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Microcredentials for the effective VC or private equity investor

David Teten VC

Historically VC has been an apprenticeship business. VC ASSOCIATIONS. Let’s Talk Ops , Venture Capital Operations Association – fund operations professionals. Revenue Based Financing Network Group. VCs who care. ACCELERATORS FOR EMERGING VCs. Modeling for Venture Capital. Confluence.

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6 Tips for Entrepreneurs to Successfully Pitch to Women Angel Investors

StartupNation

Only 11% of VC partners are women , and as a whole, women angel investors have only reached 22%. On the entrepreneur side, things look better, with over 40% being women. According to the Angel Capital Association (ACA), there has been a big increase in women who are members just in the last few years.

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Alternative VC Tech Stack: Chisos structured finance

David Teten VC

We’re fortunate to interview William Stringer, Founder of Chisos Capital , a structured finance company. Chisos is a structured finance company that provides startup and brand capital to entrepreneurs, athletes and creatives. Q: What is CISA and how does it compare to other alternative VC models?

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Venture Capital and the Art of the Deal: More of the Same

Angel Capital Association

Roughly 40% of the data fields included in the Aumni survey relate to the frequency with which certain deal terms are found in financing transactions. Most deal terms are present in 80-90%+ of financings. Minimal Variation by Round – The lack of variability by financing round is striking. Covid, What Covid?

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Startup Capital: Feast or Famine?

Gust

New Company Formation – According to the Kauffman Foundation, entrepreneurs start about 700,000 companies per year in the US. We have no measure of the changes in available capital resources from entrepreneurs and their friends and family, but we have no reason to believe they have changed radically over the past few years.

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ACA Shares Angel Perspective as the SEC Proposes Ways to Increase Capital for Founders and Investors

Angel Capital Association

By: Pat Gouhin, Chief Executive Officer The Angel Capital Association and the broader angel investor community were represented during the recent committee meeting with the Securities and Exchange Commission to discuss vital issues that impact capital funding. Gender has a major effect on access to start-up capital.

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Five common misconceptions about building a startup in New York City

This is going to be BIG.

What gets frustrating is that I tend to hear the same arguments over and over again from new entrepreneurs, and many of them are just completely unfunded. Unfortunately, they tend to resonate really well with frustrated entrepreneurs and a lot of dust gets kicked up over them. If only VCs were smart, they’d fund me.”

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