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Angel Investing 4 – Why You Need Deep Pockets to Win Big

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I know some people think the whole market has been disrupted and startups and funding work differently these days. Total disruption on the funding market? This is the same with angel investing. Protecting every investment – including bad hands – is a losing strategy in poker & in angel investing.

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“Putting adVenture back into Venture Capital!”- Jeshua Soh’s Unique Approach to Investing

AsiaTechDaily

This gave me a front-row seat to the world of tech/innovation, and I began making some personal angel investments along the way.” However, it quickly evolved into a platform facilitating remote team management for over 40 companies globally, providing job opportunities amidst the disruption caused by the COVID-19 pandemic.

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5 Tips for New Angel Investors

This is going to be BIG.

Over the course of the lifetime of a new angel investor, they'll do 70% of all of the angel investments they'll ever make in year one. Consider not only joining existing angel investors but recruiting other successful investors from your industry to join you as well. 3) Start with funds. 5) Focus.

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What Makes an Entrepreneur (5/11) – Inspiration

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And I’ll bet that the leadership he displayed helped his angel decide he had the character worth backing. Some readers of this blog also pointed out that “pivoting&# can be disruptive on the employees of an organization. Tags: Entrepreneur Advice Start-up Advice Startup Advice. That’s true.

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Marketing Cube founder Maya Moufarek’s lessons for customer-focused startups

TechCrunch

One lesson — which was especially true at Amex — is to always be prepared for shifting markets that may disrupt your business. That may seem strange advice for a new startup, but the economy is volatile and things change very fast. On the other side, what are startups doing better now than ever before?

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Gust Blog - Thoughts on startups by investors that fund them

Gust

Investment and startups problem : we all want disruptive and game-changing businesses. It seems like good advice to me. Invested Interests. This year for every plan that really looks like it might be disruptive or game changing I saw 20 or so that claimed to be. . It had eight gigabytes of storage. I like that.

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In 15 Years From Now Half of US Universities May Be in Bankruptcy. My Surprise Discussion with @ClayChristensen

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Disruption of Education. He talked about how for centuries education had “no technological core” (meaning it was bound by physical locations) and thus disruption was very difficult. We spoke about the disruption of VC through crowd funding. If you have some time I highly recommend watching it. Venture Capital.

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