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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.

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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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. VentureForward (NVCA), includes list of all VC organizations focused on diversity. Modeling for Venture Capital. Reboot VC Bootcamp.

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Angel Capital Association Awards Prestigious Hans Severiens Award to Sage Growth Capital’s Dr. Kevin Learned

Angel Capital Association

The Hans Severiens Award recognizes personal impact on the advancement of angel investing globally and highlights the special relationship that angels and entrepreneurs build to innovate, create jobs, and drive the economy. Over a lifetime of work, Learned has been an entrepreneur, Angel investor, academic and accountant.

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What happens when you take 12 investors to Silicon Valley?

Startup Catalyst

In November 2017 we delivered our first Investor Mission, heading to San Francisco for an intensive week meeting with angels, VCs, corporate venture programs, accelerators, startups, pitch events, and dinners. The mission was led by Steve Baxter, an investor on Shark Tank and the current Queensland Chief Entrepreneur.

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What is a good site or Gmail extension for an angel investor to manage their startup deals?

Gust

What Gust does is to greatly simplify the whole investment process, ensuring that investors have all the information they need to make smart decisions, and providing an integrated suite of powerful tools for collaboration, syndication, communication and diligence connecting entrepreneurs and investors.

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"Money is Local, Impact is Global" for Angel Investing

Onevest

By Michael "Luni" Libes In the traditional world of early stage, Angel and VC investing, money is local. Studies show that over 80% of funding at Angel groups and Series A VCs goes to businesses in the same city/region as the funders. Luni is a 20+ year serial entrepreneur, (co)founder of six companies.