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Hans Severiens Award Given to Tony Shipley

Angel Capital Association

Hans Severiens winners Tony Shipley, left, of Queen City Angels and Dan Rosen , right, of the Aliance of Angels. The Hans Severiens Award recognizes personal impact on the advancement of angel investing globally and highlights the special relationship that angels and entrepreneurs build to innovate, create jobs, and drive the economy.

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Valuation Workshop – The Art of Negotiation Between Investors and Founders

Angel Capital Association

By: Emily Angold, ACA Marketing Manager As an entrepreneur and seasoned angel investor, Bill Payne understands the critical importance of education to make well-informed decisions that determine the success or failure of a startup. In 2003 he was engaged in the formation and startup of the Angel Capital Association (ACA).

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The end or the beginning? Thoughts on the current startup environment

This is going to be BIG.

There is an enormous amount of angel capital available, while at the same time there is a small amount of Series A and a large and concentrated amount of late stage capital. Is 2012 going to be 2000 all over again? When the bubble burst in 2000, many of us felt it in our pockets. Are we in a bubble? Valuations.

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Why I Angel Invest

Angel Capital Association

I consider myself a furiously curious person, and angel investing is one of the most rewarding ways I’ve experienced to satisfy this curiosity. THE ORIGIN I was the Founder & CEO of InboxDollars from 2000 to 2019. About Daren Cotter : I founded InboxDollars from a dorm room (literally) as a college freshman in 2000.

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Venture Capital and the Art of the Deal: More of the Same

Angel Capital Association

Key takeaways: Well Defined Playing Field – The venture capital playing field is a well defined playing field. Since the early 2000’s the industry has coalesced around a standard set of deal documents that, with relatively minor modification, are used in the overwhelming majority of venture equity financings in the United States.

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How Angel Investors Survive the COVID-19 Economic Crisis

Angel Capital Association

Angel groups (or groups of Angels) can help a lot, both in terms of assessing deals and in making sure that there is a sufficient pool of capital and expertise to help companies succeed and thrive. The Alliance of Angels has survived the 2000 (dot com crash) and 2008 (mortgage crisis) downturns, with a group IRR of over 20%.

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The Equity Seller’s Bubble of 2021 Part 2 • 2022 From a Startup Equity Seller’s to an Equity Buyer’s Market

Angel Capital Association

The recovery following the Internet bubble collapse of 2000 similarly took three years. A return to higher valuations is usually triggered by a stronger IPO market. When will today’s moribund IPO market recover? The 1987 downturn took three years to recover. Recovery from the 2008 Great Recession took two years and was relatively weak.

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