Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 25, 2016

I often recommend business networking as the most effective way for a startup founder to find investors, advisors, and even key executive candidates. The answer is still the same, but I have learned over the years that there is an etiquette to this process, just like there is for social networking. Join a local investment group.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 10, 2010

If your startup is looking for an angel investor, it makes sense to present your plan to flocks of angels, and assume that at least one will swoop down and scoop you up. One of the most common questions I get is “How do I find angel investors?” With today’s access to the Internet, and Google searches, it really isn’t that hard.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 24, 2014

But now to answer one of the most common questions I get “How do I find Angel investors?” With today’s access to the Internet, and Google searches, it really isn’t that hard. This one claims to be the world’s largest single Angel investor network, with 1,100 accredited investor members throughout 27 chapters on t3 continents.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 11, 2017

But now to answer one of the most common questions I get “How do I find angel investors?” With today’s access to the Internet, and Google searches, it really isn’t that hard. AngelList has featured over 3 million businesses for potential investors in a format that is, effectively, a social network for entrepreneurs and angels.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 20, 2013

But now to answer one of the most common questions I get “How do I find Angel investors?” With today’s access to the Internet, and Google searches, it really isn’t that hard. Although relatively new, they announced early last year that their community had already grown to more than 500 startups, and 2,500 investors.

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Up and Running

NOVEMBER 26, 2018

There is an enormous difference, for example, between a high-growth internet-related company looking for second-round venture funding and a local retail store looking to finance a second location. If you are looking for names and addresses of venture capitalists , start with the internet.

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Up and Running

AUGUST 26, 2014

Both aim to make it easier for companies to tap into a diverse network of investors, and both harness the potential of new technologies to raise capital quickly and cheaply. 506(c) offerings must be made only by accredited investors, whereas crowdfunding ventures are free to accept backing from nonaccredited investors as well.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 9, 2011

It sounds like you could be a full-time Angel investor, but I know you have other activities as well. David: I’m also a serial entrepreneur who has founded half a dozen companies, including Angelsoft, which provides the underlying Internet infrastructure for most of the world’s organized angel investing ecosystem.

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Professor VC

NOVEMBER 14, 2011

I wont go into the details of the bill, but at a high level, it allows entrepreneurs to raise funds over the Internet up to a maximum of $1M annually (or $2M with audited financials). Maximum investment from each individual investor would be the lesser of $10K or 10% of annual income and investors do not need to be sophisticated.

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Business Plan Blog

JANUARY 2, 2014

government’s long standing restrictions on fundraising has given life to a new type of financing called crowdfunding that allows Angel and other early stage investors to quickly assemble a group of investors over the internet. While startups are still limited by the types of investors they can take money from (i.e.

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Business Plan Blog

DECEMBER 18, 2013

Angel investors are people too, and want you to understand their motivation as much as they want to understand yours, and will not respond well to those kinds of pitches. With the internet access available almost everywhere finding an investor, nowadays, is just a Google search away.

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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 And for the love of high-speed internet and all things Web 2.0, He obviously never launched a startup and got shafted by a co-founder.

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This is going to be BIG.

JANUARY 10, 2021

A few months ago, I got a pitch from a company providing a kind of “last mile” for computer vision—an always-on human network that would take images that computers couldn’t identify, and spit back whether or not a roof tile was broken or if a signature matched. Some investors who rewrite the history of innovation.

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