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How to Find and Close Angel Investors from a Standing Start

View from Seed

Whether an entrepreneur is raising a smaller (pre-)seed round entirely from individuals or she has a seed-stage or larger VC firm involved in (leading) the seed syndicate, it’s somewhere between necessary and optimal to have multiple individual angel investors involved. First and foremost, angels can provide capital. Affinity by industry.

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The NextView Ventures Manifesto

View from Seed

We are also seeing more investors try to be a part of syndicated A rounds for companies that are raising $5M or more and are really not what most would consider “seed” stage. We have offices in New York and Boston, are quite active in the SF Bay area and see significant activity from the diaspora to and from these human capital centers.

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Our Investing Manifesto at NextView

Rob Go

We are also seeing more investors try to be a part of syndicated A rounds for companies that are raising $5M or more and are really not what most would consider “seed” stage. We have offices in New York and Boston, are quite active in the SF Bay area and see significant activity from the diaspora to and from these human capital centers.

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Demand Generation: Turn Ideal Buyers Into Superheroes

ConversionXL

They also did a lot of self-directed research checking all sorts of sources, from social media to syndicated content to category- or industry-specific resources.” – Beth Caplow, VP and Principal Analyst at Forrester [via Forrester ]. Why would I buy real estate from someone who doesn’t know New York?”.

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What Is NextView’s Focus? Another Stroll Through Our Portfolio

Rob Go

Geography: 20 / 25 investments are based in the Boston and New York areas. Type of Product and Business: Consumer vs. B2B. Syndicate Composition: NextView + Seed Funds + Angels: 9. Three of our portfolio companies have been acquired (RentJuice by Zillow, Hyperpublic by Groupon, and One Jackson by TaskRabbit).

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Transcript of How to Turn Marketing Costs Into Profit

Duct Tape Marketing

That show daily turned into the Red Bull, which now has two million subscribers and then all the videos and the syndication and they’re having The New York Times and Wall Street Journal pay them money for some of their content. They wanted to do a show daily. I mean, that stuff happened from just an idea.

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LinkedIn Explores What It Takes To Be an Entrepreneur [INFOGRAPHIC]

mashable.com

Not surprisingly, San Francisco was the top startup region, with New York City in second place and Boston in third. With more than 50 million monthly pageviews and 4 million followers across social media, Mashable has one of the most engaged online news communities. Reproduction without explicit permission is prohibited.