Up and Running
SEPTEMBER 10, 2014
million people qualify as accredited investors. If companies get funded at all, it’s likely to be from an angel, and an angel who is not part of an investment group. ” Yes, the JOBS Act (Jumpstart Our Business Startups) is exciting, and it will bring a lot more potential investors into the marketplace.
Startup Professionals Musings
FEBRUARY 13, 2011
This is perhaps the most reliable source of information on angel investor groups across the world, and the software is used by most of the other angel organizations mentioned below for deal flow. It boasts 595 member-managed groups and VCs, 30,203 investors, and 2,900 new company applications a month. Keiretsu Forum.
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Startup Professionals Musings
MARCH 16, 2016
But recent changes in the law, associated with the JOBS Act of 2012 , have made it possible to sell small chunks of ownership or equity to non-accredited investors -- regular people on the Internet. When a startup proclaims that it is cash-flow positive but pays no salary yet to the founders, investors call this Ramen-profitable.
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.
Gust
FEBRUARY 22, 2014
When people would ask a similar question back then about the difficulty of software development, my usual response was “anyone can write a TAP program over a weekend that will work with 80% of the paging systems in the world…but getting it to work on the other 20% will take you a year.” despite having lots of competitors.
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. Patent reform is high on the list of priorities for most of the tech industry, particularly in the areas of software, Internet and mobile technology.
Business Plan Blog
DECEMBER 12, 2013
Angels need to meet the Securities Exchange Commission’s definition of an accredited investor, which in their case is they need to have a net worth of at least $1 million and make $200,000 a year—or $300,000 a year jointly with a spouse. About 225,000 people have made an angel investment in the last two years.
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