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Angel Investing Skill 2 – Domain Knowledge

Both Sides of the Table

The most interesting thing I’ve learned by being an investor and sitting on boards & seeing so many company pitches is how different reality of what is going on at companies is from what you’re reading about them in the press. Tags: Startup Advice Tech Market Analysis VC Industry.

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Should Your Startup Have an Advisory Board?

Both Sides of the Table

This is part of my ongoing series Startup Advice. Many startup companies hire advisory boards. So do advisory boards really add value? In my experience most advisory boards under deliver relative to expectations. My main advice to you if you’re considering it is don’t waste much equity on it.

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Three Exercises Every First Time Venture Fund Needs to Work Through

This is going to be BIG.

If you’re lacking for track record as a firm, here’s three exercises you should walk through to help turn your pitch and due diligence meetings from guesswork into something more substantive. Taking board seats? You take your investment model and run it against the past to see if it would have worked. For how long?

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A Weird and Wacky Approach To Angel Investing

OnStartups

An Odd Start To My Angel Investing. So I thought of an idea: Why not invest in startups? Angel investing is like having a niece or nephew. During the first week of that class, we all had to do a short pitch of a startup idea and convince our classmates to join our “startup”.

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TechCrunch+ roundup: 2022 VC predictions, how to hook an angel, product advisory councils

TechCrunch

“If you believe VR and immersive computing is the future — whether for consumer or business use cases — Activision helps Microsoft build a flywheel of content and technology that gets more users on board to this future.”. Changes to corporate investing rules could diminish China’s resilient venture landscape.

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Gust Blog - Thoughts on startups by investors that fund them

Gust

For example, with any outside investment, you give up some ownership and control, and with bootstrapping your growth curve will likely be longer and more organic. Power Pitches. If you’re doing investment pitches, you should read this book. It seems like good advice to me. Invested Interests.

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The Search: Finding Your Angel Collaboration Platform

Angel Capital Association

The Search: Finding Your Angel Collaboration Platform The Angel Capital Association, in concert with Jeffrey Lang of the Desert Angels and ACA’s proud partner Dealum , has published this informative interview on one of 2023’s most important topics in the angel investment space: angel group collaboration.