TechCrunch

MAY 10, 2021

Kara Penn is the mother of four daughters and owner of Mission Spark, a management and strategy consulting company. And now, thanks to Hustle Fund, she is also an angel investor. Hustle Fund is coming out of stealth today with Angel Squad , a new initiative aimed at making angel investing more accessible to more people.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

JANUARY 5, 2024

Million in Startup Funding Tal Moore (EO Los Angeles) is a serial entrepreneur and founder of Popsmith. Tal shared what he learned from his first-ever round of raising startup capital. Having people from your network bet on you with an angel investment is like motivational rocket fuel.” Insights Learned From Raising $1.5

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 30, 2021

That’s why the unicorns and megadeals should come as no surprise: They’re the natural evolution of the ecosystem, of more capital generating more success after years of hard work. VCs have more money than ever, and it’s getting increasingly expensive to invest in North America. Every top university in Brazil has a pool of angels.

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Gust

OCTOBER 17, 2012

I began studying angel investing returns about 10 years ago as a result of a problem I couldn’t resolve: The investing world seemed certain that angel investors were rubes. Conventional wisdom dictated that they made reckless investments in very early-stage ventures mostly doomed to fail. So which is it?

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David Teten VC

JUNE 14, 2021

If you want outside capital, VCs will chase after you to invest. . At my prior firm, ff Venture Capital, we invested in a company co-founded by Nate Jenkins , who had a successful exit, but not quite enough to buy a private plane. Angel Investing, Venture Capital, and Mentoring. Full-time Initiatives.

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Berkonomics

MAY 15, 2014

Just a few of these terms include vesting, corporate structure, governance principles, financing strategy, valuation and exit strategy. Each one of these terms includes aspects of fairness, ethics, law, business, entrepreneurship, psychology and investing. Email readers, continue here.]

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Angel Capital Association

SEPTEMBER 4, 2020

Editor’s Note – This story originally appeared in the Idaho Business Review by Sharon Fisher and reposted with permission by the Angel Capital Association. To many Idaho companies, Kevin Learned isn’t just an icon, he’s ang angel. in entrepreneurship at Texas Tech. But that’s only what he’s done most recently.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 20, 2020

Index Ventures, a London- and San Francisco-headquartered venture capital firm that primarily invests in Europe and the U.S., Gonzalez-Cadenas is a seasoned entrepreneur and operator, but has also become a prolific angel investor in the U.K. and Europe over the last three years, making more than 50 angel investments in total.

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Angel Capital Association

MAY 21, 2020

I am very pleased to have the opportunity to represent the Angel Capital Association and the voice of all early stage investors as part of the vital work of the Investor Advisory Committee. Christopher has been a columnist on entrepreneurship for Inc. Launchpad is top-three ranked group in the U.S.

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Gust

DECEMBER 23, 2011

A gigantic percentage of startup literature concerns how to raise capital. Strategically, the advantage outside capital provides is obvious: you can go faster. On the flip side, there are certain businesses in which raising capital is indeed critical. Or is it still possible to bootstrap and build a company organically?

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Gust

DECEMBER 6, 2011

An experienced software engineer, for example, can develop a new mobile app with his or her own resources and market the product on the web with very little capital. There are several important sources of capital for entrepreneurs starting their businesses, depending on the stage of development of the company. Super Angels.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 25, 2010

Rincon is part of the new breed of Seed Stage VCs and with the leadership of Jim Andelman has charted out the most authentic early-stage investment strategy in Southern California. John gave me the book after I spoke at his entrepreneurship class at UCSB. Nowhere is social proof more prevalent than in angel investing.

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NZ Entrepreneur

MARCH 12, 2019

Needless to say, if this is your only strategy or hope for funding your new business you’re probably not ready for entrepreneurship anyway! Work and Income (WINZ) grants. If you receive a benefit from Work and Income Te Hiranga Tangata, you may qualify for some help to get into self employment with your own business.

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Gust

DECEMBER 28, 2011

In the “good old days,” angels invested in seed-stage startups and teed up promising companies for subsequent venture capital financing. If the company was successful, this quickly led to an IPO – a very happy ending for the entrepreneur, the angels, and the venture capitalists. My, my…how the world has changed.

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Gust

JULY 12, 2012

The goal was to share our experiences in the realm of angel investing with an array of global audiences, by participating in various lectures, discussions and workshops. In all four countries we met passionate entrepreneurs who were eager to discuss their exciting startups, as well as angel investors looking to support them.

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Gust

NOVEMBER 29, 2011

Since investing in startup companies is very risky, the only winning investor strategy is to pick well and invest in many companies. A portfolio of 25 investments in startup companies is considered prudent diversification, providing a reasonable chance of excellent portfolio yields.

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Gust

DECEMBER 21, 2011

Silicon Valley is a very special place – the nucleus of high-growth, high technology entrepreneurship in the US, indeed, in the world. The Valley produces world-class entrepreneurs, angel investors, venture capitalists and successful high-tech companies – all growing and creating jobs on one relatively small peninsula.

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Gust

JANUARY 4, 2012

Entrepreneurs: if you’re looking seriously at angel investment, and you have the kind of product-market fit and management experience investors will like, you need to take a good look at convertible notes. Do yourself and the investors you want to talk to a favor: take a few minutes and do some homework on this issue.

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Gust

SEPTEMBER 12, 2011

It’s the result of several decades in high tech, three years as an investor in a local Oregon angel investment group , some consulting in due diligence for venture capital, and my experience as founder and co-founder of successful ventures. What I say here is my opinion and mine alone. Startup experience.

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Gust

OCTOBER 17, 2011

It’s true that angel investors typically do not present entrepreneurs with overly complicated deal structures, especially when compared to venture capitalists. Your best strategy is to bring your own term sheet to the negotiation as a starting point. But the lead angel would certainly ask to be given a seat. Define equity type.

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Gust

DECEMBER 12, 2011

Define a focused strategy. If your strategy has more than ten elements, it’s not focused. The vision may be yours alone, but the communication has to include your team, potential investors, and customers. For most people the communication is the hard part – written, verbal, over and over again. Not everything can be a priority.

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Gust

DECEMBER 16, 2011

Your third-most important story, if you’re pitching to angel investors, is how you’re going to make them some money if they write you a check. Pitch tip: spend a few bucks and go get Nancy Duarte’s Resonate: Present Visual Stories that Transform Audiences and read what she says about telling stories to business audiences.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 30, 2021

These days, young companies are raising more capital than ever and facing increased pressure to maintain rapid growth, but founders are typically focused on technology and product problems. And then we do angel investing. It also provides a job board, a newsletter , and workshops for marketers. Setting goals is critical here.”

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Gust

DECEMBER 5, 2011

Too many entrepreneurs develop a new product without regard for market demand , then build an entire strategy based on creating a need, rather than acting on an existing market need. Investors characterize this approach as a “solution looking for a problem.” These don’t get funded.

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Gust

DECEMBER 19, 2011

Undercutting competitors in price is always a good strategy, but free implies no real value. Free is a good short-term Internet strategy, if you have $50 million to spend on viral marketing to get your page-views up to the million per month needed for significant advertising revenue.

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Gust

DECEMBER 27, 2011

I recognize that it has been tough to raise capital these last couple of years, but don’t be tempted to take money from any source. Entrepreneurs are optimists by nature, so I definitely recommend the involvement of your favorite attorney (usually the pessimist).

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Gust

DECEMBER 20, 2011

We now know that this ‘build it and they will come” is a prayer rather than a business strategy. In reality, a startup is a temporary organization designed to search for a repeatable and scalable business model.

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Gust

DECEMBER 16, 2011

Keep capital expenses and long term obligations to a minimum. Iterate as rapidly as possible, and worry less about the organizational build out required for a permanent stand-alone company. Focus maniacally on customer experience.

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This is going to be BIG.

DECEMBER 3, 2012

Apparently, venture capital is a cruddy asset class where you can't get returns over the long term. That might make sense, if venture capital was an asset class. Saying that venture capital is an asset class is like saying that Italians are a race. Venture capital works largely the same way. It's a lot more skill based.

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Gust

JANUARY 5, 2012

But, this SEC limit has created some problems for these high-tech phenoms, both in raising additional capital and in private sales through secondary markets in which early investors resell shares to a large number of smaller US buyers. But, the SEC limit on the number of shareholders is not the only issue entrepreneurs should consider.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 22, 2022

As for Barrica, she now sits on both sides of the table – in addition to being an entrepreneur, she is angel investing and raising a fund. Our conversations indicated that things are opening up: There are more funding sources to leverage, and convincing investors is easier than it used to be.

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