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Understanding Different Types of Angel Investors

View from Seed

Investors in this category are usually operating executives who have spent their entire careers in a specific industry vertical, like internet travel, for example. Pros: Industry-insider who serves as a validator for the rest of the investment syndicate, extremely helpful advice and network connections. The Previous-Colleague Angel.

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VCs eating our own dog food: Using technology and analytics to make better investments

David Teten

To learn more about this space, I suggest join an online community I co-founded, PEVCTech. . Data companies focused on early-stage startups include Aingel , fundsUP , Preseries , PredictLeads , and Sploda. The Pocket Negotiator is very early-stage attempt to aid in the negotiating process itself.

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How Private Equity and Venture Capital Investors Are Eating Their Own Dogfood

David Teten

My colleagues Sebastian Soler , Steven Greenberg and I recently launched a new online community, PEVCTech.com , exclusively for PE/VC investors; engineers who work at PE/VC funds; and other technologists who specialize in working on this problem. The Pocket Negotiator is very early-stage attempt to aid in the negotiating process itself. .

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Announcing Techstars AngelList Funds for Mentors and Alumni

Feld Thoughts

A key ingredient of Techstars accelerator programs is our experienced and engaged mentor community. As Techstars continues to selectively expand into new geographies and industry verticals, our mentors are important as ever. At Foundry Group, we learned a lot by running our own FG Angels syndicate.

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Why Your Startup's Name Matters

mashable.com

Naming can be one of the most difficult challenges in the early stages of a startup. Our startup creates custom vertical search and decision making engines for people or businesses with structured data. Global Syndication Partners. We did a lot of brainstorming and research to come up with the name WebKite.

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10 Essential PR Tips for Startups

mashable.com

Not to mention, early-stage startups usually only employ a few people focused on product and development. For example, here is how a few of my favorite startups describe themselves: “ Airbnb is a trusted community marketplace for people to list, discover and book unique spaces around the world online or from an iPhone.”

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Why VCs Explaining “It Was Only 4% Of Our Fund” Is Misleading Minimization When a High Flying Startup Implodes.

Hunter Walker

As cofounder of an early stage venture fund myself, I’m here to tell you that while these statements are accurate, they’re also misleading when trying to understand the broad impact these implosions may have upon a firm. This is less of a problem when the entire vertical falls apart (think of the last generation of scooter startups).