Gust

DECEMBER 11, 2013

The Pacific Northwest has some of the best and most active angel groups in the country (and I say that coming from New York!) Check out: Alliance of Angels - Seattle, WA ( [link] els.com/ ). Bellingham Angel Group - Bellingham, WA ( [link] els.com/ ). Boise Angel Alliance – Boise, ID ( [link] iance.com/ ).

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 13, 2011

This one claims to be the world’s largest angel investor network, with 850 accredited investor members throughout twenty one chapters on three continents. Since Keiretsu Forum’s founding in 2000, its members have invested over $200M in 260 companies in technology, consumer products, healthcare/life sciences, and real estate.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 30, 2017

Some investors are all about making money, while others care more about changing the world, advancing technology, or curing a disease that has ravaged their family. You can find these in your professional circle and your sphere of influence, rather than angel groups and venture capitalists.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 5, 2015

New crowd funding platforms on the Internet, like Kickstarter and IndieGoGo , as well as the Jobs Act of 2012 , are expected by many to ramp up regular people’s ability to fund new opportunities and kill the need for angel groups. Rose, according to his recent book, “ Angel Investing.” Neither does David S.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 9, 2014

Most Angel groups and VCs advertise the startups they have recently funded, with pointers to startup websites, sometimes including open positions. Typically you can browse them by region or technology to find founders. Get to know the people there, and ask them for pointers to new ventures that are still in the formative stage.

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David Teten

JUNE 10, 2020

David is also Founder of HBS Alumni Angels of NY , the largest angel group on the East Coast. We will only consider candidates with a minimum of two summers worth of experience in a professional services or technology company environment. NB: SOP is a brand new fund, still in formation, without infrastructure. .

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 4, 2016

Years ago, it cost a million dollars for a new e-commerce site, one that you can now create for almost nothing with current tools and technology. Angel groups, accelerators, and incubators are pervasive. Building a minimum viable product, with customer validation. Incorporating a business entity early through online services.

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Intellectual Property Startup Angel Groups Social Media 120

Berkonomics

JUNE 26, 2014

Angel investors, particularly those in organized angel groups, are typically former entrepreneurs who have had successful liquidity events in their pasts, or executives of companies who’ve retired with the funds from their stock options. So how an angel responds to your pitch depends upon his or her background.

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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. Typically you can browse them by region or technology to find founders. Get to know the people there, and ask them for pointers to new ventures that are still in the formative stage.

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Technical Review Entrepreneur Stock Options Due Diligence 120

Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 4, 2011

Over the past 10 years, I have had the opportunity to see how the process works, several times from the startup side, and more recently from the angel perspective (as a member of an angel group selection committee).

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Austin Startup

JUNE 21, 2013

Atlanta Technology Angels (ATA) today announced it has joined Cowtown Angel Network, Central Texas Angel Network and Golden Seeds in a $3 million investment in Austin-based Wisegate. Enterprise ATA CTAN wisegate'

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 23, 2010

Over the past 10 years, I have had the opportunity to see how the process works, several times from the startup side, and more recently from the angel perspective (as a member of an angel group selection committee).

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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. According to Knowledge.VC , under 5% of US VCs have a full-time team member focused on technology. . But we’re doing it slowly.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 13, 2011

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. National Venture Capital Group endorsed it. Brad on blogging.

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Gust

APRIL 23, 2014

That’s likely why SWIFT, the international banking consortium, this year named Gust the world’s most innovative financial technology startup, and why the US software industry has awarded Gust the CODiE for Best Collaboration Solution for two years in a row. original post can be found on Quora @ [link] *.

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David Teten

DECEMBER 3, 2019

When I met my now-wife, I realized that any technology that can find me a spouse is a killer app. I’d argue that the same type of technologies that have revolutionized dating can revolutionize our industry. . I walk through below how progressive investors are using technology and analytics throughout all of their operations.

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Austin Startup

MARCH 4, 2019

For more information, visit atxstartupcrawl.com SXSW Pitch (formerly SXSW Accelerator) SXSW Pitch is the official SXSW platform to allow early stage technology startups to pitch their product and/or services to industry technology experts, high profiled media personnel, and Venture Capitalists / Angel Investors. don’t worry ?—?we’ve

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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.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 27, 2012

My suggestion is to get some of the angel groups – notorious for slow decision-making and hat passing – and pool their money into a small fund structure of say $5-10 million. A local tech winner really creates a generational technology opportunity in the way nothing else can. San Diego has Qualcomm. Austin has Dell.

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Austin Startup

JUNE 27, 2017

These connections are likely best when firms are networked with other sources of capital vertically (angel groups, venture debt, private equity and investment bank relationships) and horizontally (in-market and out-of-market venture capital firms). He is a partner at Capital Factory and a board member of the Austin Technology Council.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 24, 2012

But many entrepreneurs don’t realize that Angels are also extremely discerning in the projects that they will invest in, rejecting approximately 97% of the proposals submitted to them, according to the California Investment Network. Don’t expect the pomp and celebrity of the Angels on Shark Tank , but they do ask a lot of the right questions.

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Austin Startup

MARCH 19, 2017

The Central Texas Angel Network is one of the most active angel groups in North America. More and more investors from the east, west and middle coasts have their eyes on Austin and are making investments here. Apple’s largest headquarters is in Austin (more employees than Cupertino!)

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David Teten

JULY 3, 2013

Empire Angels is a member-led New York City based angel group of young finance professionals which seeks to invest in and support early stage technology ventures with a focus on young, US based entrepreneurs.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 27, 2012

As a member of the local Angel group selection committee, I’ve seen a lot of startup presentations to investors, and I’ve never seen one that was too short - maybe short on content, but not short on pages! Solution product & technology. Describe your technology patents and “secret sauce”. Opportunity sizing.

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David Teten

JULY 3, 2013

Empire Angels is a member-led New York City based angel group of young finance professionals which seeks to invest in and support early stage technology ventures with a focus on young, US based entrepreneurs.

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Up and Running

MARCH 18, 2010

So this post is my opinion only, not to be taken as expression of the angel group. For example, our group has an explicit bias for Oregon companies and especially companies from the Southern Willamette Valley. Our behind-the-scenes process to review companies, and particularly our discussions, are confidential.

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Gust

JULY 12, 2012

Between Northern Ireland and Ireland, I spent nineteen hours in front of audiences, while delivering eight lectures and workshops to one hundred and sixty-two entrepreneurs and one hundred and ninety angel investors. Audiences totaled over three hundred and eighty entrepreneurs, investors and members of the startup community.

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Gust

DECEMBER 16, 2012

But many entrepreneurs don’t realize that Angels are also extremely discerning in the projects that they will invest in, rejecting approximately 97% of the proposals submitted to them, according to the California Investment Network. Don’t expect the pomp and celebrity of the Angels on Shark Tank , but they do ask a lot of the right questions.

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Angel Investor Intellectual Property Elevator Pitch Angel Groups 179

Up and Running

JULY 2, 2014

We even won $65,000 from an angel investor pitch competition in the form of a convertible note. That is, until one very savvy investor from the interested angel group asked for a copy of our operating agreement. We were on a roll. We gladly handed it over to him as part of the due diligence process.

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Technical Review Angel Investor Due Diligence Dilution 118

Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 10, 2011

As a member of the local Angel group selection committee, I’ve seen a lot of startup presentations to investors, and I’ve never seen one that was too short - maybe short on content, but not short on pages! Solution product & technology. Describe your technology patents and “secret sauce”. Opportunity sizing.

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Elevator Pitch Exit Strategy Burn Rate Merger 234

Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 29, 2017

Every business has to start with a leader – someone to drive through the thousand unknowns of every new venture, no matter how big the opportunity, or how amazing the technology. My angel group always asks the CEO to do the talking, to test their communication skills. Emotional intelligence.

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View from Seed

MARCH 16, 2016

Want hardcore futuristic technology? 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. Want the next TripAdvisor or Wayfair?

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 19, 2010

As a member of the local angel group Selection Committee, I’ve seen a lot of startup presentations to investors, and I’ve never seen one that was too short - maybe short on content, but not short on pages! Solution product & technology. Describe your technology patents and “secret sauce”. Opportunity sizing.

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Exit Strategy Elevator Pitch Burn Rate Merger 235

David Teten

FEBRUARY 6, 2013

How to make the most out of angel group participation. How to collaborate effectively with other angel groups. We will also discuss the latest trends in angel investing and where the industry is headed next. For a preview of the discussion, see “ Introduction to Angel Investing ”.

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Private Equity North America Cofounder Angel Groups 114

David Teten

MARCH 8, 2013

How to make the most out of angel group participation. Latest trends in angel investing and where the industry is headed. INTRO BY: Dan Rosen, Partner at Commerce Ventures & Learning Officer at HBS Angels. How to assess opportunities (idea, team, valuation). How to source great deals.

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San Francisco Venture Capital Angel Groups LLC 114

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. Smaller funds are thriving, and technology has been brought to bear in a major way with efforts like AngelList.

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Angel Groups Angel Investor Aggregator New York 124

Professor VC

JANUARY 27, 2011

And in order to increase our groups returns, one of our goals should be to get more people and man hours involved in the diligence process. This feels about right for an early stage angel investment and no reason that the process needs to drag out for months and even weeks. Labels: angel investing , Black Swan.

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