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Term-sheets and Valuations: Thinking about Negotiations - Startups.

Tim Keane

« Power of Angel Investing in Milwaukee | Main. For angel groups, the distinction between groups and VCs on this issue is dwindling, especially as angel groups do bigger rounds of financing.   Note that this applies only to earl stage Series A-type equity financings and assumes no cash dividends are paid to investors.

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People are the whole game - Startups and angels: Along the way to.

Tim Keane

In brief, my own story involves a software company called RTMS in Milwaukee.   They have a growth metric – one measurement of success – that focuses the attention of the entire enterprise. Here in America, 95+% of all entrepreneurs never have had any external investment financing. It was bootstrapped. It was bootstrapped.