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Find an Angel Investor, Without Going Through Hell

Startup Professionals Musings

With today’s access to the Internet, and Google searches, it really isn’t that hard. The reach is very broad, however, with 30 branches worldwide covering over 80 countries in Europe, North America, South America, Africa, Asia and Australasia, and over 120,000 members worldwide. Here are the largest flocks: Angelsoft.

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Carousell gets cozy with Rakuten to bring its mobile marketplace to Southeast Asia

The Next Web

Singapore-based mobile marketplace Carousell wants more users in Southeast Asia to start buying and selling items through their mobile phones on its platform — and it has linked up with Japanese e-commerce giant Rakuten to do so. Moving into Southeast Asia, however, isn’t an easy task — as it is a hugely fragmented market.

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30 Entrepreneurs Explain Why They Started Their Business

Hearpreneur

My goal is to show up as the #1 search result when people search for a word counter so we can capture millions of clicks per month. I monetize my content with Google Adsense and the Grammarly affiliate program. The Grammarly affiliate program pays.20 20 cents for a free sign up and $20 for a paid sign up.

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Where To Find The Most Angels To Fund Your Startup

Startup Professionals Musings

With today’s access to the Internet, and Google searches, it really isn’t that hard. As an entrepreneur, you simply use their investor search engine to find appropriate investors for your business according to location, industry interest and other relevant criteria. Here are the largest flocks: Gust (formerly AngelSoft).

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Start Here if You are Looking for Angel Investors

Startup Professionals Musings

With today’s access to the Internet, and Google searches, it really isn’t that hard. As an entrepreneur, you simply use their investor search engine to find appropriate investors for your business according to location, industry interest and other relevant criteria. Here are the largest flocks: Gust (formerly AngelSoft).

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Applying Lean Startup Beyond Silicon Valley

Startup Lessons Learned

September 25 in Asia), international Lean Startup experts Kevin Dewalt , Takashi Tsutsumi and Justin Wilcox will meet for a webcast to compare notes and hash out solutions. like Asia, is that the methods most of us are familiar with are actually pretty culturally specific. People search differently in different cultures.

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Taking Corporate VC: When It Makes Sense

View from Seed

One of our prior investments was an e-commerce company that grew primarily through organic search. I was an early employee at PayPal and back in the 2000-2001 timeframe, and we ended up taking a fairly significant amount of strategic investment (tens of millions of $) from various banks in the US, Europe, and Asia.