Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 10, 2010

As a member of the selection committee on one of these local organizations, I use Angelsoft on the investor side to review business plans, deal flow, and help orchestrate presenters at monthly meetings of the local organization. It won’t help your case or your workload to do an email blast and follow-up with 60,000 members around the world.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 24, 2014

It won’t help your case or your workload to do an email blast and follow-up with 250,000 members around the world. But now to answer one of the most common questions I get “How do I find Angel investors?” They probably won’t respond well to high pressure sales tactics, information overload, or bribes. Keiretsu Forum.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 11, 2017

It won’t help your case or your workload to do an email blast and follow-up with 250,000 members around the world. But now to answer one of the most common questions I get “How do I find angel investors?” They probably won’t respond well to high pressure sales tactics, information overload, or bribes. Keiretsu Forum.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 20, 2013

It won’t help your case or your workload to do an email blast and follow-up with 250,000 members around the world. But now to answer one of the most common questions I get “How do I find Angel investors?” They probably won’t respond well to high pressure sales tactics, information overload, or bribes. Keiretsu Forum.

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Feld Thoughts

OCTOBER 21, 2019

As a bonus, there is also an investor-only event that morning for accredited investors. If you want more details, email hannah.davis@techstars.com. The partnership between Techstars and The Nature Conservancy is combining disruptive technologies from startups with proven science from conservation in powerful ways. .

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Gust

SEPTEMBER 27, 2014

In addition to sharing your site with institutional/organized investors you find in the Gust database, one of the platform’s most powerful features is that you can use Gust to share your materials with any potential investor , provided you know their email address.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 28, 2013

These events are swarming with potential investors, and this is the forum where they are actively soliciting new opportunities, so don’t be shy about handing out your business card at breaks, lunch, mixers, or scheduled activities. Don’t do cold calls or email blasts of your resume and business plan to potential investors.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 12, 2013

It won’t help your case or your workload to do an email blast and follow-up with all eight million accredited investors in the US. Angels like to get involved directly with the team. This means they are generally only interested in local opportunities.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 27, 2012

These events are swarming with potential investors, and this is the forum where they are actively soliciting new opportunities, so don’t be shy about handing out your business card at breaks, lunch, mixers, or scheduled activities. Don’t do cold calls or email blasts of your resume and business plan to potential investors.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 7, 2013

Early partners or co-founders often drop out of the picture early due to disagreements, and you forget about them, but they don’t forget about the verbal or email promises you made. This works to protect you from unscrupulous investors, as well as non-professional investors who may later say that your business plan was misleading.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 25, 2016

These events are swarming with potential investors, and this is the forum where they are actively soliciting new opportunities, so don’t be shy about handing out your business card at breaks, lunch, mixers, or scheduled activities. Don’t do cold calls or email blasts of your resume and business plan to potential investors.

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Berkonomics

AUGUST 3, 2023

Friends, family and fools: [Email readers, continue here…] This term, although pejorative, describes the typical mix of early investors in a small, young growing business. But few businesses grow into the sweet spot of $20 million to $30 million in worth to an ultimate buyer without the injection of outside capital.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 10, 2012

Early partners or co-founders often drop out of the picture early due to disagreements, and you forget about them, but they don’t forget about the verbal or email promises you made. This works to protect you from unscrupulous investors, as well as non-professional investors who may later say that your business plan was misleading.

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Berkonomics

MAY 22, 2014

I am an angel investor, that is, an accredited investor who is assumed by the SEC and others to be sufficiently wealthy to afford to lose the investment and supposedly experienced enough to make good choices on fundable companies. Limit your offering: Only sell shares to accredited investors. Sounds simple, huh?

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Berkonomics

FEBRUARY 27, 2020

The problem in taking such money rests in the legality of taking money from non-accredited investors, people who do not meet the SEC standard for making non-public company investments. What if some past investors don’t meet that standard?

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 10, 2010

These events are swarming with potential investors, and this is the forum where they are actively soliciting new opportunities, so don’t be shy about handing out your business card at breaks, lunch, mixers, or scheduled activities. Don’t do cold calls or email blasts of your resume and business plan to potential investors.

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Business Plan Blog

NOVEMBER 14, 2013

This JOBS act provision makes it so that once a startup approaches accredited investors (based on $200,000 annual income or more, or $1 million net worth excluding a personal residence) the family-and-friend funding source is then banned. Once emails or online posts sound like fundraising campaigns, it becomes general solicitation.

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Growthink Blog

FEBRUARY 20, 2014

On that day, in an email to over 80,000 entrepreneurs, I predicted that Crowdfunding (which had just begun) was going to be huge. For example, "accredited investors" can now make equity-based Crowdfunding investments. But non-accredited investors still cannot. It turns out, I was right.

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Tim Keane

MARCH 8, 2010

" Entrepreneurs looking for investors know about "accredited investor" status and the myriad benefits it provides.    The premise is that having sufficient net worth makes the investor more sophisticated.  Signup for email updates. Enter your Email. Now comes Sen. April 2013.

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Hippoland

DECEMBER 16, 2016

Previously, he held multiple roles at SendGrid, a cloud-based email platform, that delivers billions of customer engagement emails each month for companies like Uber, Spotify, Tumblr and AirBnb. In his first 12 months as a VC Pedro sourced 9 deals for FundersClub with founders from 5 different countries.

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www.paulgraham.com

APRIL 28, 2010

There are three maindisadvantages: you mix together your business and personal life;they will probably not be as well connected as angels or venturefirms; and they may not be accredited investors, which couldcomplicate your life later. The regulatory burden is much lower if a companys shareholdersare all accredited investors.

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Professor VC

MAY 29, 2008

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. Email This BlogThis! Labels: angel groups , Angel Investors. Steve Bennet.

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Scott Edward Walker

OCTOBER 27, 2015

We charge a flat fee of $2,000, plus filing fees, for up to three co-founders and it includes unlimited phone calls and emails. Only raise funds from “accredited investors” (see post here ) and don’t pay anyone a commission for raising funds for you unless they are a registered broker-dealer (see post here ).

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Scott Edward Walker

JUNE 23, 2011

Conclusion This post was originally part of my “ Ask the Attorney ” series which I am writing for VentureBeat (one of my favorite websites for entrepreneurs).

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Berkonomics

JUNE 8, 2017

It might be useful to list some of the ways in which you can raise money for growth with and without outside investors. Email readers, continue here…] Bootstrapping: This term describes your ability to start a business with little investment and grow it using internally-generated funds.

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Professor VC

NOVEMBER 14, 2011

Email This BlogThis! The blog post you included does offer a solution and limiting non accredited investors to $1,000 rather than 10% of income will hopefully eliminate people betting the farm. More importantly, this could lead us down the road weve already traveled with day traders and real estate flippers.At Steve Bennet.

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Berkonomics

NOVEMBER 7, 2013

accredited investors in 1,000 angel groups and venture capital funds to. Described by BusinessWeek as a “world conquering. entrepreneur” and by Forbes as “New York’s Archangel”, David is a former Inc. 500 CEO, serial entrepreneur and the founder of New York Angels. collaborate with over 250,000 entrepreneurs in 95 countries.

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Professor VC

APRIL 1, 2010

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. Email This BlogThis!

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Business Plan Blog

DECEMBER 18, 2013

They want to “touch and feel” their investments, so email blasts are out of the question. Not only are angels not interested, but it is much more work for you to do follow up with the thousands of people you sent an email to. Their community has already grown to more than 500 startups and 2,500 investors.

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Scott Edward Walker

OCTOBER 20, 2011

In other words, the nature and quality of the relationship must be such that the company (or a person acting on its behalf) can determine that the person receiving the offer would be a suitable investor. OneWire recently touted the fact that it raised $30 million from 101 angel investors.

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The Next Web

AUGUST 14, 2013

There’s a couple places you can find other investors: Your customers. Send them a quick email and they might be willing to give intros for you. It might take some digging, but I’d bet you can work your way to accredited investors through your own network easier than you might think. AngelList is all the rage these days.

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Scott Edward Walker

SEPTEMBER 21, 2011

Entrepreneurs must first determine who would be the ideal investor for their company. They then must work hard to get an introductory phone call or email from a middleman whom the investor trusts and respects (ideally, another entrepreneur whom that investor has backed). This is how the game is played. How is this done?

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Berkonomics

JANUARY 20, 2010

Before we explore the next insight, it might be useful to list some of the ways in which you can raise money for growth with and without outside investors. Email readers continue here.]. Bootstrapping: This term describes your ability to start a business with little investment and grow it using internally-generated funds.

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Professor VC

MARCH 12, 2015

As a refresher, syndicates were introduced by Angellist a couple of years ago as a way for companies to raise funds in small increments from a large number of investors (SEC limit of 99 accredited investors). In fact, I have been on the platform since it''s early days as a daily email sharing interesting angel opportunities.

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Hippoland

JULY 24, 2018

see point #4) 6) And you have a limited number of investors you can accept. Per SEC rules, you can only accept 99 accredited investors into your fund. But, when you think about it, that’s still months of actively fundraising. (see When product-startups set a minimum check size, it’s usually arbitrary.

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Hippoland

JULY 24, 2018

see point #4) 6) And you have a limited number of investors you can accept. Per SEC rules, you can only accept 99 accredited investors into your fund. But, when you think about it, that’s still months of actively fundraising. (see When product-startups set a minimum check size, it’s usually arbitrary.

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thestartuplawyer.com

FEBRUARY 24, 2010

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 He obviously never launched a startup and got shafted by a co-founder. Leave a Reply Click here to cancel reply.

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