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Trends in Seed Stage Funding for Entrepreneurs

Gust

Then, I looked at angel investment in the US over the past five years, as reported by the Center for Venture Research , in billions of dollars. US Angel Investment – All Regions. This data on angel investing is clearly not as granular as the MoneyTree© data for VC investing. Southern California*. Northwest. . $$$$.

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A Closer Look At The Quality Of Angel Returns Data

David Teten

The only way to get data is to reach out to individual angels. Unfortunately, angels aren’t easy to find; many intentionally keep a low profile. Researchers are forced to rely on angel group registries and word of mouth. Even so, AIPP is still easily the largest angel dataset.

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ProfessorVC: Touched by an Angel

Professor VC

What would the VC corollary to Touched by an Angel, be. I was on a panel earlier this week with several other investors from Angel Groups in the Valley. One of my comments was that we would likely see more institutionalization of angel groups and syndication of deals among groups. Back to the panel.

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1M/1M Strategy Roundtable For Entrepreneurs: Ownership Matters

ReadWriteStart

I was looking for what you teach back in January of 2007 and couldn't find it anywhere. In fact, I think it is a great curriculum for certain angel investors too, especially those who are starting out, including angel groups that are just formed. What a great product - truly an excellent value for entrepreneurs.

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Valuations 101: Scorecard Valuation Methodology

Gust

In the end, such a portfolio might yield the angel investor a total return on investment of 25% per year or more. These anticipated outcomes were validated by “ Returns to Angels in Groups ” by Professor Rob Wiltbank in November 2007. million and the mode (middle number) for this data set is $2.0

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Why Co-Founders Are a Startup's Biggest Liability | The Startup Lawyer

thestartuplawyer.com

View Comments lk says: October 23, 2007 at 9:56 pm the co-founders of textworks just experienced getting shafted by a co-founder! Ryan says: October 24, 2007 at 7:00 am I’m sorry to hear about that. He obviously never launched a startup and got shafted by a co-founder. would you like to link to one another?

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Where are the Deals? How VCs Identify the Next Generation of Startups

David Teten

Annual Deal Pipeline for Selected VCs and Angel Investor Groups. Angel groups using Gust. The funds with sophisticated non-venture center outbound origination programs were almost all able to raise funds equal or larger than their preceding fund in the economically challenging period 2007-2010. Acquirer/ Investor.