Gust

JUNE 19, 2012

Thoughts on startups by investors that fund them & entrepreneurs that run them. Here’s Why on his Both Sides of the Table blog for a good read and a good lesson. 22 » More than 40,000 investors worldwide trust Gust. Investors: Sign up Entrepreneurs: Get started. Angel Investor , Frontier Angel Fund.

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Up and Running

MARCH 11, 2015

Fortunately, many of the top VCs share their thoughts on their blogs and are full of advice for startups, both big and small. Here’s a list of our favorite VC blogs, in alphabetical order. I like to follow these blogs through Feedly, but you can often sign up to get email alerts for new posts from most of these blogs.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 4, 2019

Based on my recent experience as an angel investor, and advisor to new business owners, I now recommend that all entrepreneurs, especially introverts, learn and practice the discipline they need to build and nurture relationships with key constituents through the following activities: Formalize a mentoring relationship with someone you trust.

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Up and Running

MARCH 27, 2015

In the business world, angel investors are sometimes equated with actual angels, sent to help us fund what could not otherwise be funded. These guardian angels of innovation are responsible for bringing many new ideas to life. See Also 10 Questions I Didn’t Expect to Be Asked by Investors. Venture Hacks.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 29, 2018

Hire a professional marketing and public relations agency once you have a good revenue stream but you don’t need them to start a free blog, establish Facebook and Twitter accounts with initial content and complete the basics of search engine optimization. Tackling most of the support tasks yourself. Use social media for early marketing.

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Gust

OCTOBER 21, 2015

High net worth individuals become angel investors for a number of reasons, but the opportunity to work with entrepreneurs and provide guidance to founders is typically high on the list. In this video, angel investor Chenoa Farnsworth explains why, interestingly, both the biggest Read more >.

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Growthink Blog

MAY 23, 2013

Importantly, the Center for Venture Research found that the number of angel investors providing the funding last year was 268,160 individuals. So, clearly, there are a lot of angel investors out there. So, you''re probably thinking: how do I find these angel investors? First, ask everyone you know (e.g.,

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 5, 2014

Hire a professional marketing and public relations agency once you have a good revenue stream but you don’t need them to start a free blog, establish Facebook and Twitter accounts with initial content and complete the basics of search engine optimization. Tackling most of the support tasks yourself. Use social media for early marketing.

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This is going to be BIG.

MAY 29, 2012

Over the course of the lifetime of a new angel investor, they'll do 70% of all of the angel investments they'll ever make in year one. 2) Network with as many other angel investors as possible. It's not such a bad idea for angel investors either. 4) Journal your progress.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 16, 2018

As an angel investor, I routinely toss business plans that focus too much on today, and don’t talk about tomorrow. Of course, you may not have the time or desire to read through every document in your space, but it’s not so hard to find and follow some key influencer blogs on social media.

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Up and Running

APRIL 7, 2015

When you pitch a startup to angel investors, you want to get questions. Don’t expect that when you’re pitching real angels. Right or wrong, most angel investors consider themselves busy, full of insight, and worth listening to as much as they are worth talking to. See Also How to Impress Angel Investors.

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Growthink Blog

APRIL 15, 2014

While this might depict an "angel," it certainly is a far cry from the definition of an "angel investor." Below I define exactly what an "angel investor" is along with answers to the other most common angel investor questions. What is An Angel Investor? That is what they do for a living.

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Growthink Blog

AUGUST 6, 2013

There are hundreds of thousands of individual or "angel" investors in the United States (and many more throughout the world). This is many, many times greater than the mere 6,000 members of angel investor groups. And here''s the key: the vast majority of these individual investors are what I call "latent angel investors."

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Growthink Blog

OCTOBER 1, 2013

There are eight key things angel investors will look for when considering whether or not to fund your business. No matter how good your venture is, if the investor doesn''t like you, they generally won''t fund you. There are five sub-criteria to this, which get us to our sum of eight things angel investors want. #4a:

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Hunter Walker

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

Here are a few essays, articles, blog posts, etc that I’ve enjoyed recently. Founder Vesting [Jared Hecht/USV] – Jared joined USV earlier this year and it’ll be interesting to see how his writing changes as he adds ‘institutional VC’ to his founder and angel investor knowledge. Was it spon con?

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 2, 2023

There is no standard course for this, but the answers are accessible online, if you know how to search, follow blogs, and interact with the relevant social media groups. Entrepreneurs should be monitoring online curator platforms and blogs. Business financial aid alternatives.

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Gust

FEBRUARY 8, 2016

The post Angel Investors Spotlight: An Inside Look at Hudson Valley Startup Fund’s Investment Process & Advice for Founders appeared first on The Gust Blog. Read more >.

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Growthink Blog

MARCH 21, 2013

The other two funding options are typically in the form of equity, and they are 1) equity from individual or "angel" investors and 2) equity from venture capitalists. Furthermore, angel funding is often a better option since it is much easier to attain. So why do angel investors fund entrepreneurs? read more.

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Up and Running

AUGUST 18, 2014

Startups tend to rely on capital that comes via angel investors or venture capital firms while small business operations may rely on loans and grants. “Startups looking for angel investors or venture capital (VC) absolutely need an exit strategy because investors require it. appeared first on Bplans Blog.

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Growthink Blog

JULY 20, 2012

Importantly, the Center for Venture Research found that the number of angel investors providing the funding last year was 318,480 individuals. That's a lot of angel investors. So, the question that entrepreneurs always ask me is "how do I find these angel investors." who they might know.

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Growthink Blog

MARCH 11, 2012

These other entrepreneurs can provide funding to you as "angel investors." They can introduce you to other angel investors they know. One of the key points I want to stress here is the answer to the question I get all the time: where do I go to find angel investors? Importantly, I'm not a great networker.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 25, 2010

I recently read a book I’d highly recommend to every reader of this blog called “ Yes, 50 Scientifically Proven Ways to be Persuasive &# by Robert B. So you need to find anchor tenants who have authority in your field and who are respected by other angel investors in order to maximize the benefits of social proof.

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Professor VC

MAY 29, 2008

What does it take to be an Angel Investor? To the SEC, it means that you are an accredited investor and To the man (or woman) on the street, a minimum qualification would seem to be an interest and ability to invest in early stage ventures. I think this sentiment has given angel groups a bad name. Blog Archive.

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ReadWriteStart

JUNE 1, 2020

Equity investors. The third source of funding is from equity investors. Under this category, you have the angel investors who would invest their own money and Venture Capital or VC firms, who manage funds aimed towards specific startup sectors and stages. For mature businesses, there are Private Equity or PE firms. ?

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Business Plan Blog

DECEMBER 9, 2013

5 Tips to Appeal to Angel Investors. Often times, entrepreneurs get rejected from Angel after Angel because they neglect to understand the essential components that appeal to Angel investors. Angel investors usually have an industry profile that they feel comfortable investing in.

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Growthink Blog

OCTOBER 13, 2011

What does this mean in terms of number of companies funded by angels, and the number of angel investors? Well, the study estimated that 26,300 entrepreneurs received angel funding during the first half of 2011. And the number of angel investors who funded these companies: a whopping 124,900 individuals.

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Growthink Blog

JANUARY 24, 2012

What it also means is that if you want to raise equity capital, you need to rely more heavily on individual or "angel" investors. While angel investors have always been a huge source of early stage equity funding, they are now more important than ever. So, how should you decide if angel funding is right for you?

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Growthink Blog

MAY 13, 2012

Getting funding from angel investors is the same way. Because the most important time you spend influencing potential investors is done long before you present to them, even long before you even contact them; it's done when you prepare your company for funding. So how do you prepare? Here they are below.

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Scalable Startup

OCTOBER 18, 2013

via 5Q03: Puneet Agarwal (True Ventures) on pitching investors, maker culture, and big trends he’s watching. — via 5Q03: Puneet Agarwal (True Ventures) on pitching investors, maker culture, and big trends he’s watching. — The Orchestrate.io The Orchestrate.io

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Up and Running

AUGUST 12, 2014

In as much as a scheduled interview with an angel investor can be, talking with Boris about what it takes to spark the interest of a venture capital firm was a coincidence. If youve ever pitched a venture capitalist or angel investor, or if you have any thoughts on the conversation we shared, let me know in the comments below.

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Up and Running

AUGUST 19, 2014

Got a question for one of the angel investors mentioned below? Today is Ask an Angel day! Tips from real angel investors about how to impress them and stand out from the crowd. Many angels are entrepreneurs themselves, or executives and business or community leaders. How Angels Invest.

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The Equity Kicker

SEPTEMBER 24, 2014

It went up on their blog yesterday. _. These two developments combine to make startup investing much more exciting than it ever used to be and we have seen a massive increase in the number of individuals who want to be angel investors. I wrote the post below for Crowdcube , one of the UK’s leading equity crowdfuding sites.

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YoungUpstarts

JUNE 1, 2019

In the go-to-product phase, you can get help from a plethora of incubators, accelerators and angel investors. There are no seminal books and few insightful blogs for them to turn to. But when it comes to that crucial second phase – go-to-market – entrepreneurs find themselves devoid of help and support.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 6, 2020

There is no standard course for this, but the answers are accessible online, if you know how to search, follow blogs, and interact with the relevant social media groups. Entrepreneurs should be monitoring online curator platforms and blogs. Business financial aid alternatives.

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Feld Thoughts

JANUARY 2, 2014

When people ask me how they can become a VC, I point them to my partner Seth Levine’s excellent blog posts How to become a venture capitalist and How to get a job in venture capital (revisited). Along the way, a number of the companies I had invested in as an angel investor raised money from VCs.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 9, 2021

As a mentor to startups and new entrepreneurs, I continue to hear the refrain that business plans are no longer required for a new startup, since investors never read them anyway. The ability to communicate effectively is critical to standing above the crowd.

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Up and Running

SEPTEMBER 15, 2014

So before you read these tips, first understand the difference between venture capital and angel investment and then you can add in 5 essentials for angel investment. And keep in mind, as you read that, that venture capital demands everything that angel investors do, and more. Are you still with me?

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