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Angel Investing: Skill 3 – Relationships with VCs

Both Sides of the Table

But knowing the right people and knowing a market only works well for angel investors in bullish tech markets in which IPO’s happen quickly (97-99) or where larger companies are actively scooping up little tiny companies at sub $50 million valuations to drive innovation (05-08, 10-?). So where are we now? It’s hard to say.

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Angel Investing: Skill 3 – Relationships with VCs

Both Sides of the Table

But knowing the right people and knowing a market only works well for angel investors in bullish tech markets in which IPO’s happen quickly (97-99) or where larger companies are actively scooping up little tiny companies at sub $50 million valuations to drive innovation (05-08, 10-?). So where are we now? It’s hard to say.

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Behind the Scenes: Building an Angel Experience You Will Never Forget

Angel Capital Association

By: Sarah Dickey, ACA Membership Director The programming team for ACA 2021 - The Summit of Angel Investing is full of experienced, respected angel investors and ecosystem providers, and they are hard at work creating a virtual experience that will change the way you think about angel investing.

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Gust Blog - Thoughts on startups by investors that fund them

Gust

And in January I saw that digital music overtook physical media for the first time in 2011, something I expected since 1998. I think I’m an innovator myself, but I know I’m not an opinion leader. Both products were innovative leaders. In both cases what surprises me is not that it happened, but how long it took.

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Probable and Improbable Lobbying Wins: The 1,000-stockholder Rule

Gust

In 2011, virtually every new consumer Internet startup incorporates a social/UGC element. SOPA would disproportionately alter the risk profile for new startups, which are thinly capitalized compared to the giants like Google and Facebook.

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Don't blame the game, blame the playas

This is going to be BIG.

Not only that, but there's a "Series A Crunch" that we've been talking about since October of 2011 where good companies can't seem to get to their next round of funding. B) That the people who are trying to profit off innovation--the entrepreneurs and VCs--for whom there is no criteria to try your hand at it, are generally sucking at it.

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How Ecosystem-Led Growth Unlocks the Next Generation of GTM

Andreessen Horowitz

Then by 2011 or 2012, some of the tech components of the Great Recession had started wearing off and the market started waking up. From late 2011 until maybe 2015, RJMetrics was… the leads were flying in and falling off of our desk more days than not. We found that we had this just incredible product market fit.

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