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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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Preparing to Start a Company

This is going to be BIG.

If you’re going that route—here are a couple of things I would suggest: Have at least six months of personal expenses in the bank —and that’s only if you know you can at least get some angel capital based around your connections to investors, friends, family, etc. Be deliberate in terms of what you want to get out of investors.

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Angel Capital Association’s Annual Summit is a Goldmine for Black Investors, Founders, and High Growth Startups Raising Capital

Angel Capital Association

The Angel Capital Association (ACA) Summit represents a beacon for black investors, founders, and high-growth startups. The summit offers an unparalleled opportunity for learning, networking, and investment discovery, specifically tailored to empower the black entrepreneurial ecosystem.

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Five common misconceptions about building a startup in New York City

This is going to be BIG.

People told me that it was unfair or too easy for me to raise angel capital because I was already tapped into a network of investors. Even after we got funded, it took us three months to hire our first two developers at our prior companies—and I consider us pretty visible and well-networked.

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What happens when you take 12 investors to Silicon Valley?

Startup Catalyst

The third day started with a session from DLA Piper on legals in the US, followed by a meeting with VC firm Accel, then a private chat with famous angel investors Jason Calacanis and Jay Adelson, before a combined networking event with the River City Labs Accelerator and muru-d Melbourne teams who were in town on their own mission.

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8 investors and founders highlight Valencia’s potential as a fintech and cybersecurity hub

TechCrunch

So to find out what the startup scene in Valencia looks like, we spoke with eight local investors, executives and founders. BIGBAN is a private nonprofit angel investor network based in Valencia, and incubators and accelerator programs continue to proliferate, supported by corporates and local government initiatives such as Startup Valencia.

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Alicia Robb Magnified the Movement to Drive Impact, Diversity, and Inclusion in Early-Stage Investing

Angel Capital Association

By: Sarah Dickey, ACA Membership Director Groundbreaking economist, author, investor, and entrepreneur is honored with the Angel Capital Association’s Hans Severiens Award While performing the research that culminated in her book, The Next Wave: Financing and Investing Strategies for Growth-Oriented Women Entrepreneurs , Alicia Robb, Ph.D.,