TechCrunch

JULY 6, 2021

Influential entrepreneurs like Paul Graham and Naval Ravikant always preach the need for startups to have founders-turned-investors on their cap table. Olubusi, who had built and exited a couple of startups over the years, also dabbled with angel investing for some time.

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This is going to be BIG.

APRIL 1, 2013

VCs, I believe that the purpose of venture investment is to serve entrepreneurs. Many of us, however, seem to regard investing as some kind of dodge or hustle. That is why some entrepreneurs have turned towards an alternative to getting investment from us. Many of us, fellow VCs, are a poor investors.

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StartupNation

OCTOBER 5, 2021

Accelerators are highly competitive programs designed to help entrepreneurs succeed. Obtain funding from an angel investor. Angel investors are wealthy individuals looking to put seed money into a venture. In exchange for providing you with funding, angel investors take an equity position in your company. Angelpad.org.

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Gust

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. With #1 – #3 under your belt, you should start preparing the components you will use to support your pitch to outside investors. Understand your business.

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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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Entrepreneur's Handbook

AUGUST 3, 2022

Prepare a pitch & deck Pitch When I gave my first pitch, I made some mistakes, but after a few intros, I changed it to improve it. Before investor even decides to show some interest in your product, they’ll see your pitch. Prepare a deck Once you get the investor interested, you need to be ready with your pitch deck.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 21, 2022

Dear Sophie, I’m an entrepreneur in Guatemala and would like to come to the United States to expand my tech company. The berserk pace of fintech investing outshines the global VC boom. From Buy Now, Pay Later to open banking and social finance, fintech has scaled rapidly since the pandemic began. What is the best way to do that?

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Gust

SEPTEMBER 27, 2014

To begin with, it is important to understand some basic facts about the world of entrepreneurial finance: There are many more entrepreneurs than there are investors, with the result that only one company out of every 400 that seeks venture funding actually receives it.

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Gust

NOVEMBER 29, 2011

I saw a great answer to that question in Pitching a VC: Why Financials Matter , posted earlier this month by David Hornik on his Ventureblog. Here’s what he says: It is well understood by entrepreneurs and VCs alike that the specific numbers an entrepreneur pitches when describing her early stage business are completely made up.

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TechCrunch

MAY 11, 2022

That’s the opportunity a new fintech startup called Luxus , co-founded by two women with experience in both finance and luxury fashion, is hoping to bring to investors. million in pre-seed funding to prepare for its launch from investors including fashion entrepreneur Veronica M. The company has raised $2.5

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Gust

JUNE 19, 2012

Thoughts on startups by investors that fund them & entrepreneurs that run them. Invested Interests. Power Pitches. If you’re doing investment pitches, you should read this book. If you’re doing a pitch I’m going to see, I want you to have read this book. Invested Interests.

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Both Sides of the Table

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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Don Dodge

APRIL 6, 2015

Angel investing in tech startups is a gut wrenching and risky business. Most of them lose, but sometimes you invest in a “unicorn” and make 100 times your money or even more. Two years earlier I saw another Boston based startup called Carbonite pitch a similar cloud backup solution to investors.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 1, 2022

It started out as a vehicle for joint angel investing for the two general partners, who later brought in Reider to lead the investment team. Our model is that a founder has a high degree of flexibility similar to what you’d expect from an angel. The firm has quietly backed over 40 companies in the U.S.,

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 15, 2022

Among many of the entrepreneur catchphrases out there, the one that annoys me the most is: “It’s not what you know, it’s who you know.” The SaaS-friendly fintech platform emerged from stealth this week with $150 million in debt financing and $11 million in seed funding with a Stripe partnership. Image Credits: Bryce Durbin/TechCrunch.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 11, 2022

The pitches range from building the Square for micro-merchants in Latin America to creating a way to angel invest in your favorite athlete.” Can’t we all just get along? You can read more on that here. Recipients included the following fintech startups: CashEx, a currency exchange platform that leverages AI to help U.S.-based

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 8, 2020

Pitch perfect, you might think. Angel investment from a former Erlang Systems sales manager, Jane Walerud, followed and she put Klarna’s founders in contact with a team of developers who helped build the first version of the platform. Siemiatkowski left undeterred.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 8, 2020

Pitch perfect, you might think. Angel investment from a former Erlang Systems sales manager, Jane Walerud, followed and she put Klarna’s founders in contact with a team of developers who helped build the first version of the platform. Siemiatkowski left undeterred.

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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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