger VC firm involved in (leading) the seed syndicate, it’s somewhere between necessary and optimal to have multiple individual angel investors involved. It’s NOT necessary to ask for a potential investor name).

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How Private Equity and Venture Capital Investors Are Eating Their Own Dogfood

David Teten

It seamlessly creates a deal folder (company name) in our Google Drive, and notifies us that a new deal has entered the pipeline via Slack. We use the vendors of PE/VC investing data I list above to track the interests of potential private equity/VC coinvestors, and selectively introduce our companies as I build out a syndicate. .

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The Texas Startup Manifesto

Austin Startup

Partnerships with innovative global companies in major industry verticals provide unique opportunities for customer validation, pilot programs and strategic investment. Edwards, Texas A&M, Texas State, Texas Tech, and Trinity to name a few. Texas has world-class educational institutions across the state.

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VCs eating our own dog food: Using technology and analytics to make better investments

David Teten

Pro Publica has a Nonprofit Explorer database searchable by principal name on all nonprofit filings, so you can see a person’s nonprofit activities. . the Untouched Vertical. Pacer is useful to search prior litigation, bankruptcies, etc. Opencorporates helps in hunting prior company histories and principals. The VC Software Stack?—?the

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10 Essential PR Tips for Startups

mashable.com

Then research which journalists at that publication cover the vertical in which your startup or its news would fall. Even if this kind of coverage seems tangential, it gets the name of your company in the media and helps to build buzz. Global Syndication Partners. Don’t always try to land the company or CEO profile.

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Google VP: Here's How to Get Bought By Us

mashable.com

My team would like to sell a simple concept with intangible assets (domain names, copyrights, etc.) I would like to know, what are the areas/vertical they are looking for acquisition? Global Syndication Partners. This would make it much easier for smaller start ups to make contact with Google. July 18, 2012 11:30:30.

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Why Your Startup's Name Matters

mashable.com

Why Your Startup’s Name Matters. This article is the first in a three-part series about naming your startup; on Thursday, we’ll discuss creating names, and on Friday, we’ll discuss testing names. Naming can be one of the most difficult challenges in the early stages of a startup. Like Tweet.

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