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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. Surround yourself with great advisors or other entrepreneurs.

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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. Please note, that I work exclusively with 1M/1M entrepreneurs. peerbackers. Quipu Applications.

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VC Seed Funding Example: Trada

Feld Thoughts

Niel and I hammered out a second financing in similar fashion (again around the Foundry conference table, this time without the need for an angel roadshow). It’s a great example of how we like to work with entrepreneurs – especially those that we have a long history with.

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Families Help Nurture Vanderbilt Entrepreneurs

Campus Entrepreneurship

Great piece from Sramana Mitra highlighting two entrepreneurs that launched an educational software firm, Archipelago Learning, out of Vanderbilt. Mitra points out that the free rent may have been worth up to $20,000 in angel financing? Families: Nurture Entrepreneurs – Forbes.com.

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Answers to the 5 Most Common Angel Investor Questions

Growthink Blog

When several private investors form an organization to collective fund ventures, they are known as an "angel investor group." The act of providing the financial backing is known as "angel investing." The amount of angel financing is significant. What return on investment do angel investors want?

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Startup Capital: Feast or Famine?

Gust

New Company Formation – According to the Kauffman Foundation, entrepreneurs start about 700,000 companies per year in the US. We have no measure of the changes in available capital resources from entrepreneurs and their friends and family, but we have no reason to believe they have changed radically over the past few years.

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Startup Strategy Roundtable: Top 10 Tech Trends To Watch

ReadWriteStart

As for the entrepreneur pitches, first up today was Bhupendra Kanal with InRev , a social CRM analytics company. The company is profitable and has so far raised only $400,000 in friends and family and angel financing. Sramana Mitra is a technology entrepreneur and strategy consultant in Silicon Valley.

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