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How Investors Are Increasing Their Returns Through Collaboration and Technology

David Teten

The first panel will focus on public markets and will discuss the use and effectiveness of social media tools and data mining technologies in harnessing the wisdom of crowds to generate investment ideas. Howard Lindzon is Co-Founder and CEO of StockTwits, a social network for traders and investors to share real-time ideas and information.

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9 Tips for Raising Startup Funds on AngelList

mashable.com

Look for Your Lead Investor. First you’ll want to find a lead investor — someone many other investors will recognize and respect. This list of top angel investors is a good start. Latest Social Media News. Web Video Roundup. The Social Good Brief. Social Media Lists.

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Disconnected Home

This is going to be BIG.

As the lead investor in the company''s seed round, you''d think I''d be really bullish about the connected home, especially after their record Indiegogo pre-sale netted them almost $2 million in purchases. I''ve been getting effectively that same service because there''s a web connected device in every room, and I stream.

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What the AngelList Debate Means for the Future of Startup Investing

www.readwriteweb.com

Instead of investors holding onto proprietary connections and introductions for their portfolio companies, these relationships are being displaced by the dominate social networks ( Facebook , Linkedin , Quora ). The startups and investors can do the round however they like. AngelList is a community. startupcto

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Top 40 Startup Posts for August 2010

SoCal CTO

He blogs to 10,000 web entrepreneurs at Software by Rob and co-hosts the podcast Startups for the Rest of Us. What Apple proved, and what I suspect is the issue with web content, is that monetization was a product problem. While I agree that many VCs are crummy seed investors, I think there are some that are excellent seed investors.

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ProfessorVC: Watch Out for the Red W(h)ine

Professor VC

I laughed and said that our web site made this clear and we may have even put a brief posting to this effect on our twitter feed. In how many of those were you a lead investor? What percentage of your members are not active angel investors (i.e. How many investments have you made this year? Average size? ► 2010. (7).

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ProfessorVC: The Most Important Venture Capital Statistic

Professor VC

This brought in a new set of prospective investors and required a lower investment from the lead investor as our existing investors were committed and on board. Our lead investor, Triangle Peak Partners closed on a $170 million first fund in late 2008. Tuesday, January 20, 2009. ► January. (1).