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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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2011 Valuation Survey of North American Angel Groups

Gust

Speaking with many angel leaders , I believe we have identified several possible explanations for group-to-group variations: 1) Clearly, startup ventures in some business verticals command high pre-money valuations that others. Finally, all analysis and conclusions are those of the author. Any errors or misinterpretations are his.

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

David Teten

Hilary Mason , Data Scientist in Residence at Accel Partners , has a TED talk on how she replaces herself with a shell script to handle her email deluge. The VC Software Stack — the Untouched Vertical. 4) Manage deal flow. She is a model for us all! . 9) Time, market, and exit investment. A (Micro) VC’s Tech Stack. *

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

David Teten

At Flow Capital, we use HubSpot’s sequences and workflows functions to automate a bulk of our emails and internal tasks. I use Superhuman , an email app which speeds up my email processing, and also gives me background information on all of my correspondents. the Untouched Vertical. She is a model for us all!

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10 Essential PR Tips for Startups

mashable.com

Share on Tumblr email share Share on Tumblr email share. Journalists get tons of pitches every day — it’s very likely that the journalist you’re pitching will only read the first few sentences of your email. People generally don’t like to be part of blast emails, and journalists are no exception.

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Google VP: Here's How to Get Bought By Us

mashable.com

Email Story. I would like to know, what are the areas/vertical they are looking for acquisition? The Best Time to Send Emails, Tweets and Text Ads. Global Syndication Partners. Googles most recent and expensive acquisition to date occurred August 15, 2011 with its purchase of Motorola Mobility. Print Story. Acquisition.

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Why Your Startup's Name Matters

mashable.com

Email Story. Our startup creates custom vertical search and decision making engines for people or businesses with structured data. Global Syndication Partners. Stay tuned for the second part of the startup naming guide, where I’ll focus on actionable steps to help you create a compelling name. Print Story. Topics to follow.

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