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Celebrating 2021 Accomplishments and Looking Ahead to New Opportunities

Angel Capital Association

The Angel Capital Association is moving into a confident, secure future, because of the successes we’ve had and the way we’ve navigated the last two years. ACA’s angel groups made more investments in more companies despite the pandemic –continuing to risk personal capital to jumpstart businesses and ignite economies.

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At Last – An Asset Class Achieving High Ownership at Low Cost

Angel Capital Association

With great innovation comes big change, or even better, disruption, to systems that have been in place for years. Studios are causing this precise disruption to the traditional ways of building companies and how to invest in them. This unprecedented growth provides a wealth of new opportunity for the investment community.

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A Future Worth Creating: Fiscal Year Recap and Vision for Tomorrow

Angel Capital Association

The future of our economies and our communities is at stake. We are grappling with healthcare challenges, irreversibly disrupted industries, millions of underemployed workers, and devastating racial and gender inequities. We need angels. The best way to predict the future is to create it,” as Abraham Lincoln once said.

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Early stage CEOs: time to pull back or push ahead?

Angel Capital Association

By: Pat LaPointe, Frontier Angels After my last post , quite a few people asked if I was suggesting that ALL early stage companies should be pulling back in this uncertain time. The problem is that 90% of entrepreneurs think they’re in the other 10% who should push aggressively forward. Just ~90% of them.

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Why I Angel Invest

Angel Capital Association

By: Daren Cotter, Tech Entrepreneur & Investor, Member of Gopher Angels I’ve been asked this question many times over the past 8 years. I’m sharing my thought process because perhaps it will nudge some of you to angel invest too! I’m active in the MN tech and start-up community as a mentor, advisor, and angel investor.

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A university’s role in an emerging startup community and other conversations

Startup Catalyst

Graham Fellows went on the Startup Community Leaders Mission which featured Boulder, Denver, and San Francisco. He took pictures of every community space he went into. Graham (in the Code Network shirt) and the Community Leaders 2018 mission crew visit 500 Startups. We’re talking about a new Foundry* space here at QUT.

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Angels Confront the Apocalypse: How Angels Reacted to the Great Market Inversion of 2022

Angel Capital Association

With war, inflation, supply chain disruption, epidemics and the end of nearly free capital, the twelve-year party ended in 2022. Did we flee to safer deals and entrepreneurs with successful track records? Data from the recently published 2023 Angel Capital Association Angel Funders Report can provide answers to these questions.

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