Angel Capital Association

JULY 31, 2023

This is Part I of a two-part series on Revenue-Financed Capital (RFC) for angels. Part II will address the question of whether angels should include RFC in their investment portfolio. ACA member Sage Growth Capital hosted a meet-up of attendees who were interested in RFC at the recent ACA Summit in Las Vegas. On the last day of the Summit, Sage also presented a formal session on the nuts and bolts of RFC along with counsel Gary Kocher of K&L Gates and Sage investor Jb Beaird.

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Startup Blogpost

JULY 31, 2023

10 Marketing Tactics That Yielded Great Results for Startups In search of unique marketing tactics that have proven successful for startups, we asked ten leaders from the industry to share their experiences. From CEOs to Marketing Managers, these experts have provided a wealth of knowledge. Starting with the “Angel Writer” service that boosted growth, to a gamified referral program that enhanced loyalty, discover the top ten tactics that these leaders have used to great effect.

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The Seraf Compass

AUGUST 2, 2023

A group of angels turns up their nose at a company making a useful, well-targeted and well-validated computer peripheral product. The smart entrepreneur behind the company asks a pretty fundamental question in response: “Why do angel investors often turn up their noses at real, down-to-earth physical product companies and instead chase ethereal web and process flow services businesses?

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

JULY 31, 2023

The emails founders send potential investors can be the difference between getting millions and getting nothing.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

AUGUST 4, 2023

As an entrepreneur or founder starting a business, you may think of capital as purely monetary. Capital is often viewed only as an opportunity for an infusion of money into a business to get it started or grow and scale your company. Unfortunately, without a solid grasp of how capital — in its many different forms — can influence a business, too many founders make decisions early on in their companies that have unintended consequences down the line.

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Jason Malki

AUGUST 2, 2023

How Azibo’s Vikas Gupta is on a Mission to Streamline Property Management for Independent Real Estate Investors I had the pleasure of interviewing Vikas Gupta the CEO of Azibo , a unified financial and property management platform for independent real investors. Prior to Azibo, he was the founder at Nodabl, an HR-tech SaaS startup. Before that, Vikas ran product and strategy for The Baby Box Co, a Series A digital education platform for expecting parents.

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Andreessen Horowitz

AUGUST 1, 2023

SPEEDRUN began with a simple question: how can we support the best gaming founders at the earliest stages of their journey? Our answer was to craft a bespoke accelerator for the gaming industry. We invested in all 32 companies from … The post Announcing SPEEDRUN 2024: Accelerating Games x Tech appeared first on Andreessen Horowitz.

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AsiaTechDaily

AUGUST 2, 2023

Bookmark ( 0 ) Please login to bookmark Username or Email Address Password Remember Me No account yet? Register China has announced the extension of favorable taxation policies for venture capital firms and individual angel investors investing in tech startups. Initially introduced in 2018, the policies have now been extended until the end of 2027, as stated in a joint announcement by the Ministry of Finance and State Taxation Administration.

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Tomasz Tunguz

JULY 30, 2023

Earlier today, New Relic announced its sale to Francisco Partners & TPG for $6.5b. The acquisition is notable for two reasons. First, it accelerates the momentum within the technology buyout space. At its current pace, technology buyout volumes of venture-backed technology companies will tie or exceed the ten year high, charted in 2022 of about $20b.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 4, 2023

Twitch streamers Kai Cenat and Fanum invited fans to Union Square on Friday for a real-life stream and giveaway. They promised to hand out gift cards, gaming PC equipment and PlayStation 5s. But the IRL stream descended into chaos as frenzied fans crowded over the giveaway, shutting down lower Manhattan in the aftermath. Cenat, who has 6.5 million Twitch followers and 4 million YouTube subscribers , advertised the New York City giveaway in now-deleted tweets.

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Andreessen Horowitz

AUGUST 1, 2023

Open source is the bedrock upon which all modern applications are built. But here’s the elephant in the room: There is a huge attack surface hidden within this seemingly solid foundation, and the proliferation of open source usage has opened … The post Investing in Socket appeared first on Andreessen Horowitz.

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AsiaTechDaily

AUGUST 2, 2023

Bookmark ( 0 ) Please login to bookmark Username or Email Address Password Remember Me No account yet? Register ‘This is Engineering Inc. ‘, a UAM (Urban Air Mobility) company based in Pangyo Techno Valley (CEO Yoo-jeong Hong), has launched SHIFT ZEROLAP, South Korea’s first commercial drone delivery service. Starting from August 1st, the service commenced operations at two water parks in Tancheon, Bundang-gu, Seongnam.

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

AUGUST 4, 2023

It’s impossible to simultaneously please your existing customers and your potential ones The North Star of Building Products Any sustainable business must achieve two things: a way to attract and convert new customers to the product, and a way to retain existing ones. As time goes on, in a perfect world, we’d be serving both of these customer segments with an ever-improving value proposition.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 4, 2023

Autonomous-driving company Pony.ai and Toyota say they’re teaming up with the goal of one day cranking out a bunch of “fully driverless robotaxis.” The two companies intend to kick off their partnership sometime this year with around $139 million in capital from GAC Toyota Motor Co. — a joint venture between Toyota China and GAC, a Chinese state-owned automaker.

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Jason Malki

AUGUST 3, 2023

I had the pleasure of interviewing Andres Balcazar, Chief of Staff at Lido. Andres, an Industrial Engineer by training, was previously investing in the B2B vSaaS space and comes from a background of strategy consulting. He is also an angel investor and former EdTech entrepreneur. How did you break into tech investing? When I launched WePrep in college, I was researching key drivers for startup success and was introduced to the world of VC.

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AsiaTechDaily

AUGUST 4, 2023

Bookmark ( 0 ) Please login to bookmark Username or Email Address Password Remember Me No account yet? Register Malaysia’s eco-friendly energy solutions provider, Gentari Sdn Bhd (Gentari), has joined forces with automaker BMW Malaysia (BMW) in a partnership for green mobility services and solutions alongside the deployment of renewable energy.

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Red Rocket

AUGUST 4, 2023

Contrary to prevailing storytelling that it just arrived in the waning months of 2022, artificial intelligence has been around for decades. I won't bore you with the entire history (though it's summarized well in this article ); suffice it to say that it has played a significant role in the marketing industry for decades, including in predictive analytics used in many advertising platforms.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 4, 2023

Two years ago, EV startup Fisker seemed to have hooked a giant when it announced a deal with Taiwanese iPhone maker Foxconn to build a sub-$30,000 crossover in the United States. It turns out that deal hasn’t been finalized, according to comments Fisker founder and CEO Henrik Fisker made during an interview with TechCrunch. “In the Foxconn deal specifically, we don’t yet have a final conclusion to this deal,” Fisker told TechCrunch on the sidelines of an event in Huntingt

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Jason Malki

AUGUST 3, 2023

I had the pleasure of interviewing Sebastian Spitzer. Sebastian led Innovation Management in 3 verticals before becoming a corporate intrapreneur in the automotive industry in 2017, where he created numerous in-house startups, going through ideation to scale-up stages. Currently, he is a venture specialist for emerging technologies at Schaeffler and manages start-up ecosystems for partnering and investments.

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AsiaTechDaily

AUGUST 3, 2023

Bookmark ( 0 ) Please login to bookmark Username or Email Address Password Remember Me No account yet? Register HashKey Exchange has become the inaugural recipient of a license under Hong Kong’s new cryptocurrency regulatory framework. The approval allows the platform to legally facilitate the retail trading of tokens, as authorities aim to cultivate Hong Kong as a global hub for the crypto industry.

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

AUGUST 2, 2023

It takes knowing one to avoid becoming one Continue reading on Entrepreneur's Handbook »

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Start-ups & SMBs launching products quickly must bundle dashboards, reports, & self-service analytics into apps. Customers expect rapid value from your product (time-to-value), data security, and access to advanced capabilities. Traditional Business Intelligence (BI) tools can provide valuable data analysis capabilities, but they have a barrier to entry that can stop small and midsize businesses from capitalizing on them.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 4, 2023

Astra has laid off 25% of its workforce since the beginning of the quarter and is reallocating at least 50 engineers and manufacturing staff away from its launch business to focus on spacecraft production, the company said Friday. The reallocation and layoffs are expected to delay testing of the under-development Rocket 4 and Launch System 2.0, Astra said.

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Jason Malki

AUGUST 1, 2023

I had the pleasure of interviewing Timothy Chen, the General Partner of Essence VC , which is an early stage developer + infrastructure focused fund. Essence started in 2019 and backed amazing companies like Motherduck, Modal, Warp.dev, Sardine.ai and Jasper.ai. Tim was previously the CEO / founder of Hyperpilot, which is a startup backed by top funds like NEA and Bessemer aiming to run Kubernetes on autopilot that achieves 5–10x cost and performance benefits.

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AsiaTechDaily

JULY 31, 2023

Bookmark ( 0 ) Please login to bookmark Username or Email Address Password Remember Me No account yet? Register Vuihoc , an ed-tech platform catering to K-12 Vietnamese students, recently secured a significant US$6 million investment in a Series A funding round led by TNB Aura. The funding also had participation from TKG Taekwang, IBK-STIC Pioneer Fund, and existing investors, including Do Ventures, BAce Capital, and Vulpes, further highlighting the confidence in the startup’s potential.

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

AUGUST 4, 2023

We interviewed the likes of Ev Williams (Founder of Twitter, Medium, and Blogger) and Marc Randolph (Founder of Netflix) in Season One of the EH Podcast. There are over 50 hours of recordings live at the moment. That’s tough to catch up! That’s why you can download our Ebook with 50 top lessons for free below handpicked by our editors. Download our free Ebook here!

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