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Startup Accelerator The Brandery Opens Applications For 2013

YoungUpstarts

A founding member of the Global Accelerator Network, the Brandery has been ranked as one of the top accelerators in the United States by the Kellogg School of Management/Kauffman Fellows/Tech Cocktail rankings. “2012 was a fantastic year for the Brandery , and we look forward to building on those successes.

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Turn the tables: What’s an angel look like?

Berkonomics

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.

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How to Impress Angel Investors and Make It into “Startup Heaven”

Up and Running

The type of deals and industries they invest in, the company stages, and the amount they invest depends on the individual or angel group. I have pitched to hundreds of angel investors over the years as a result of co-founding two tech companies and raising just shy of $1M in angel capital. What impresses angels?

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How Venture Capitalists and Government Can Promote Entrepreneurship

David Teten

Like virtually the entire tech industry, I am particularly in favor of Startup Visa , which has the goal of stimulating our domestic startup community through acts to keep our foreign-born entrepreneurs in the United States. Following is a list of some of the policy initiatives I’ve working on, to various extents.

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The five C’s of Business Partners: a marriage without the sex

Berkonomics

He is Director of the Leatherby Center for Entrepreneurism and Business Ethics, and Chairman Emeritus of the Tech Coast Angels, the largest angel group in the United States. Enjoy! .

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The Investors Guide to SXSW 2019

Austin Startup

FENVES, University of Texas at Austin TRENT SEGERS, University of Texas at Austin Best-in-class student-led startups from across the United States will compete live on stage to win over entrepreneur & venture capitalist judges for cash prizes, bragging rights, and a chance to impress and inspire the SXSW crowd.

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A Visit With the European Startup Community

Gust

On the morning of Monday, May 7th, I led a workshop on angel groups for an audience of about seventy investors and entrepreneurs organized by the award-winning Finnish Business Angel Network ( FiBAN ). Audiences totaled over three hundred and eighty entrepreneurs, investors and members of the startup community.

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