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8 Angel Funding Realities In Search Of A New Venture

Startup Professionals Musings

Groups of angels may syndicate multiple individual amounts, but if your total request exceeds $1 million, you need to focus on the venture capital alternatives. Look to grants and strategic partners for seed funding. They prefer local opportunities where they can meet and work face-to-face with your team.

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How to Scale a Venture Capital (or Private Equity) Fund

David Teten

My Partners at HOF Capital are younger than I am, which means that we have a half-century horizon for the franchise we are building. Among the sites we have found most helpful with practical guides for founders: Biztree , First Search , Foundersuite , Goodwin Founders Workbench , Guides.co , Inc.com , and StartupRocket. .

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Making Good Decisions Still Means You're Sometimes Wrong.

Agile VC

My partners and I would be thrilled to support this founder in general, but we don’t have enough conviction about the market opportunity he and his co-founders are pursuing to proceed with an investment. My partners and I at NextView know we’ll be wrong a decent chunk of the time, especially as seed stage investors.

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28 Entrepreneurs Explain How They Came Up With Their Business Names

Hearpreneur

I was playing with thesaurus.com and cross-referencing anything I liked the sound of against what showed up in a google search results. Luckily I didn’t have to – a friend ended up texting me and my business partner, suggesting the name Codal. If you search for Rantizo now, the first non-company result is on page 5 of the search.

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The most important 2021 Predictions in entertainment tech and gaming

VC Cafe

In a world without cookies, we’ll see smart alternatives to targeting that avoid cookies altogether: contextual targeting, time-based targeting, and using syndicated and custom audiences, according to the 2021 media trends and predictions by Kantar. It’s hard to make predictions about the future.

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GrabCAD & Professional Communities ? AGILEVC

Agile VC

All of us at NextView are psyched to support the company into it’s next phases of growth along with the rest of the investor syndicate. How to Evaluate Firms for a Seed VC Syndicate 10 July 2012, 5:13 pm What A VC Orders for Breakfast Says 27 June 2012, 10:16 am To Leave or Not to Leave as Your Startup Grows 12 June 2012, 12:21 pm.

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Cliff Notes S-1: Kayak ? AGILEVC

Agile VC

What They Do: Travel search engine. How They Do It: Aggregate data from travel data warehouses like ITA as well as indexing travel providers websites, provide this information to consumers in a highly customizable search engine. Search Statistics: 2010 Queries: 634 million. Founding Date: 2004. 2010 Net Income: $8 million.