Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 27, 2021

By definition, angels are accredited investors, who invest their own money for a percentage of the business. That means you need to lead with your credentials, rather than your disruptive technology. Here are eight key insights that will help you find a productive match: Angels want equity ownership, not causes.

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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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Gust

FEBRUARY 22, 2014

A quick look at the really nice sites developed in just a few months by companies like CircleUp, FundersClub, Bolstr, Seedrs, et al will show you that the base technical challenge of creating a marketplace/social network is not particularly difficult.

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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. New England Investment Network. Tags: entrepreneur startup angel investors flock of angels.

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Austin Startup

FEBRUARY 28, 2019

Opportunity Hub and the OHUB Foundation aim to advance the future of technology, skills, work, entrepreneurship, investment, multi-generational wealth creation and overall opportunity for all. OHUB grew to become the largest black-owned multi-campus entrepreneurship center and technology hub in the US focused on diversity and inclusion.

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Up and Running

NOVEMBER 26, 2018

People in new growth industries, multimedia communications, biotechnology, or the far reaches of high-technology products, generally know about venture capital and venture capital opportunities. You can also post your business plan on websites that bring angel investors together. Traditionally, angel investment was limited by U.S.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 1, 2016

These often lead to angel investors and venture capital investments later, or connections to local company venture funds for selected focus and technology areas. They have connections to industry associations and entrepreneur organizations that can kick-start your networking efforts, both locally and globally.

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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

FEBRUARY 16, 2015

By definition, angels are accredited investors, who invest their own money for a percentage of the business. That means you need to lead with your credentials, rather than your disruptive technology. Here are eight key insights that will help you find a productive match: Angels want equity ownership, not causes.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 16, 2022

AngelList has featured over 3 million businesses for potential investors in a format that is, effectively, a social network for entrepreneurs and angels. This one claims to be the world’s largest single angel investor network, with 3000 accredited investor members throughout 52 chapters on 3 continents.

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Hippoland

DECEMBER 16, 2016

We leverage our institutional and personal connections as well as our network of >18,000 accredited investors to help line up follow-on rounds for our companies and to make the right connections at the right time for helping founders with tactical business objectives. It must be a technology or tech-enabled company.

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thebarefootvc

JUNE 4, 2018

Successful founders have found that it is also a great way to enlist the collective investor network for help.’”. We create a dataset on 4,003 executed and planned ICOs, which raised a total of $12 billion in capital , nearly all since January 2017. Cryptoassets may be growing up…. The post ICOs 2.0

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Business Plan Blog

DECEMBER 18, 2013

It is important to get involved with different startup networks, conferences, and competitions. These are some of the best places to meet investors first hand and meet and connect with other entrepreneurs. Here is a short list of conferences, competitions, and networks to check out for upcoming events.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 14, 2019

AngelList has featured over 3 million businesses for potential investors in a format that is, effectively, a social network for entrepreneurs and angels. This one claims to be the world’s largest single angel investor network, with 3000 accredited investor members throughout 53 chapters on 3 continents.

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YoungUpstarts

NOVEMBER 29, 2011

Or how about an angel investor scouring for a technology startup to invest in? ” Historically, there have been two types of business networking sites – one aimed at recruiters and another aimed at entrepreneurs. A startup looking for investment, mentorship, or specific talent to help grow your company?

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 15, 2010

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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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 24, 2014

Although relatively new, AngelList already has featured over 42,000 businesses and provided over 28,000 introductions to potential investors in a format that''s, effectively, a social network for entrepreneurs and Angels. New England Investment Network. Keiretsu Forum. Angel Capital Association (ACA). Marty Zwilling.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 11, 2017

AngelList has featured over 3 million businesses for potential investors in a format that is, effectively, a social network for entrepreneurs and angels. This one claims to be the world’s largest single angel investor network, with 2500 accredited investor members throughout 52 chapters on 3 continents.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 20, 2013

Although relatively new, they announced early last year that their community had already grown to more than 500 startups, and 2,500 investors. The format is more social networking in nature, and they also will soon provide a recruiting portal for crowdfunding with unaccredited investors, now that the US JOBS Act has been passed.

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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

I enjoy learning about new technologies and ideas – and you get to see a lot of them in this business especially in early stage investing. 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.

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Hippoland

JULY 24, 2018

I enjoy learning about new technologies and ideas – and you get to see a lot of them in this business especially in early stage investing. 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.

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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 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

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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. But that one fell victim to rapidly developing technologies, the recession, and the collapse of the consumer electronics market, and is unlikely to return a significant profit.

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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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