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. If you need more, you need to focus on venture capital territory.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 16, 2015

Most entrepreneurs have found by now one or more of the many popular crowdfunding sites , and have the name and contact information for at least one of the big venture capital firms. By definition, angels are accredited investors, who invest their own money for a percentage of the business.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 9, 2011

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 second company in which I invested, back in 2001, was a novel concept from the serial entrepreneur who invented social networking. Really, really tough.

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New York Accredited Investor Advisory Board IRR 221

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.”. -

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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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thestartuplawyer.com

FEBRUARY 24, 2010

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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. Venture capital is supposed to make a high multiple of return for the risk. so they make up less than 10% of 10%.

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