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10 Recommendations For Aspiring New Venture Investors

Startup Professionals Musings

These may be aggregated by an angel group up to about $1M for an angel round. Once invested, you should expect no return until the first “liquidityevent in 3-5 years, maybe longer. Liquidity events include merger or acquisition (M&A), or Initial Public Offering (IPO) when the stock goes public.

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10 Keys To Making Money By Investing In Entrepreneurs

Startup Professionals Musings

These may be aggregated by an angel group up to about $1M for an angel round. Once invested, you should expect no return until the first “liquidityevent in 3-5 years, maybe longer. Liquidity events include merger or acquisition (M&A), or Initial Public Offering (IPO) when the stock goes public.

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10 Steps To Investing Successfully In New Ventures

Startup Professionals Musings

These may be aggregated by an angel group up to about $1M for an angel round. Once invested, you should expect no return until the first “liquidityevent in 3-5 years, maybe longer. Liquidity events include merger or acquisition (M&A), or Initial Public Offering (IPO) when the stock goes public.

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Proceed With Caution Selecting Startup Investments

Startup Professionals Musings

These may be aggregated by an Angel group up to about $1M for an Angel round. Once invested, you should expect no return until the first “liquidityevent in 3-5 years, maybe longer. Liquidity events include merger or acquisition (M&A), or Initial Public Offering (IPO) when the stock goes public.

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Add Startups to Balance Your Portfolio, If You Dare

Startup Professionals Musings

These may be aggregated by an Angel group up to about $1M for an Angel round. Once invested, you should expect no return until the first “liquidityevent in 3-5 years, maybe longer. Liquidity events include merger or acquisition (M&A), or Initial Public Offering (IPO) when the stock goes public.

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10 Keys To Giving The Right Entrepreneur Your Money

Startup Professionals Musings

These may be aggregated by an Angel group up to about $1M for an Angel round. Once invested, you should expect no return until the first “liquidityevent in 3-5 years, maybe longer. Liquidity events include merger or acquisition (M&A), or Initial Public Offering (IPO) when the stock goes public.

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On the Road to Recap:

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The pressures of lofty paper valuations, massive burn rates (and the subsequent need for more cash), and unprecedented low levels of IPOs and M&A, have created a complex and unique circumstance which many Unicorn CEOs and investors are ill-prepared to navigate. If 1999 was a wet (read liquid) bubble, 2015 was a particularly dry one.

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