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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. Software developers like to spend time with like-minded developers.

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The Difference Between Apple & Facebook ? AGILEVC

Agile VC

Apple and Facebook are both platforms , in the sense that their software and user networks are utilized by countless software developers to build their own businesses. billion to developers and Apple paid out something like $2B or so. June 5, 2012. In 2011 Facebook paid out $1.4 What’s Your Favorite Future?

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Just Starting Up: 15 Bloggers You Should Read

Early Growth Financial Services

Gene Marks Gene is the leading expert on small businesses, with an active readership across multiple syndication platforms. Martin Zwilling Martin has 30 years of executive experience in all aspects of building a company: including product management, marketing, and software development. Small Business 1.

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How early should you connect to a VC? Here's some data.

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It''s also not the best way to create a helpful syndicate of investors that share the founder''s vision for the company. If it turned out that the best experiences I''ve had as an investor come from knowing someone a long time, I might go to events that are more around a specialty, like software development or design.

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Twitter Link Roundup #224 – Small Business, Startups, Innovation, Social Media, Design, Marketing and More

crowdSPRING Blog

Syndicate Funding on AngelList – A Company’s Perspective – crowdspring.co/Sl0HEA. Legal Contracts for Software Developers Who Hate Contracts (w/free contract template to use today) – [link]. 10 Code Playgrounds for Developers – crowdspring.co/1jB2aSC. Do Entrepreneurs Get Better With Age? |

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Transcript of How to Prepare to Sell Your Business

Duct Tape Marketing

He’s been a developer/hacker for over 15 years, and he sold his first startup, VinSolutions for $150 million. I grew up working in flea markets, and my family was entrepreneurial, not in the tech side of things or anything, but in different ways, and was always working side projects and jobs for people as a developer.

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The Texas Startup Manifesto

Austin Startup

The angel investor groups such as the Central Texas Angel Network and Houston Angel Network syndicate deals with each other but it’s still the exception not the norm for an Austin startup to have investors from Dallas or Houston, even thought that’s where much of the wealth in Texas is. Successful startups aren’t based in just one city.

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