Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 3, 2013

He talked about how for centuries education had “no technological core” (meaning it was bound by physical locations) and thus disruption was very difficult. Internationalization of Technology. We spoke about what succeeds early in technology market evolutions. If you have some time I highly recommend watching it.

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This is going to be BIG.

MAY 5, 2011

Businessguy Bob On the other hand, having a 35 year veteran of the management consultant consulting industry doesn't mean automatic business success when your industry is being highly disrupted by technology this person doesn't even use. So, as good a recommendation as I can give, it's hard to talk around the fact that we're not in.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 28, 2021

The Denominator Effect I want to share with you some of the most consistent pieces of advice I give to new VCs in their career journey and the same advice holds for angel investors. So is angel investing. So my advice boils down to these simple points: Make sure you see tons of deals.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

OCTOBER 27, 2023

We both went on to have successful careers as consultants and entrepreneurs, and had a passion for working with and investing in younger entrepreneurs. We reconnected in 2016 and began angel investing in startups in New York City.  But, even then, we knew that many things could go wrong and that our investments were risky.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 5, 2011

It really wouldn’t take much to turn a great technology ecosystem into a truly electric one. 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. Perhaps somebody needs to organize it a bit better to go into more angel deals.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 17, 2012

An innovator in technology, especially monetization. ” To me, LA will always be a creative hub for TV, film, music, video games and now technology. But “Beach” emphasizes the worst perception that people have about Los Angeles. We need to be different & unique. Not derivative. ” I love the beach.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 15, 2010

We spoke about the changes to an “accredited investor&# proposed by Chris Dodd – This would be bad for angel investing. Arnie Gullov-Singh (ex-EVP of product, technology and operations for MySpace) also joined as CEO, as Sean Rad will assume the role of President. Tags: Start-up Advice. Short answer: no.

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StartupNation

SEPTEMBER 3, 2021

Marcia Dawood: One of the things that angels bring is a lot of mentorship and expertise, and they bring their network. They need advice. And the best way to do that is to get angels involved who have more of a, uh, a broader network that they can access. So in a lot of cases, these early companies, they need customers.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

JANUARY 5, 2024

My advice to all entrepreneurs: Don’t shy away from hard conversations. But it’s critical to strike the right balance between leveraging technology and relying on human ingenuity to make sound decisions,” she says. Having people from your network bet on you with an angel investment is like motivational rocket fuel.”

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Gust

NOVEMBER 18, 2012

The founders now need a $1M Angel investment to do the marketing for a national NewCo rollout, build a team to manage the rollout, and maybe even pay themselves a salary. Assign value to all paid professionals, as their skills, training, and knowledge of your business technology is very valuable.

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NZ Entrepreneur

MARCH 12, 2019

The New Zealand Government wishes to stimulate the creation of more high growth businesses and build on our intellectual property (“IP”) in science and technology related businesses. Research and development. If your startup is accepted into one of these programmes you will effectively be benefiting from Government funding.

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Gust

JULY 23, 2014

So, putting all that together, to get a pitch meeting with me, an entrepreneur would probably have the best result with the following strategy: Read up on the kinds of investments I make, and the kinds of opportunities I am seeking. But the good thing is that this is where you can call in some reinforcements.

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Gust

JUNE 19, 2012

Investment and startups problem : we all want disruptive and game-changing businesses. We think it’s a matter of products, but history shows us it takes more than just products and technology to create the sweeping changes. It seems like good advice to me. Invested Interests. On this issue I can’t give.”

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propel(x)

NOVEMBER 27, 2017

There are several reasons angel investors may consider adding deep technology to their investment portfolio. In an effort to better inform your investment decision making, we’ve compiled a list of resources you can use before you commit. Be sure to check out their guide to different approaches to angel investing.

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AsiaTechDaily

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

Delve into his story as it unfolds with lessons from filmmaking, startup ventures, and the fascinating world of technology innovations and investing. This gave me a front-row seat to the world of tech/innovation, and I began making some personal angel investments along the way.”

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Angel Capital Association

JUNE 24, 2024

As a central component of this new partnership, Thompson Hine is providing meaningful educational opportunities to angel investors and angel group leaders to benefit the angel investment community. ACA is pleased to enhance our strong resource list of early stage legal advisors with a new partnership with Thompson Hine.

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Gust

DECEMBER 21, 2011

Silicon Valley is a very special place – the nucleus of high-growth, high technology entrepreneurship in the US, indeed, in the world. The Valley produces world-class entrepreneurs, angel investors, venture capitalists and successful high-tech companies – all growing and creating jobs on one relatively small peninsula.

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David Teten VC

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

For example, we’re investors (via prior funds) in alternative data, investment research, administrative tools, alternatives marketplaces, and marketing tech to help gather assets.We are an aggressive user of technology internally to manage the firm and make better investments.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

JANUARY 5, 2024

My advice to all entrepreneurs: Don’t shy away from hard conversations. But it’s critical to strike the right balance between leveraging technology and relying on human ingenuity to make sound decisions,” she says. Having people from your network bet on you with an angel investment is like motivational rocket fuel.”

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StartupNation

AUGUST 11, 2021

And then secondly, every angel investor I know really is looking to participate to help out entrepreneurs and be engaged and help them grow a business. You want to introduce them to people, grow their social and investing circles. This segment brought to you by Dell Technologies. This segment brought to you by Dell Technologies.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 21, 2022

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.”. The berserk pace of fintech investing outshines the global VC boom. Financial technology concept.

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Jason Malki

AUGUST 1, 2023

How did you break into tech investing? After exiting Hyperpilot to Cloudera, like many other exited founders I started to angel invest into other founders I already know or met during my own founder journey. What major trends do you expect to see in technology innovation over the next 5 years that excites you?

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 8, 2020

“We did hear that and I think it’s very poor advice,” he says. However, what is made less explicit is that there was likely very little technology involved. But it wasn’t really that technology driven,” he concedes. companies should relocate to Silicon Valley if they really want to grow.

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Angel Capital Association

SEPTEMBER 4, 2020

Editor’s Note – This story originally appeared in the Idaho Business Review by Sharon Fisher and reposted with permission by the Angel Capital Association. To many Idaho companies, Kevin Learned isn’t just an icon, he’s ang angel. That includes teaching course sin entrepreneurship at Angel University.

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Venture Hacks

APRIL 17, 2019

Spearhead asked me to write a post on angel investing when they first launched. Charlie Munger says investing requires a latticework of mental models. Here are 11 lessons for your angel investing lattice: If you can’t decide, the answer is no. Invest only in technology. Invest only in technology.

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Angel Capital Association

OCTOBER 17, 2023

This committee provides advice and recommendations to the Commissions on rules, regulations and policy matters relating to small businesses. ACA is working with Congressman Timmons and Congresswoman Ann Wagner to ensure angel investors understand and utilize this bill. It will help develop a better, more diverse economy.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 8, 2020

“We did hear that and I think it’s very poor advice,” he says. However, what is made less explicit is that there was likely very little technology involved. But it wasn’t really that technology driven,” he concedes. companies should relocate to Silicon Valley if they really want to grow.

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Angel Capital Association

JULY 23, 2020

By: Lance Cottrell, North Bay Angels Editors Note - The following article shares points from one investor to founders. Or, do you have additional advice for founders who pitch to your group? Once you decide that you need investment to grow your company, your task as a founder is to convince investors to give it to you.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 11, 2009

This is part of my ongoing series Startup Advice. My main advice to you if you’re considering it is don’t waste much equity on it. At a minimum their angel investments will likely take precedence. Tags: Start-up Advice startup technology vc venture capital. It’s very tempting.

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Andreessen Horowitz

APRIL 9, 2024

And it’s been made possible by solutions like Crossbeam, but also at large, just the modern data stack hitting at the same time as the maturity of the API economy has just created a technological re-platforming of how companies think about sharing data across company lines. And that is absolutely transformational and huge.

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David Teten VC

JUNE 14, 2021

Angel Investing, Venture Capital, and Mentoring. For example, Jason Calacanis shares in his book Angel the compensation structure for Sequoia’s Scout program: 45% of returns are given to the Scout, 50% to Sequoia, and the remaining 5% to a bonus pool for other Scouts in the program. See Angel Investing 101.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 18, 2021

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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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 10, 2011

The interesting thing about working with angels (the tech founder kind) is that they’ve all run their own startups before so there is instant resonance with what you’re going through, the issues you’ll face and how to best help. As an angel, do you reserve money for follow-on investments? what is your ratio? (0:37:35).

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