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

Both Sides of the Table

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. With a little patience, forethought, and strategy, you can avoid angel burnout. Here are just a few suggestions: 1) Advise first, invest later. 3) Start with funds. 5) Focus.

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What next for founders seeking their next adventure: Launch, Get a Job, Invest, Consult?

David Teten VC

Angel Investing, Venture Capital, and Mentoring. At Versatile VC , our new VC fund, we’re creating an online community just for founders who are in transition, Founders’ Next Move. Talk with VCs in your space. Many VCs keep a list of ideas they think have high potential. Work as a VC Scout.

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

Both Sides of the Table

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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A Few Key People Really Can Make a Huge Difference

Both Sides of the Table

I was meeting with a first-time CEO of a very promising young startup recently and offering my advice on what his priorities should be. I gave him the same advice I give nearly all over-worked, control-freak, do-everything-yourself startup founders: “Your number one priority isn’t any of these things. Me: “Bullshit.

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How Ecosystem-Led Growth Unlocks the Next Generation of GTM

Andreessen Horowitz

If you had adopted that, this was a logical next step that you could apply, which again, was like a playbook that you could run over top of a new technological disruption that had happened. That was very, very disruptive from a value prop standpoint, but actually more importantly, it was disruptive from a go-to-market standpoint.

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