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Angel Funding Advice

Both Sides of the Table

I recently wrote a post on angel financing covering the topic of convertible notes but I realized I was thinking about the issue more from investor perspective and a very narrow topic of how to price the round. This post is for those who want to raise angel money. I’ll make my next posting shorter. It creeps people out.

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The Microsoft Accelerator, round 2!

David Cohen

Most of those companies from the Kinect program are doing great, and many have gone on to raise venture capital or angel financing since the program ended. Companies in the program get $20,000 in funding and help from great mentors in the TechStars community in addition to access to top executives and engineers within Microsoft.

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Startup Strategy Roundtable: Top 10 Tech Trends To Watch

ReadWriteStart

The company is profitable and has so far raised only $400,000 in friends and family and angel financing. She has a master's degree in electrical engineering and computer science from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Jimmy already has about 65 customers and about a million dollars in annual revenue.

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How to Find the Perfect Startup Job: Part I "Start with 'When'"

Genuine VC

Much of the VC blogosphere commentary about startups covers venture and angel financing with advice focused on company founders. These are people who are probably never going to be founders, but make great VP Engineering, VP Marketing, etc for late-stage companies… and they do it successfully again and again.

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Strategy Roundtable For Entrepreneurs: Crowd Sourced Funding Exchanges - An Emerging Trend

ReadWriteStart

Earlier, of course, we covered AngelList at length , also a crowd sourcing venture in the angel financing space, and this week, we have covered SecondMarket , which is powering Facebook's private market capital raising. When two out of four pitches in a session are from the same category, it most certainly makes me take notice.

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Why Co-Founders Are a Startup's Biggest Liability | The Startup Lawyer

thestartuplawyer.com

Before I bring in any principals I will have the company all set up, some engineering done and patents pending. Before I bring in any principals I will have the company all set up, some engineering done and patents pending. He obviously never launched a startup and got shafted by a co-founder. Will (should) they insist on it?

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Convertible Equity, A Better Alternative To Convertible Debt?

techcrunch.com

” Ressi also says that the percentage of companies with convertible debt that successfully raise Series A funding is shrinking, due to an explosion in new angel financings and just moderate growth in venture funding. Your guide for the best gadget gifts of 2011. Crunchboard.

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