TechCrunch

JANUARY 21, 2022

Changes to corporate investing rules could diminish China’s resilient venture landscape. 5 essential factors for attracting angel investment. In a guest post by Marjorie Radlo-Zandi, the veteran angel investor shared five key elements she considers before investing.

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SEPTEMBER 27, 2014

Take the time to read, cover to cover, The Definitive Guide to Raising Money from Angels , by the legendary Bill Payne. A wonderful resource for startups in fundraising mode that most people don’t know about is the Frank Peters Show , the only weekly podcast that is all about (and only about) the world of angel investing.

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JANUARY 16, 2013

Everyone could toss in 100k and you could definitely find 1:1 matching from various instructions to bring it up to $10mm. And when guys start pitching to women for capital, that's when you really get behavior change. The problem is that so few women pitch. Let's bring in both Clinton women, too, while we're at it.

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SEPTEMBER 12, 2011

Since this is my inaugural post here, I decided it would fit the occasion to list the five things I value most in an startup investment proposal. Having been involved in a failed startup definitely doesn’t rule anybody out in my mind as long as they can talk to me about what went wrong and what might have been better.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 15, 2022

I was cognizant that women only received less than 1% of venture funding globally, but that wasn’t at the forefront of my mind as I started my journey or as I pitched to VCs or angels. That’s why women founders are encouraged to transition into angel or VC investing to increase the number of women-led startups that get investments.

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AUGUST 14, 2009

This is part of my ongoing series Pitching a VC. I recently wrote a post on angel financing covering the topic of convertible notes but I realized I was thinking about the issue more from investor perspective and a very narrow topic of how to price the round. This post is for those who want to raise angel money.

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NOVEMBER 28, 2011

Being relentlessly resourceful is definitely not what you learn in big companies, or in most schools. Relentlessly resourceful. Not merely relentless and passionate about your journey, but able to overcome novel difficulties (per Paul Graham ). The buck stops here. ” The CEO has to be confident and clearly the final decision maker.

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DECEMBER 27, 2012

It sounds obvious, but the majority of entrepreneurs who pitch me have obviously never thought through many of the major issues surrounding their companies. There are many good books on this subject, and you owe it to yourself to read at least one of them before you begin talking to angels. Understand your business.

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MARCH 25, 2013

The definitive article about 33 Flatbush--the kind of commercial building you would drive by a million times without thinking twice-- was written in the NY Times a few years ago. It's the kind of place you just don't find in Manhattan, and definitely don't find in Silicon Valley. 33 Flatbush. 10 Jay Street.

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Hunter Walk

AUGUST 23, 2023

Seriously though, were there things you saw as a founder – or an angel investor in other people’s companies – that informed your own approach to venture now? Michael Mignano: Throughout my time building Anchor, I met and pitched many, many VCs. And that was definitely who I was during the Anchor days.

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