Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 18, 2015

Most Angel groups and VCs advertise the startups they have recently funded, with pointers to startup websites, sometimes including open positions. Use LinkedIn to check for a fit, and craft personal resume emails and letters to make your case. Your best job leads will come from other entrepreneurs.

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Berkonomics

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

Email readers, continue here…] Almost always, professional investors, including angel groups and venture capitalists, also require at least one seat on the corporate board. A seat on your board?

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VC Adventure

FEBRUARY 7, 2019

Most cities now have various local tech meetups, pitch competitions, angel groups, etc. Personally I have long standing relationships with people who regularly email me with thoughts and ideas that are relevant to Foundry and our investment focus. Get involved in your community. Get out there and participate. Participate.

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Up and Running

JUNE 2, 2010

Still, I do know one company chose not to put its full information onto the website, choosing instead to email its business plan as a PDF to investor members who asked for it. I just sent an email to all the members of our group, suggesting that we put up some provisions, for next year, to deal with this possibility.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 13, 2011

The value of Pitch Decks; Brad’s personal preferences on deal presentation; and Brad’s practice of accepting cold approaches via email. Very few people can do a good job with a presentation that is emailable.”. You have said outloud anyone can send you an email, is that fair? Yeah, my email address is Brad@Feld.com.

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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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Feld Thoughts

JULY 24, 2014

We’ll contribute $50k to each investment; our FG Angels Syndicate will contribute up to $450k. Shortly after doing our first few investments, I got a really nice email from a member of Impact Angel Group , a Colorado-based angel group that organized an investment in the FG Angels syndicate.

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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.  Signup for email updates. Enter your Email. « The Whitehorse Daily Star - good advice for entrepreneurs | Main.

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Berkonomics

APRIL 20, 2023

Fortune Magazine and Harvard studies Attempting to get to the number of real failures for all startups, not just those with angel group investments, Fortune Magazine published an article claiming that 90% of these startups do fail. What does THAT mean?

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Berkonomics

JUNE 2, 2022

Looking for an entrance into a VC, an angel group, a bank, a CxO for a sales opportunity, or any other entity? Email readers, continue here…] Using your attorney or accountant to find who is close to the decision maker sometimes works. What’s a gatekeeper? Remember your closest opportunities.

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Berkonomics

DECEMBER 21, 2017

Almost always, professional investors, including angel groups and venture capitalists, also require at least one seat on the corporate board. The investor organization is granted the seat as long as the investment remains, and the documents often name the first representative assigned by the investor group to the position.

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Berkonomics

MARCH 9, 2017

The Angel Resource Institute (ARI) recently published a study conducted by well-respected Rob Wiltbank, quoting that seventy percent of investments made by angel investors to date return less than the amount invested – upon a sale or closing of the business – the great majority of these outright losses as businesses die.

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Berkonomics

MAY 15, 2014

Email readers, continue here.] Angel investing today is similar to where venture capital investing was in the mid-1980s. Angel investing is rapidly evolving to the same state of development, as a result of networking, industry associations, and deal sharing between angel groups.

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David Teten

SEPTEMBER 23, 2017

A major angel group used Influitive , an advocate management tool, to track, activate and motivate their members. Hilary Mason , Data Scientist in Residence at Accel Partners , has a TED talk on how she replaces herself with a shell script to handle her email deluge. 4) Manage deal flow. She is a model for us all! .

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Up and Running

JUNE 25, 2014

But the other thing I would encourage people to do, it’s becoming more and more prevalent in communities across the United States is that people are forming angel groups and putting together LLC funds with a group of investors all together. Scott’s pointing out his email and his phone number. Gust.com , check it out.

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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. You can reach him directly by email or via his website.

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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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Berkonomics

DECEMBER 17, 2020

Angel groups invest from $250,000 to $1,000,000 or more in qualified investments. Some can supply more when syndicating with other such groups. How many angel groups are there? All angel groups will want to see the founders in person or by Zoom at sometime early in the process.

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Feld Thoughts

AUGUST 28, 2015

Over the next few days I had a few emails and phone calls with the VC and the CEO. Yesterday, I got the docs giving the seed investors, which included the FG Angels group, 12% of the post money cap table. I accepted what happened, wrote my post, and moved on. I’m glad the CEO and the VC investors did the right thing.

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Berkonomics

APRIL 4, 2019

Email readers, continue here…] Prepare for your annual meetings well. Shareholders may vote on other issues during the year by written consent, including acquisitions, stock issuance, changes to the articles of incorporation and bylaws, and more. But don’t worry. Few investors will show up that day.

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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. Signup for email updates. Enter your Email. The Qualities of a Leader.

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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. Email This BlogThis! Labels: angel investing , Black Swan. Steve Bennet. at 11:11 PM.

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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. Email This BlogThis!

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Berkonomics

SEPTEMBER 3, 2015

His groundbreaking book, “Early Exits” has become a textbook for angel groups and entrepreneurs throughout the world. His Strategic Exits Corporation provides M&A advisory services, and he is much in demand as a speaker at angel and entrepreneur events worldwide. – Dave.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 16, 2022

Angels like to “touch and feel” their investments, so they are generally only interested in local opportunities. It won’t help your case or your workload to do an email blast and follow-up with 250,000 members around the world. But now to answer one of the most common questions I get “How do I find angel investors?”

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Berkonomics

FEBRUARY 25, 2016

Looking for an entrance into a VC, an angel group, a bank, a CxO for a sales opportunity, or any other entity? Email readers, continue here…] Using your attorney or accountant to find who is close to the decision maker sometimes works.

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Up and Running

JULY 29, 2010

I received this question received in email today: I am in the processes of developing a small business around what I have. I don't see that suggestion in your email, so I assume you've already figured that out. Find a local angel group. been told is a great idea by friends family and SCORE. I am very near the.

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Berkonomics

APRIL 14, 2012

Email readers, continue here.] There must be an annual meeting of the shareholders, and that meeting must be announced with a written notice at least twenty days prior to the meeting. There is a provision that a waiver of notice may be signed preventing this need, but it requires that all shareholders sign).

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Tim Keane

JANUARY 12, 2010

.   For individual angels and others investing their own money, this may be more fluid than for someone with responsibility for a managed fund. For angel groups, the distinction between groups and VCs on this issue is dwindling, especially as angel groups do bigger rounds of financing.   Search.

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Berkonomics

JULY 19, 2010

Almost always, professional investors, including angel groups and venture capitalists, also require at least one seat on the corporate board. The investor organization is granted the seat as long as the investment remains, and the documents often name the first representative assigned by the investor group to the position.

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David Teten

DECEMBER 3, 2019

A major angel group uses Influitive , an advocate management tool, to track, activate and motivate their members. At Flow Capital, we use HubSpot’s sequences and workflows functions to automate a bulk of our emails and internal tasks. Another provider which identifies email addresses of strangers is Contactout.

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Berkonomics

NOVEMBER 7, 2013

500 CEO, serial entrepreneur and the founder of New York Angels. founder and CEO of Gust, the angel financing platform used by over 50,000. accredited investors in 1,000 angel groups and venture capital funds to. Described by BusinessWeek as a “world conquering. collaborate with over 250,000 entrepreneurs in 95 countries.

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Up and Running

MAY 28, 2015

Having said that, if you are, what I see in our group is the lean business plan is initially in the background, it’s your screenplay for your movie. It’s your plan that you go to as you develop summary and pitch, and most important, I see a hundred pitches a year because I do judging for some other angel groups and so on.

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ReadWriteStart

MAY 6, 2011

And Bill Gordon, who is working on pulling together the Stamford Innovation Center in Connecticut with Patty Meagher and Ed Petner, emailed me, saying: "We have spent a week going through your curriculum. What a great product - truly an excellent value for entrepreneurs.

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Business Plan Blog

DECEMBER 18, 2013

Angels are typically only interested in opportunities local to them. They want to “touch and feel” their investments, so email blasts are out of the question. Not only are angels not interested, but it is much more work for you to do follow up with the thousands of people you sent an email to.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 14, 2019

Angels like to “touch and feel” their investments, so they are generally only interested in local opportunities. It won’t help your case or your workload to do an email blast and follow-up with 250,000 members around the world. But now to answer one of the most common questions I get “How do I find angel investors?”

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VC Adventure

NOVEMBER 25, 2009

My view of angel groups is simple. If you’re not rich enough to screen your own potential investments then you’re not rich enough to be an angel investor. And the fact that more than 100% of their investment dollars come from the entrepreneurs they are supposedly helping out makes it even more pathetic.

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