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What are the most valuable recommendations in order to raise money from VCs connected via Gust?

Gust

With that background, here are 30 tips to help you make the most of Gust: Subscribe to the Gust Blog , and go back and read the past posts. Investor profiles on the platform are created by the investors themselves, and tell you exactly who the group’s leaders are, and what they are looking for.

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

Professor VC

What does it take to be an Angel Investor? 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. Labels: angel groups , Angel Investors. Blog Archive. My Blog List.

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ProfessorVC: Negotiating an Angel Deal in your PJ's

Professor VC

A couple of items buried in the 1300 page bill include changing the definition of an accredited investor and moving regulatory roles on private3 placements from federal to stage level. This will both reduce the number of angel investors and make it more difficult to syndicate across stage lines. Blog Archive. Newer Post.

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Should Equity-Based Crowd Funding Be Legal?

Growthink Blog

First, the SEC largely limits private-equity investments to accredited investors—those with $1 million or more in net worth, among other tight standards. Only 35 nonaccredited investors are allowed to buy private equity in a company's offering. That hinders broad-based online fund raising in a couple of ways. million U.S.

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This Week in VC Episode 6 with @Jason Calacanis: Best One Yet

Both Sides of the Table

Clearly a startup should consult its lawyer before filing or not filing.But the attorneys I relied on to write this piece told me that they’ve done lots of Section 4(2) deals in the past, and would recommend it to clients who had relatively simple financing agreements (not tranched-out, not too many investors, etc.)

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Resources to Find Angel Funding

Business Plan Blog

The site has more than 1,000 member-managed groups and VCs, with 40,000 investors and more than 1,800 startups funded in the last 12 months. It is more of a social networking for raising equity. Their community has already grown to more than 500 startups and 2,500 investors.

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

thestartuplawyer.com

Contact The Startup Lawyer: Home Page About Contact FAQs Glossary Ryan Roberts Law: Home Page Social Networks: Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Flickr Delicious Digg Last.FM so glad we found this blog [too bad it was a little too late]. BTW, I tried visiting your blog but it crashes my Safari browser (Mac version) each time.