Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 27, 2021

By definition, angels are accredited investors, who invest their own money for a percentage of the business. Warm introductions from common friends are even better, so networking with potential peers and future investors is highly recommended well before it’s time to ask for money. Angels prefer strong teams to big ideas.

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David Teten

JUNE 22, 2012

VCAP© is a collaborative venture that provides women and diverse entrepreneurs nationwide with access to venture capital through accredited investors within the HBSAANY network. VCAP©, the first program of its kind, bridges the gap between venture capitalists and angel investor networks and women and diverse entrepreneurs.

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techcrunch.com

APRIL 26, 2013

In December, AngelList , a service that matches early-stage startups with investors, debuted the ability to allow accredited investors to actually invest in startups on the platform with as little as $1,000. AngelList also partnered with SecondMarket to create an investment vehicle for these investments. HTC One Review.

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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. Later, when your venture is trying to close on financing, or even going public, that forgotten partner surfaces, demanding their original share.

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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. Later, when your venture is trying to close on financing, or even going public, that forgotten partner surfaces, demanding their original share.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 2, 2011

Later, when your venture is trying to close on financing, or even going public, that forgotten partner surfaces, demanding their original share. Do the same for every business partner or employee you may hire. Finding a lawyer early is easy these days, through local networking or even online services like ExpertBids.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 16, 2015

By definition, angels are accredited investors, who invest their own money for a percentage of the business. Warm introductions from common friends are even better, so networking with potential peers and future investors is highly recommended well before it’s time to ask for money. Angels prefer strong teams to big ideas.

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This is going to be BIG.

JULY 13, 2023

It felt like every single time I walked into the partner meeting, I was bringing in another deal—which was great because I was trying to get noticed. We had three other Principals waiting for perhaps one Partner slot to open up and so it was basically written in stone that I was moving on.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 19, 2010

Later, when your venture is trying to close on financing, or even going public, that forgotten partner surfaces, demanding equity. Do the same for every business partner or employee you may hire. The best advice is to only take investment funds from people who can financially afford to lose, and who qualify as accredited investors.

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Business Plan Blog

JANUARY 2, 2014

Meanwhile, Angel groups can benefit from gathering additional partners and co-investors, recruiting and engaging new local angers, seeing new deal flow, and giving first look to a broader network of accredited investors to help close out portfolio deals. Want To Learn More?

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K9 Ventures

MAY 14, 2011

They may or may not be accredited investors, and they don’t invest regularly or often. They provide additional value add in the form of coaching and mentorship, and most of all access to a network of other entrepreneurs and smart people – that to me is really the real value of being involved with an incubator / accelerator.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 15, 2010

Next Wednesday we’ll have Dana Settle of Greycroft Partners, a New York / LA early-stage venture capital fund. We spoke about the changes to an “accredited investor&# proposed by Chris Dodd – This would be bad for angel investing. and who had biz reasons for wanting to remain stealth.”. - Rumored to be appox.

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YoungUpstarts

NOVEMBER 29, 2011

Entrepreneur Finder currently has over 4,500 investor groups (representing over 40,000 individual accredited investors) across 30 countries – making it one of the largest searchable collection of investor profiles online – and should just make it that much easier for startups to seek funding.

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Scott Edward Walker

SEPTEMBER 21, 2011

David Hornik , a partner at August Capital and a very smart investor, confirms this approach in his interview on Sprouter : So if you are new to the area or to entrepreneurship, how do you get the right. Many entrepreneurs initially reach-out to friends and family as a source of capital.

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Gust

OCTOBER 20, 2011

Individual accredited investors in typical angel deals put personal capital at risk for an equity share of growth-oriented, start-up companies. These angel investors generally invest $25,000 to $100,000 in a round totaling $250,000 to $1,000,000. A local network of angels is critical to achieving a diversified portfolio.

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Hippoland

JULY 24, 2018

It’s been about a year since I started working on Hustle Fund with my business partner Eric Bahn. 3c) You also will make General Partner contributions to your fund. This allows you to align with your investors and have skin in the game, and this is standard practice.

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Hippoland

JULY 24, 2018

It’s been about a year since I started working on Hustle Fund with my business partner Eric Bahn. 3c) You also will make General Partner contributions to your fund. This allows you to align with your investors and have skin in the game, and this is standard practice.

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This is going to be BIG.

FEBRUARY 21, 2019

A lot of VC fund pitches—and I know this because I used to vet VCs for a living as an institutional limited partner at a pension fund—sound the same. They all have great networks, above market performance and some special sauce that sounds nice but you’re not 100% clear it makes sense as a way to boost returns or get access to deals.

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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. I wrote a previous blog article regarding startup co-founders. [.]

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 12, 2013

For maximum credibility, start networking for potential investors to build relationships a few months before you start asking for money. In this case you need a partner who has deep domain knowledge and a track record of building businesses. A complete business plan is always required.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 9, 2011

The second company in which I invested, back in 2001, was a novel concept from the serial entrepreneur who invented social networking. After that evaporated, I didn’t invest again until just after the dotcom crash (when my long-suffering spouse grounded me from any further entrepreneurial ventures :-)). The third company is still alive.

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The Next Web

AUGUST 14, 2013

Your Network. 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. Warm introductions are about the best thing you can get for meetings with potential investors. There are entire posts dedicated to raising money on AngelList.

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This is going to be BIG.

JUNE 1, 2020

And investors? Well, you would have needed to be a wealthy, accredited investor to get in on the upside, and only 3% of Americans meet the criteria to do that. And only then can you put asks out every single day to get the pitches from the smartest people in their network and expect it to look different.

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