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How to Kick Start Your Community’s Startup Scene

Both Sides of the Table

Cincinnati, like many startup communities in the US over the past 5 years, has revitalized important regions in its urban core, created accelerators, built co-working facilities, pooled together angel capital, attracted VCs, involved educational institutions and solicited the help of important corporations in a more cohesive ecosystem.

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Five common misconceptions about building a startup in New York City

This is going to be BIG.

It’s often some combination of the idea not being big enough to sustain a venture exit or the company just not being appropriate for venture financing. My company was not well executed enough to achieve venture capital financing—and that wasn’t the city’s fault, it was mine. I was there, too.

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Microcredentials for the effective VC or private equity investor

David Teten VC

Let’s Talk Ops , Venture Capital Operations Association – fund operations professionals. National Venture Capital Association. New York Venture Capital Association. New York Private Equity Network. Revenue Based Financing Network Group. Draper Venture Network. Modeling for Venture Capital.

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5 Types of Investors for Startups

StartupNation

Angel investors are individuals with an earned income that exceeds $200,000 or who have a net worth of more than $1 million. They are found across all industries and are useful for entrepreneurs who are beyond the seed stages of financing but are not yet ready to seek out venture capital. Look at your networks.

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Current State of Angels and Boards of Directors

Angel Capital Association

As the experience of one leading angel group powerfully illustrates , the difference in returns for portfolio companies having a Central Texas Angel Network (CTAN) member on the Board was 7x higher than lacking a CTAN Board member. The median number of Director seats held by angel groups for their 2022 investments was 4.5,

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Regulators appear to be growing increasingly wary of banks and fintech startups getting too cozy

TechCrunch

I did reach out to Wealthfront for comment and a spokesperson told me: “We unfortunately can’t discuss more than what’s been shared publicly in our blog or by UBS via their press release.”. The company is mostly bootstrapped, having raised about $2 million from family offices, angels, Capital Factory and its own management team.

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Standing Room Only: Why RFC is So Hot Right Now Part II

Angel Capital Association

This is Part II of a two-part series on Revenue-Financed Capital (RFC) for angels. In Part I addressed the question of when RFC might be appropriate to meet some of the capital needs of angel portfolio companies. This post discusses why RFC may be appropriate for angel portfolios.