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Angel Investing: Skill 3 – Relationships with VCs

Both Sides of the Table

In these scenarios angels made great returns precisely because they didn’t need to dip their hands into their pockets a second or third time, their companies didn’t go bankrupt and they didn’t get buried in the cap tables by large VCs who put in “pay to play” provisions in tough times. 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 if 2011 & 2012 look more like 2008-2009 than 2010 or 2005-2007 then one of the most important skills of angel investors will be whether they can get their companies financed (or ramen profitable, but this is harder to sustain over a long period of time). Tags: Startup Advice Tech Market Analysis VC Industry.

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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.” According to him, a valuable company, sustained by growth and impact, naturally becomes an attractive acquisition or public offering candidate.

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WJR Business Beat with Jeff Sloan: Angel Funding In Our Local Startup Ecosystem (Episode 273)

StartupNation

You want to introduce them to people, grow their social and investing circles. I got into angel investing several years ago, as I had retired, I had wanted to certainly diversify my investments. You want to introduce them to people, grow their social and investing circles.

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

TechCrunch

That may seem strange advice for a new startup, but the economy is volatile and things change very fast. I started angel investing and it gave me exposure to a fantastic and wide variety of founders and innovative ideas. On the other side, what are startups doing better now than ever before?

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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.

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Remojo is building tools to combat digital addiction, starting with porn

TechCrunch

million (~$2.1M) in pre-seed funding from a number of business angels, including Jens Lapinski (former TechStars Berlin MD and CEO of Angel Invest) and Jag Singh (also of TechStars Berlin and Angel Invest), along with a number of other angels in the banking/finance space, plus some (unnamed) founders chipping in.

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