David Teten VC

MAY 19, 2017

That said, I’ve identified quite a few microcredentials, conferences, and other learning opportunities which will help train you to be a better investor. Spearhead – $1m to back your angel investing. BOARD TRAINING. Executive Leadership Council – focus on African-Americans. Angel Resource Institute Programs.

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 19, 2009

And I’ll bet that the leadership he displayed helped his angel decide he had the character worth backing. Inspiration/ Leadership – As an entrepreneur you’re always under-resourced. I think this is going to be hugely successful and I don’t want to miss the opportunity.’&#. That’s true.

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Hunter Walk

AUGUST 26, 2022

And then take your experience and turn it into a piece of thought leadership career advice to share with people reading this. Every milestone was an opportunity to tell the biggest possible story. I thought maybe Glossier would be another opportunity for that type of story — either in beauty specifically, or e-commerce more broadly.

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WSJ - The Accelerators

JUNE 26, 2015

No surprises in the board room. Founders seeking liquidity in a venture round need to canvas the investors in advance of the board meeting to get a feel for how amenable they’ll be towards founder liquidity. Good governance also means founders need to let the board hash it out a bit without the founder present. Rich vs. liquid.

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Angel Capital Association

OCTOBER 26, 2023

Probably harder than we realize, because we somewhat regularly find ourselves in angel investing situations where our founding team has run out of talent relative to the job at hand. Launchpad strongly prefers to lead its rounds, and typically does, and we virtually always take a board or observer seat. But at what cost?

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Andreessen Horowitz

APRIL 9, 2024

But the wins that actually happen, they happen due to the work of sales leadership and sales people. That starts with sales leadership and sales management. It was in that moment that I finally had an opportunity to pop my head up and look around, and do some pattern recognition on the last decade. We decided to go for it.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 15, 2022

They believed in the team, vision, mission and the opportunity of building streamlined cross-border commerce solutions for African consumers. The market opportunity was there; e-commerce is less than 10 years old in Africa, with a 3% penetration rate and a 27% personal consumption rate in Africa, the second-highest after Asia.

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Angel Capital Association

OCTOBER 17, 2023

ACA has continued its efforts to push legislation to help the entire Angel community. Through ACA’s strong and experienced public policy leadership team, ACA has been able to gain more diverse voices as both investors and entrepreneurs. ACA continues to foster good lines of communication with the SEC and good relationships at the SBA.

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