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Venture Capital Access Program launches to aid women and diverse entrepreneurs

David Teten

VCAP©, the first program of its kind, bridges the gap between venture capitalists and angel investor networks and women and diverse entrepreneurs, many of whom have not traditionally had access to these sources of capital. HBSAANY members include venture capitalists, individual accredited investors, and other institutional investors.

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After Raising $6.7M For Startups And Winning SEC Approval, AngelList Opens Up Investment Platform To More Companies

techcrunch.com

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. Crunchboard.

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Raising Capital? 3 Tips for Entrepreneurs

Scott Edward Walker

Fundraising Tips Tip #1: Only Offer and/or Sell Securities to “Accredited Investors”. The rule of thumb in connection with private placements is only to offer and sell securities to “accredited investors” under SEC Rule 506. Issues to consider include: Has the investor done investments like this before?

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What’s the Difference? Venture Capitalist vs. Angel Investor

The Startup Magazine

Investment firms are staffed with analysts, partners, and others to ensure deals are soundly vetted. Investor Involvement. Venture capitalists act as limited partners, providing help to build successful companies in a market they have deemed has potential. Angel Investors. Investor Involvement.

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How to Avoid Taking “Dumb Money” in Your Startup

Up and Running

You should think of choosing an investor the same way you consider choosing a business partner, because after you take their money, they become a partner in your business. And if you choose a partner based on money alone, you’re going to find yourself in trouble. (It Is your target market new to the investor?

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This Week in VC Episode 6 with @Jason Calacanis: Best One Yet

Both Sides of the Table

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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Want more jobs? Support Entrepreneurship

VC Adventure

since 1980 has been generated by firms operating less than five years.” My partner Brad Feld along with Paul Kedrosky wrote a passionate argument in the Wall Street Journal yesterday about one immigration reform idea, the Start-up Visa movement (worth reading the entire piece, see it here ). I whole heartedly agree.