Gust

SEPTEMBER 27, 2014

Gust is used by over 1,000 angel investment groups, accelerators, business plan competitions and support programs to manage their applications. Rather than limiting your search to venture funds, therefore, consider the full range of startup options.

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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? It creeps people out.

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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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Gust

JULY 19, 2014

With Gust , the power of the system is that your completed investor relations profile can now serve as your official application to virtually any organized angel group in the world…all you need to do is share it with them*. and read their detailed profiles to see if they would be a good match for your venture.

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Gust

AUGUST 27, 2014

Most groups run regular education sessions for new members, and provide mentoring for less experienced investors by those with many deals under their belt. The typical US angel group will receive a dozen or more funding applications from startups each month; the most active ones, such as New York Angels will receive over 100.

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Gust

JUNE 25, 2014

Both platforms allow investors (and others) to search for companies by criteria such as name, keyword and location.

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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.  « The Whitehorse Daily Star - good advice for entrepreneurs | Main. Being The Best You Can Be. Being The Best You Can Be.

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David Teten

SEPTEMBER 23, 2017

VCs tout themselves as frontier technology investors, but most are using the same infrastructure tools they have used for the past 20+ years: Excel and recent college grads searching Google. A major angel group used Influitive , an advocate management tool, to track, activate and motivate their members.

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This is going to be BIG.

OCTOBER 5, 2012

Angel groups started dropping their application fees or making them minimal. Open Angel Forum created a costless way for the best startups to get in front of the best capital. Angellist, Gust, etc all made searching for and comparing deals much easier. Open is better for both sides.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 11, 2012

Of course, you need to listen for biases, but local angel group leaders can quickly tell you who the bad angels and good angels are, and what kind of terms they typically demand. Do a simple Google search like you would on any company or individual before signing a contract. Network with other entrepreneurs.

Due Diligence 241

Due Diligence Entrepreneur Offshore Angel Groups 241

David Teten

JANUARY 28, 2013

They’re buying into companies post-seed funding, with traction, at prices that aren’t significantly higher than angel prices.”. With all that said, the data is definitely weaker here than, say, the data Identified (ff VC company) uses to gamify your job search. The only way to get data is to reach out to individual angels.

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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.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 3, 2010

Of course, you need to listen for biases, but local angel group leaders can quickly tell you who the bad angels and good angels are, and what kind of terms they typically demand. Do a simple Google search like you would on any company or individual before signing a contract. Network with other entrepreneurs.

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Up and Running

JUNE 20, 2013

Let angels know about Gust. Once you get your Gust profile all buttoned up, it’s time to share it with the angel investor groups on Gust. You’ll want to do some research before inviting the angel groups to view your profile. You can learn more about each group through Gust as well.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 16, 2022

But now to answer one of the most common questions I get “How do I find angel investors?” With today’s access to the Internet, and Google searches, it really isn’t that hard. Angel Capital Association (ACA). It won’t help your case or your workload to do an email blast and follow-up with 250,000 members around the world.

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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. See you next time.

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Gust

DECEMBER 27, 2011

Of course, you need to listen for biases, but local angel group leaders can quickly tell you who the bad angels and good angels are, and what kind of terms they typically demand. Do a simple Google search like you would on any company or individual before signing a contract. Network with other entrepreneurs.

Due Diligence 119

Due Diligence Entrepreneur Offshore Angel Groups 119

ReadWriteStart

FEBRUARY 10, 2011

Now if you do the research on the keyword groups that are relevant for this category of products, for example, "diaper bags" and related keywords, you will find that the query yields millions of searches. Most incubators, accelerators, or angel groups won't be willing to work with the smaller TAM businesses.

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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. The Qualities of a Leader. The Qualities of a Leader. Signup for email updates. April 2013.

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David Teten

JANUARY 28, 2019

Students typically use internship search sites like AngelList, Internships.com, and Experience.com; Yale uses an internal job board powered by Symplicity. Create a Yale-affiliated angel group, under the university’s official auspices.

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Growthink Blog

MARCH 12, 2013

At present, there are about 250,000 private angel investors in the United States that fund more than 30,000 small businesses each year. Most of these angel investors are not members of angel groups. They also go through an expensive and lengthy process of deciding on the best business to invest their money.

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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.

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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. Sabrina: Absolutely, we work with Gust. Gust.com , check it out.

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Business Plan Blog

DECEMBER 18, 2013

Angel investors are people too, and want you to understand their motivation as much as they want to understand yours, and will not respond well to those kinds of pitches. With the internet access available almost everywhere finding an investor, nowadays, is just a Google search away. All you need to do is create a company profile.

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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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ReadWriteStart

MAY 6, 2011

An incubatee with Indian Angel Network, Anirudh Motwani from New Delhi, India, discussed IndiaCollegeSearch , a vertical search engine to address the problem of finding detailed information about various colleges and institutions in India. IndiaCollegeSearch. What a great product - truly an excellent value for entrepreneurs.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 14, 2019

But now to answer one of the most common questions I get “How do I find angel investors?” With today’s access to the Internet, and Google searches, it really isn’t that hard. Angel Capital Association (ACA). It won’t help your case or your workload to do an email blast and follow-up with 250,000 members around the world.

Angel Investor 241

Angel Investor North America Accredited Investor Angel Groups 241

David Teten

DECEMBER 3, 2019

A major angel group uses Influitive , an advocate management tool, to track, activate and motivate their members. Coalesce address the more general problem of searching through large data sets for best fits. – angel investor networks ( AngelList , FundersClub , OurCrowd , Republic *, SeedInvest ). .

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VC Adventure

FEBRUARY 22, 2010

You can see my post on that subject here , one from my partner Jason Mendelson over on peHUB here , Jason Calicanis’ very popular post on the subject here (and a quick search on Google will pick up dozens more). At issue is the question of whether it’s reasonable to charge entrepreneurs to get in front of potential investors.

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Venture Capital Angel Groups Angel Investor Reputation 52

VC Adventure

FEBRUARY 22, 2010

You can see my post on that subject here , one from my partner Jason Mendelson over on peHUB here , Jason Calicanis’ very popular post on the subject here (and a quick search on Google will pick up dozens more). At issue is the question of whether it’s reasonable to charge entrepreneurs to get in front of potential investors.

Venture Capital 52

Venture Capital Angel Groups Angel Investor Reputation 52

Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 24, 2014

But now to answer one of the most common questions I get “How do I find Angel investors?” With today’s access to the Internet, and Google searches, it really isn’t that hard. It powers over 1,000 investment Angel and VC groups in 80+ countries. Angel Capital Association (ACA).

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 11, 2017

But now to answer one of the most common questions I get “How do I find angel investors?” With today’s access to the Internet, and Google searches, it really isn’t that hard. Angel Capital Association (ACA). It won’t help your case or your workload to do an email blast and follow-up with 250,000 members around the world.

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Angel Investor North America Accredited Investor Angel Groups 167

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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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 20, 2013

But now to answer one of the most common questions I get “How do I find Angel investors?” With today’s access to the Internet, and Google searches, it really isn’t that hard. It boasts more than 1,000 member-managed groups and VCs, with 40,000 investors, and over 1,800 startups funded in the last 12 months.

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Austin Startup

JUNE 26, 2019

Because we will not be maintaining the integrity of the data after June 28th, we will be discounting the search and account features after that date. Since launching the site last year, we’ve had the privilege of helping more than 7,500 folks with their most important search. Like all relationships, they take time.

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David Teten

FEBRUARY 3, 2014

Just do a search online and the VC’s job is done! Annual Deal Pipeline for Selected VCs and Angel Investor Groups. Angel groups using Gust. But in practice, these phenomena create a tremendous volume of startups, which investors then have to filter. The easier it is to source, the more you have to work to screen.

Private Equity 114

Private Equity Venture Capital Technical Review Equity 114

www.paulgraham.com

APRIL 28, 2010

Infact, the more prominent the angel, the less likely they are tobelong to a group. Some angel groups charge you money to pitch your idea to them.Needless to say, you should never do this. Deal terms with angels vary a lot. As in families, relationsbetween founders and investors can be complicated.)

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