Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 13, 2011

This one claims to be the world’s largest angel investor network, with 850 accredited investor members throughout twenty one chapters on three continents. Since Keiretsu Forum’s founding in 2000, its members have invested over $200M in 260 companies in technology, consumer products, healthcare/life sciences, and real estate.

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Growthink Blog

APRIL 21, 2013

In this type of Crowdfunding individuals who give you money become investors and own equity in your company. Equity-based Crowdfunding IS legal today, but only when the funders are accredited investors (which entail them meeting certain criteria such as having annual incomes exceeding $250,000). Which form should you choose?

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 10, 2016

If the company has been around for more than a couple of years, and still has no product or revenue flow, there better be a good explanation. One more key employee or one more investor will probably not turn the situation around. Ironically, startup investors are normally in less personal jeopardy than early startup employees.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 11, 2016

These are all accredited investors who risk their own money. As an active angel investor myself, I understand how the process works, and I see the disappointment in the eyes of entrepreneurs who approach angel groups for funding and often get turned away for not being timely or prepared in the minds of potential investors.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 27, 2021

Here are eight key insights that will help you find a productive match: Angels want equity ownership, not causes. By definition, angels are accredited investors, who invest their own money for a percentage of the business. Early stage research and development won’t excite angels.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 8, 2015

If the company has been around for more than a couple of years, and still has no product or revenue flow, there better be a good explanation. One more key employee or one more investor will probably not turn the situation around. Ironically, startup investors are normally in less personal jeopardy than early startup employees.

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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. And today, AngelList is opening the platform up to all startups with top-tier investors. → Learn More.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 16, 2016

It implies runaway investor speculation on future values, fear of missing out on trends, and it leads to unicorns. This term refers to an initial venture-capital investment, often wrongly sought to seed early product development. Frothy is good for entrepreneurs. Seed-round investment. Ramen-profitable.

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ReadWriteStart

APRIL 26, 2011

The service is meant to help investors from all over the country - both accredited investors and what the company calls "sophisticated investors" - gain access to deal that they wouldn't ordinarily see. MicroVentures is an online investment service that uses peer-to-peer fundraising.

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The Startup Magazine

FEBRUARY 24, 2021

Startups need funding to bring their product to market and get to profitability. But how do you go about finding startup investors? There are multiple types of investors and each one is different. Angel investors. In many cities with a startup scene, there are angel investors. They often seem elusive. Crowdfunding.

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Gust

FEBRUARY 22, 2014

As such, creating a functional clone of Gust (including all the features under the hood, and ones that have not yet been released), using world-class engineers and state-of-the-art, 2012 project management in Ruby on Rails, would take roughly 20 person-years from soup to nuts (figure about 1/3 of that in product/UX/UI and 2/3 in actual coding.)

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 10, 2010

This one claims to be the world’s largest angel investor network, with 750 accredited investor members throughout sixteen chapters on three continents. Since Keiretsu Forum’s founding in 2000, its members have invested over $180M in 200 companies in technology, consumer products, healthcare/life sciences, and real estate.

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David Teten

FEBRUARY 26, 2012

HBSANY members are required to be accredited investors (per SEC regulations) and are expected to agree to the terms of the HBSANY Membership Agreement. Remedy Systems ( www.remedysystems.com ) designs and builds practical mobile product platforms that lower the costs and improve the quality of healthcare.

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Feld Thoughts

MAY 9, 2011

As with anything tax related, there are endless politics involved and many of the things that actual get rolled out are so obscure that they either never get implemented or are to difficult for investors to understand. Make it simple – eliminate capital gains if an individual (who is an accredited investor) invests equity (i.e.

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YoungUpstarts

FEBRUARY 18, 2020

At different periods in my life, I worked in a cell phone store, sold Amway products, and sold nutritional supplements. I realized that if I can sell the products and a story and recruit others, then I can sell anything. Learn how to sell anything. Those experiences weren’t always the best, but I did gain something from them.

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Gust

NOVEMBER 8, 2012

Giving privately held companies maximum room to maneuver as they raise funding from accredited investors and participate in secondary markets can only strengthen the startup ecosystem. Intellectual Property.

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Feld Thoughts

OCTOBER 21, 2019

The ten companies that you’ll hear from are working on problems like how we remove carbon from the atmosphere, better manage our water, make valuable products from waste, and keep companies accountable for critical supply chains like coffee, seafood, timber, minerals, cotton, and palm oil.

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Up and Running

NOVEMBER 26, 2018

Venture capital can’t afford to invest in startups unless there is a rare combination of product opportunity, market opportunity, and proven management. They focus on newer products and markets that can reasonably project increasing sales by huge multiples over a short period of time. Traditionally, angel investment was limited by U.S.

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Up and Running

JUNE 14, 2012

You have a great idea to start a new venture and the theory goes that if you can’t convince at least one other person to join the venture with you, how will you convince customers to buy into your vision and product/service. Co-founding teams should bring in complimentary, not overlapping, skills. But in our example, they’re even.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 10, 2014

Many entrepreneurs seems to be convinced that the “crowd” of regular people using the Internet will somehow solve their startup funding needs, when they sense a lack of interest from accredited investors. When pitching to consumers, online or offline, the feedback will likely be on features and design.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 12, 2013

Sites like KickStarter have for years offered rewards and pre-sales for crowd investments, but real equity won’t be legalized until sometime this year for people other than accredited investors. Minimum Viable Product (MVP). It suggests the minimum features to allow the product to be deployed and get feedback, and no more.

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Berkonomics

AUGUST 3, 2023

Certainly, bootstrapping is a preferred method of funding growth if it does not hold back the speed of growth or hobble the quality of product or service to the extent that better-funded competitors can overtake the business. There is a lot to say about retaining control.

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Gust

AUGUST 27, 2014

These are typically Internet-enabled, or consumer products, or medical devices. But regardless of the specifics, what they all have in common is bringing together a group of active Accredited Investors interested in supporting young startups.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 17, 2013

Many entrepreneurs seems to be convinced that the “crowd” of regular people using the Internet will somehow solve their startup funding needs, when they sense a lack of interest from accredited investors. When pitching to consumers, online or offline, the feedback will likely be on features and design.

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Up and Running

AUGUST 26, 2014

506(c) offerings must be made only by accredited investors, whereas crowdfunding ventures are free to accept backing from nonaccredited investors as well. On top of that, Rule 506(c) investors must be verified as accredited investors. Are they likely to have the financial security to be accredited?

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Scott Edward Walker

MAY 9, 2012

Limit your pitch deck to 10 slides or less, tell a story and demo your product (see post here ). Don’t solicit investors via Facebook, LinkedIn or Twitter (see posts here and here ). If it’s a seed round, issue convertible notes (see post here ).

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 25, 2016

Attractive businesses to investors may show revenues that double every year but don’t exceed the gross national product of your country. Investors do expect gross margins that exceed 50 percent, and double-digit penetration rates by the fifth year. It costs very little to file a provisional patent to begin your protection.

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Gust

SEPTEMBER 27, 2014

In order to be competitive, a company needs to have just about everything in place, from its product to its team to market traction, before it is ready to seek funding. Your private profile is where investors will look with a critical eye on everything that makes you a business rather than just a product or a sexy idea.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 16, 2015

Here are eight key insights that will help you find a productive match: Angels want equity ownership, not causes. By definition, angels are accredited investors, who invest their own money for a percentage of the business. Early stage research and development won’t excite angels.

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Gust

NOVEMBER 29, 2011

But, in the US, only wealthy accredited investors * have been allowed by the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) to invest in entrepreneurs and their startup companies (without extensive disclosure of the business plan and risks inherent to such new ventures).

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Gust

NOVEMBER 2, 2014

Many entrepreneurs seems to be convinced that the “crowd” of regular people using the Internet will somehow solve their startup funding needs, when they sense a lack of interest from accredited investors. When pitching to consumers, online or offline, the feedback will likely be on features and design.

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Hearpreneur

AUGUST 2, 2016

Crowdfunding can range from game developers raising money for an entire game to entrepreneurs finding enough backing to create their next exciting product. We generate fully-surveyed and verified Investor and Reservation leads, for both accredited and non-accredited investors.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 16, 2012

Since the economic downturn started, neither angels nor VCs have given much attention to startups without a product and a revenue stream. The recently passed JOBS bill now allows even non-accredited investors to contribute small amounts to new startups through “crowd-sourcing” sites, like Kickstarter and Crowdtilt.

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Up and Running

DECEMBER 19, 2013

What crowd funding was intended to mean was the idea that you could put some information about your business somewhere, for instance, a website, and then you could solicit investors and they would get equity or shares in your company for their investment. You can only do that with accredited investors.

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SiliconHills

JULY 18, 2012

“The opportunity to invest in Savara Pharmaceuticals attracted many of our accredited investors, who are deeply committed to supporting products and technologies with the [.]. Savara is developing pulmonary drugs to treat serious and life threatening conditions.

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Up and Running

MAY 27, 2014

Is the investor asking for an equity stake that does not fairly correlate with the amount of money they are giving you? You haven’t launched your product yet. An investor wants to invest $100,000 in exchange for 50 percent of your company. Challenging your ideas and assumptions in a productive manner.

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Growthink Blog

JUNE 11, 2014

Since 2008, our Gross National Product has increased approximately 10%. To Your Success, -- Jay Turo CEO Growthink P.S. Are you an accredited investor? Because of massive inflation risk. As in 10%, 15%, 20% annually or more. And potentially coming not in the distant future, but very possibly in the next few years. read more.

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