Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 4, 2016

Building your public image and presence should start even before product development, through your website, logo, and blogging. Angel groups, accelerators, and incubators are pervasive. Establishing your brand with interactive social media. The cost of social media done well is low.

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VC Adventure

FEBRUARY 7, 2019

Most cities now have various local tech meetups, pitch competitions, angel groups, etc. Comment on blog and Medium posts, follow VCs that you respect on Medium and Twitter, send them ideas and thoughts on what they’re writing about and investing in. Get involved in your community. Get out there and participate.

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Up and Running

JUNE 2, 2010

If you read this blog regularly, then you know I’m a member of an angel investor group ( Willamette Angel Conference ) and a fan of angelsoft.net , which our group, and hundreds of others, uses to manage the process. Our group made its investment just a few days ago, May 13, as I posted here on this blog.

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Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 14, 2009

Professional angel associations – This one is the source of much controversy. Some angel groups have a reputation for slow decision making processes and not enough value add. Social Network s / Search / Blogs – Obvious, huh? Most people are lazy.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 13, 2011

Brad on blogging. How did you start blogging? “My My initial desire to blog came from something that’s always been my approach to investing – I’m a nerd and I love to play with the technology and part of my approach has really been to understand things both at a user level and at a reasonably deep tentacle level.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 15, 2012

Jason Calacanis, a well-known entrepreneur and Angel investor, opened the debate a while back in a strongly-worded article on his blog which attacked the practice on ethical grounds, and called out popular Angel groups charging fees ranging from several hundred dollars to $5,000 or more. Find and fix that first.

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Tim Keane

DECEMBER 14, 2009

  Some angel groups charge you money to pitch your idea to them.    One of the dangers of taking investment from individual angels, rather than through an angel group or investment firm, is that they have less reputation to protect.    Good angel groups, too. 

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 13, 2010

Jason Calacanis, a well-known entrepreneur and angel investor, opened the debate about a year ago in a strongly-worded article on his blog which attacked the practice on ethical grounds, and called out popular angel groups charging fees ranging from several hundred dollars to $5,000 or more. Find and fix that first.

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Gust

JANUARY 25, 2014

There are actually no angel investing ‘journals’ per se, because there simply are not enough active, professional angel investors to make a market. There are, however, quite a few blog posts on the subject, although most are written for an entrepreneurial audience, rather than angels themselves.

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Tim Keane

OCTOBER 8, 2008

Last week, our angel group reviewed a business with an online lie detector technology.  Last week, our angel group reviewed a business with an online lie detector technology.  Subscribe to this blogs feed. « The Whitehorse Daily Star - good advice for entrepreneurs | Main. Bootstrapping.

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View from Seed

AUGUST 26, 2015

A little under a year ago, we hosted an event called Angel Bootcamp that was a primer for folks thinking about getting into angel investing. Here’s a great recap on the Boston Globe’s tech blog.). He felt like, given some of the opportunities he was seeing, a “primer on angel investing” would be helpful. Other thoughts?

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View from Seed

AUGUST 26, 2015

A little under a year ago, we hosted an event called Angel Bootcamp that was a primer for folks thinking about getting into angel investing. Here’s a great recap on the Boston Globe’s tech blog.). He felt like, given some of the opportunities he was seeing, a “primer on angel investing” would be helpful. Other thoughts?

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Gust

JANUARY 25, 2014

There are actually no angel investing ‘journals’ per se, because there simply are not enough active, professional angel investors to make a market. There are, however, quite a few blog posts on the subject, although most are written for an entrepreneurial audience, rather than angels themselves.

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Up and Running

AUGUST 21, 2014

Assembling investors is another useful option if you need more in the bank, as venture capital groups or angel groups can provide extra leverage. Embed This Image On Your Site (copy code below): Courtesy of: Bplans The post How to Secure Funding for Your Startup (with INFOGRAPHIC) appeared first on Bplans Blog.

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Professor VC

MAY 29, 2008

However, that is not always the case as there is no qualification to set out your shingle as an angel investor or form an angel group. I often wonder if saying you are an angel investor is the 21st century version of being a consultant in the early 1990s after the corporate layoffs, a euphemism for someone without a real job.

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View from Seed

MARCH 16, 2016

I’ll discuss the latter in a second, but first, the increase in investors… A number of super-angels and angel groups institutionalized in the past year, creating a broader set of seed-stage funds, like Converge Venture Partners. Thought leadership originating in Boston.

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Up and Running

MARCH 9, 2012

Sabrina Parsons, CEO of Palo Alto Software (Bplans parent company) recently wrote about Oregon’s unique startup culture on her blog MommyCEO at ForbesWoman : “What is exciting for Oregon companies is that these conferences and angel groups have given Oregon high-growth companies an avenue to get funded, and stay in Oregon.

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This is going to be BIG.

MARCH 1, 2013

This week, I spoke to one of the longest running and most active angel groups in the country, the New York Angels. Luckily for all of us, including the New York Angels themselves, the ecosystem has bloomed. An angel belonging to a group could find more dealflow. 2) A Platform for Visibility.

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Gust

JANUARY 4, 2012

I’d suggest you start with Fred Wilson’s Financing Options: Convertible Debt , one of his MBA Mondays series on his AVC blog. Which leads me to another recommendation: all five of Anton Johnson’s “knowledge is power” five-part series on convertible note financing terms, on this blog. That’s a good summary.

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Professor VC

JANUARY 27, 2011

It turns out the statistics related to returns were from an oft cited study on returns to investors in angel groups sponsored by the Angel Capital Association with research by Robert Wiltbank at Willamette University. Blog Archive. My Blog List. June 28, 2011 3:41 PM. Post a Comment. Newer Post. Older Post.

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Up and Running

MAY 12, 2015

Ask an angel investor: Targeting a particular angel investor can be a good tactic, as they are often willing to evaluate your pitch. Tim advises checking out Gust, which lists regional and local angel groups. From there, you can reach out to an angel in your area. Want more pitching advice?

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 18, 2010

Angel Investor: Writing a business plan for angel investors can be tricky. If you’re pitching to a member of an organized angel group, then a business-like tone is in order. For many angel investors, letting them know “What’s In It For Me” (WIIFM) is critical.

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Business Plan Blog

NOVEMBER 13, 2013

Individual investors who provide financial funding to startups are called ‘Angel Investors.’ Angel investors may invest individually or as part of an angel group, which are usually local organizations made up of Accredited Investors*. Arushi Bhandari, CPA, MBA blogs regularly at www.startuptaxaccounting.com.

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Professor VC

JANUARY 17, 2008

What would the VC corollary to Touched by an Angel, be. I was on a panel earlier this week with several other investors from Angel Groups in the Valley. One of my comments was that we would likely see more institutionalization of angel groups and syndication of deals among groups. Blog Archive.

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Feld Thoughts

FEBRUARY 7, 2010

When I wrote my post titled An Angel Investor Group Move That Makes Me Vomit I expected to write my little rant and be done with it. A month or so later Jason Calacanis picked up the mantle and started a Jihad against the idea of angel groups charging entrepreneurs to pitch to them. The result is the Open Angel Forum.

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Steve Blank

JULY 1, 2014

When I first read about the Investment Readiness Level (IRL) on Steve’s blog, I was excited by Steve’s attempt to bridge the capital-efficient Lean Startup process for founders with the capital-raising process for funders. But the ‘ah-hah!’ No ambiguity. Clarity is good. Investment Readiness Level Enables Better Mentoring.

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Up and Running

OCTOBER 19, 2016

11 Angel Investor Blogs You Should Be Reading. If you really want to learn more about how angel investors think and what is current in the industry, there’s no better way to do it than to read blogs by well-known angels. In this article, we recommend 11 top blogs you should be keeping an eye on.

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Up and Running

MAY 11, 2011

Tweet Having just completed my spring business plan season — three big business plan contests and our angel group investment — I think it’s a good time to poke some holes in several damaging and far-too-common myths about startups. His full biography is available on his blog. Connect with Tim Berry. Twitter.

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Tim Keane

SEPTEMBER 30, 2010

I'm in Dublin this week and was at the Halo Business Angel Network meeting on Monday evening. They're an impressive group, kind of an association of all of the angel groups in Ireland who work together to achieve results. Subscribe to this blogs feed. The Qualities of a Leader. The Qualities of a Leader.

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Up and Running

MARCH 24, 2010

If you don’t read Becky McCray’s Small Biz Survival blog, this is a good chance to remind you. It’s been on my blogroll here on this blog for a long time now. And what reminds me is her Can you teach entrepreneurship post on that blog a couple of days ago. Teaching entrepreneurship is a real issue.

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David Teten

MARCH 24, 2011

It seems in this case, for whatever reason, language posted on [NY Angels] website wasn’t sufficient. And the consequence of the communication gap was a blog post that cast them in an unfavorable light.” ” For HBS Angels, we particularly want to strive to move quickly on investments.

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David Teten

JANUARY 28, 2019

I wrote a blog post on this. Organizations like Accelerate Yale and Columbia Entrepreneurship have made important strides in bringing different university tech groups under one umbrella and hosting high-quality events in. Create a Yale-affiliated angel group, under the university’s official auspices.

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Up and Running

MAY 14, 2010

For more on that, click here for Our Angel Group Chooses to Invest in Healthy Natural Organic Intimacy Products on my main blog today. The winner turned out to be Good Clean Love , selling natural organic healthy intimacy products. It’s interesting to me that I’m seeing a trend emerging.

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Business Plan Blog

AUGUST 6, 2013

Highlights from angel investing in the last quarter include: The median angel deal size for Q1 2013 reached $680K – up 5% since last quarter and 24% since the same quarter last year. 81% of deals were completed in angel groups’ home states.

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ReadWriteStart

FEBRUARY 10, 2011

Before I close today's recap, I want to point readers to a blog post from last week explaining how 1M/1M differs from YCombinator and other such programs. Most incubators, accelerators, or angel groups won't be willing to work with the smaller TAM businesses. He needs to - ASAP.

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ReadWriteStart

OCTOBER 28, 2010

Rick Holdren and Rohit Saxena then discussed Medi-Code , an integration solution for small hospitals (up to 150 beds) and small physician practice groups ($5 million to $20 million annual revenue) to connect with Accountable Care Organizations (ACOs) as a requirement of the healthcare regulatory changes coming in 2012.

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Up and Running

MARCH 30, 2015

Yes, I’m biased on LivePlan because it’s our product, but I see it used as a business summary now in the programs of several of the most prestigious business plan competitions, and my angel group is now using it to summarize some of the companies that submitted for our annual community event. appeared first on Bplans Blog.

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