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7 Steps To Finding Investors Aligned With Your Values

Startup Professionals Musings

You can find these in your professional circle and your sphere of influence, rather than angel groups and venture capitalists. For example, rather than getting cash from professional investors and hiring programmers, find qualified developers who are willing to work for equity or deferred payments.

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How to Raise Startup Funding from Unlikely Angel Investors

Up and Running

Angel investors come from a variety of ages, backgrounds, and professions. I’m not your average angel. I’m not active in an angel group. I live in a small town surrounded by farms and I made my first angel investment at 29 because my dad said it was a good idea. I’m a mom, a full-time sales manager, and recruiter.

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How To Get a Job In Venture Capital

VC Adventure

And with more, smaller, seed focused funds, VC firms can be scrappier and more thoughtful about who they want to hire and how and where they find them. Most cities now have various local tech meetups, pitch competitions, angel groups, etc. Get involved in your community. Get out there and participate.

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Are Angel Groups Hiding Foxes in Henhouses?

Up and Running

Still, I was quite concerned the other day to read the fox-in-henhouse problem posted in a very well-written and thoughtful post called 11 Lessons I Learned Raising Venture Capital : “Be wary of angel networks. We presented to two angel networks in Seattle. He was madly taking notes.

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Angel Funding Advice

Both Sides of the Table

Quick caveats: having fewer investors (3-5) is better than many investors (10-15) and PLEASE make sure you hire a great lawyer who has experience in doing start-ups to avoid pitfalls that will make VC harder down the line. Professional angel associations – This one is the source of much controversy.

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How to Pick the Right Attorney For Your Startup

Up and Running

We had personally invested $70,000 of our own money at this point, and we were hoping to raise at least another $250,000 to help us hire a team, launch our company, and begin to build our product. We even won $65,000 from an angel investor pitch competition in the form of a convertible note. We were on a roll.

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How to Break into a Senior Business Position at a Growing Startup

This is going to be BIG.

2) You’re not a specialist—so a company at that stage would be hard pressed to hire you as a head of sales or marketing, for example, because there are plenty of people out there who already have that specific skill set with startup leadership experience behind it. the types of companies you want to be talking to.

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