David Teten

SEPTEMBER 16, 2014

Source: Center for Venture Research – Angel Market Analysis Report. Q: What is the typical profile of angel investors? Angel investors are generally former entrepreneurs and/or executives, who invest in privately-held, early-stage companies. Q: Why do people become angel investors? approx 2004-09.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 15, 2019

As a long-time business advisor and angel investor, I’m a believer that “two heads are better than one” in building a new business. The challenge is to recognize and recruit that ideal partner match early with minimal cost and risk. In fact, I would broaden the definition of partner from co-founder to “business partner.”

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 3, 2023

As an angel investor, I quickly learned that luck has very little to do with it, and I now look for some personal characteristics and leadership styles that separate the potential winners from the losers. These differences are the reason that investors say that they invest in people, rather than ideas. The rest is history.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 18, 2020

In addition to being the startup entrepreneur, there are other key roles where Boomers can be a force in driving successful startups, in concert with leaders from Gen-X and Gen-Y: Early-stage angel investors. Manage customer service. Personnel Manager. Supportive co-founder and executive positions.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 12, 2022

As an angel investor and a mentor to entrepreneurs I still see this every day. Then you must extend these alliances to vendors, partners, customers, and even competitors (coopetition). They insist on greater efficiency, try new business models, organizational improvements, and better cash management. Going the extra mile.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 26, 2019

As an advisor to business owners, and an occasional angel investor, my job is to separate the actual challenges from the common misconceptions that distract many promising entrepreneurs while building the leadership team required for your solution, marketing, and finance success. Partner with experts who share the risk.

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Berkonomics

OCTOBER 5, 2023

But first… There is a relationship between time and money that is more complex than most managers think. Since this number is budgeted and pre-authorized, managers tend to focus upon other things such as sales, marketing and product development issues. The art of good management. How about young or pre-revenue companies?

Silicon Valley 118

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Steve Blank

JANUARY 17, 2023

The culmination of this bootcamp is a “demo day” where all startups in the cohort have a few minutes to pitch their companies to venture capitalists and angel investors. (In I don’t have a killer idea, or a technical team, but I do know how to build, grow, and manage teams.”. There are thousands of accelerators across the globe.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 25, 2020

As an angel investor, I quickly learned that luck has very little to do with it, and I now look for some personal characteristics and leadership styles that separate the potential winners from the losers. These differences are the reason that investors say that they invest in people, rather than ideas. The rest is history.

Technical Review 308

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The Startup Magazine

MARCH 22, 2019

The question of venture capitalist versus angel investor often arises. Venture capital and angel investments offer excellent options to startup businesses. Investment firms are staffed with analysts, partners, and others to ensure deals are soundly vetted. Investor Involvement. Angel Investors.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 15, 2020

As an angel investor and a mentor to entrepreneurs I still see this every day. Then you must extend these alliances to vendors, partners, customers, and even competitors (coopetition). They insist on greater efficiency, try new business models, organizational improvements, and better cash management. Going the extra mile.

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ReadWriteStart

MARCH 9, 2021

Angel investors. An angel investor is an individual (and usually a wealthy one) who is willing to invest in small businesses. Angel investors aren’t as dedicated to the practice as VCs, so there’s often less competition for their attention. However, they may be harder to find, depending on where you live.

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The Startup Magazine

MARCH 14, 2022

Profitably managing and owning businesses with all the inherent risks have always defined the Indian entrepreneurial spirit. A business plan is drawn up to attract investors and partners. 5) Managing the operations. Promoters try to raise this funding majorly from Angel Investors. 3) Company formation.

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Genuine VC

FEBRUARY 12, 2012

Just as often, however, we’re investing alongside individual angel investors who are participating in the round as well. Angel investors come in many shapes and sizes, however. The choir of angel investors out there is comprised of a number of players which sing different parts: The Super Angel.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 1, 2014

In addition to being the startup entrepreneur, there are other key roles where Boomers can be a force in driving successful startups, in concert with leaders from Gen-X and Gen-Y: Early-stage Angel investors. Manage customer service. Personnel Manager. Supportive co-founder and executive positions.

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The Startup Magazine

NOVEMBER 28, 2018

The event presenter, FUND, is a national connector of entrepreneurs, VCs, angel investors, and industry experts with a focus on deal flow and making connections. The FUND Conference brings together over 100 startups to present their early-stage products and pitches in front of hundreds of investors and industry leaders.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 25, 2018

Even the homework is easier, with free and mobile access through the Internet to more business assistance sources, opportunity data, investors, and competitor details around the world. Yet, as an angel investor myself, I can attest that many potential entrepreneurs try to take shortcuts, or ignore the realities of business.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 27, 2013

He wrote a post this long weekend on how he manages the board of DataSift. Spend time building investor relationship long before you raise money. . Understanding where your VC partner sits in their respective fund and where their fund is in the cycle of its investment lifecycle will help you understand your VCs behavior.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 20, 2019

If angel investors are pressuring you to set up a board and if you don’t have the leverage to push back a little then I might suggest a 3-person board in which all 3 seats are appointed by the common stock and you agree to appoint one of these seats to the angel investor but perhaps make it either time based or event based.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 27, 2022

In my role as an angel investor to startups, I’m struck by the broad variety of advisor strategies I see in investor presentations and business plans that cross my desk. Keep the advisory board to a manageable size. In my experience, both of these approaches will likely have minimal value for your venture.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 28, 2014

It’s your startup, so you can give early partners any title you want, but be aware of potential investor and peer implications. VCs and Angel investors like to see a startup that is running lean and mean, with no more than three or four of the conventional C-level or VP titles. Chief Sales Officer (VP Sales).

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Up and Running

SEPTEMBER 29, 2022

In short, creating a business plan early on will make starting, managing, and growing your business easier. Find the right partners. When starting a business you’ll wear many hats—CEO, bookkeeper, manager, customer service representative, brand advocate—the list goes on and on. How will you manage your time?

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YoungUpstarts

MARCH 3, 2020

Vancouver executive Christopher Kape is an entrepreneur and venture capitalist who founded JAMCO Capital Partners , an early-stage investment and strategic advisory firm that focuses on a number of industries, including gaming, high-tech, food and wellness. The next group I would look to are angel investors.

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Gust

MAY 10, 2014

There is no such thing as a full-time angel investor (or if there is, I’ve never met one.). If you mean someone investing his or her own money, such an angel is likely to be investing into between 1 and 10 companies a year (I was doing 15 at my most active). Industry Experts angel investor David Rose VCs'

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 11, 2022

As a former angel investor, I look for this level of alignment and understanding in every funding presentation I hear. Investors are looking for the sum of all assets that are truly essential for creating, communicating, selling, and delivering your value proposition. Key partners. Key resources. Key activities.

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Gust

FEBRUARY 1, 2014

The ideal angel investor would spend a great deal of his/her time working on behalf of the company in support of the CEO, in every way other than being a full-time employee. As a result, angels can provide insights and experience that may be virtually impossible to obtain elsewhere.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 22, 2013

It’s your startup, so you can give early partners any title you want, but be aware of potential investor and peer implications. VCs and Angel investors like to see a startup that is running lean and mean, with no more than three or four of the conventional C-level or VP titles. Chief Sales Officer (VP Sales).

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Up and Running

DECEMBER 18, 2013

RocketHub also recently partnered with the TV channel A&E for marketing and funding help for their favorite fundraising campaigns. Kiva is a non-profit organization that partners with microfinance institutions (Kiva’s “field partners”) in third-world countries to offer small loans to budding entrepreneurs.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 29, 2021

If you need experienced partners and vendors, the best professors and entrepreneurship staff will have the contacts you need in the local business community. If you need part-time resources to build a prototype, you can always find hungry but high-caliber graduate and PhD students with the latest theory ready to work. Connections to a mentor.

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YoungUpstarts

DECEMBER 31, 2018

Sferra followed this by spending two years at Pinetree Capital, a small-cap focused firm and an angel investor in the mining, energy and technology sectors. But, the key is connecting great ideas with a talented team run by experienced management. I think every great company starts with an idea. So you can’t discount anybody.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 20, 2016

Thus the top priority of every entrepreneur who wants funding should be to build and highlight their “dream team” of co-founders, executives and advisers, to attract the biggest and best investors. Solo entrepreneurs rarely find an investor. When pitching to investors, weave in real-life stories of your best past creative solutions.

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Berkonomics

AUGUST 24, 2023

Smart money at the table… I have served on the boards of several companies with just such VC talent at the table, partners in firms that made subsequent investments in companies where I either made early investments or led a group of fellow investors in early rounds of finance.

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YoungUpstarts

MARCH 15, 2017

Unless you’re starting out as a sole trader/freelancer you may have already provisionally signed up a contact or two, but it’s important to remember that unless they’re business partners, they’ll be employees – and should be treated as such. Consider employing someone to help deal with these tasks, even if on just a part time basis.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 25, 2023

Based on my own experience as a mentor and angel investor, I find that as many as ninety percent of startups fail in the first five years, despite their best efforts. Network extensively for partners, investors, and suppliers. Use comparable metrics for managing team member results.

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The Startup Magazine

MARCH 29, 2024

Start by defining your key resources, activities, and partners. Whether it’s managing your supply chain or automating customer service, look for ways to optimise every aspect of your operations. PDF to Word conversion tools can be a lifesaver for managing documents efficiently.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 8, 2012

As an Angel investor, I quickly learned that luck has very little to do with it, and I now look for some personal characteristics and leadership styles that separate the potential winners from the losers. These differences are the reason that investors say that they invest in people, rather than ideas. The rest is history.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 4, 2013

As an Angel investor, I quickly learned that luck has very little to do with it, and I now look for some personal characteristics and leadership styles that separate the potential winners from the losers. These differences are the reason that investors say that they invest in people, rather than ideas. The rest is history.

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