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How and Why To Be an Angel Investor

David Teten

In 2013, 298,800 angels invested in 70,730 entrepreneurial ventures, according to the 2013 Angel Market Analysis by the Center for Venture Research at the University of New Hampshire. Angel investors are generally former entrepreneurs and/or executives, who invest in privately-held, early-stage companies.

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Looking Back On Our First Couple Years at NextView

Rob Go

One of the earliest things we did at NextView when my partners and I started working together was go away as a team to the New Hampshire mountains. On Monday, we are going back to the New Hampshire Mountains for what I think will be our 8th quarterly team offsite. That was a couple years ago.

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Episode 14: Be Your Own Boss, Restaurant Owners, and Friendliest Cities for Businesses | The Bcast

Up and Running

You can go so far in a single direction with too much freedom that maybe that’s not the best for people around you, or employees, or partners. That’s probably one of the biggest challenges, and one of the things you should do in the early stages. Manchester New Hampshire, out of no where. Is that right?

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Asset Management Is A Bizarre Industry Ripe For Disruption

David Teten

In the asset management industry, the norm is that the General Partner puts in 1-2% of the total assets under management. This may make sense from the individual perspective of a given VC, but collectively it ensures that early-stage companies are overvalued. However, those angels constitute only about 5% of the estimated 5.1