Angel Capital Association

AUGUST 28, 2023

This is Part II of a two-part series on Revenue-Financed Capital (RFC) for angels. In Part I addressed the question of when RFC might be appropriate to meet some of the capital needs of angel portfolio companies. This post discusses why RFC may be appropriate for angel portfolios.

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AsiaTechDaily

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

This gave me a front-row seat to the world of tech/innovation, and I began making some personal angel investments along the way.” ” Exit Strategies and Long-Term Planning: Building Value as the Core Focus While exit strategies are crucial, Jeshua advises founders to prioritize building intrinsic value.

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Angel Capital Association

JANUARY 26, 2023

Investments made by individual angels and angel groups continued to “fuel the tank” for entrepreneurs and kept investment pipelines flowing for venture capitalists. Fostering these entrepreneurs and the economies they impact is a direct result of ACA’s mission to fuel the success of the angel investor community.

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American Entrepreneurship

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

According to estimates from PitchBook, venture capital and angel investment activity has declined since 2021, with a 40 percent reduction in the amount of companies receiving investment and a 50 percent decrease in investment funding.

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TechCrunch

JULY 6, 2021

Olubusi, who had built and exited a couple of startups over the years, also dabbled with angel investing for some time. It was there he met more founders like him who were angel investors with impressive portfolios. million and Olubusi says the investments performed 5x over the period of three years.

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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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Onevest

APRIL 30, 2015

This is something that we have experience at 1000 Angels , the private investor network that connects startups with investors. Trending Investment Strategies Global investor surveys have shown that since the crises of the early 2000s more affluent and sophisticated investors are choosing to invest in partnership with each other.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 21, 2022

I’ve worked at early-stage startups where we relied on our best guesses to shape product pipelines and develop marketing strategies. In this seven-step guide, you’ll find strategies and tactics for identifying key members and influencers, streamlining the communication process, and creating “a little FOMO.”

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Berkonomics

MARCH 29, 2018

It was thrilling for these angels to find a young entrepreneur with an idea for a business that seemed so destined for greatness that the angels invested over $1 million on the condition that the group receive two board seats and one observer seat on the start-up’s board. Some of you can guess that name of the group.

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David Teten VC

OCTOBER 7, 2021

DC Finance is one of the oldest and largest family office networks. Greg Weyerhaeuser Piasecki will interview David Teten , Founder of Versatile Venture Capital , about his firm’s unique strategy. I hope you’ll join us! . RSVP (Accredited Investors only). For confidentiality, this event will NOT be recorded for public viewing.

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This is going to be BIG.

APRIL 1, 2013

At the same time, the good deals that hit the traditional markets will also be overfunded--because VCs will fear companies getting financed by other means. Plus, I've heard, and can anecdotally corroborate, that most angel investors put 70% of all the money they will ever put into startups to work in their very first year of angel investing.

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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. I’d suggest you start with Fred Wilson’s Financing Options: Convertible Debt , one of his MBA Mondays series on his AVC blog.

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TechCrunch

JULY 20, 2021

How do you think those qualities contribute to your success in working with startups and forming strategies? Marketing strategies that help find product-market fit are very different from acquiring your first 100 customers, which is very different from scaling your customer acquisition or lead generation. What value do they add?

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 29, 2010

We also discussed how to deal with pricing in angel rounds and a strategy I advocated in my “social proof&# blog post , which is to price your initial angel round really low and get in the best possible angels as a way to get momentum in the company. And I talked a lot about persistence in the video.

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David Teten VC

MARCH 1, 2022

Versatile VC runs a no-cost community for founders in transition, “ Founders Next Move “ We have collected a wide range of resources for founders who may be considering launching a new company ; angel investing/becoming a VC ; buying a company ; joining boards ; consulting ; serving as an interim executive , or just getting a job.

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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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StartupNation

APRIL 23, 2021

There are several different ways a startup founder might fund his or her business, including series funding, crowdfunding, loans, venture capital and angel investments. As an entrepreneur, investment advisor and consultant to startup founders, I understand that each startup is different. Bootstrapping is another option.

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Gust

OCTOBER 17, 2011

Your best strategy is to bring your own term sheet to the negotiation as a starting point. As the company grows and the second or third group of investors comes in, the terms of each subsequent financing grow in size, scope, and the number of lawyers’ fingerprints on them. Anti-dilution protection.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 15, 2010

I asked some of the participating VCs, and they told me their attorneys had figured out a way to keep their stealth-mode companies stealthy.Yes, this strategy is not for every company. We spoke about the changes to an “accredited investor&# proposed by Chris Dodd – This would be bad for angel investing. . -

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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. Kevin Learned is on his third career, and he’s not done yet. But that’s only what he’s done most recently.

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Gust

NOVEMBER 1, 2011

Are you wondering about angel investment ? You can stay in your new business forever, for that matter; but you need to help your angels make a return in 3-5 years. If you can’t answer yes to all three of these questions, you should be looking for a different way to finance your startup. How to find investors?

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Berkonomics

NOVEMBER 22, 2010

Let me tell you the story of the first investment made by a newly organized formal group of angel investors. The angel investors could not raise the next, larger round to finance the shortfall and further expansion, putting the fragile young company at risk for following the advice of its board.

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Angel Capital Association

FEBRUARY 10, 2023

As in previous bubble deflations, the malaise began with public market declines—a sharp Q1’22 fall in the S&P 500 -- and successively impacted unicorns and other pre-IPO companies, then late/growth stage and finally early-stage and seed-stage/angel investing. By Q4, for every dollar of available capital there were 1.4x

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TechCrunch

JUNE 30, 2021

To amplify what Kathleen was saying about the industry, I think a lot of times I work with tech companies and they’re like we need people that have done fintech or finance. And then we do angel investing. Kramer: Sometimes consumer stuff might be more similar to your business model. Setting goals is critical here.”

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Gust

JUNE 19, 2012

If you’re doing investment pitches, you should read this book. And if you’re a startup CFO, finance lead, bean counter, or presentation slide deck preparer, then you should read this book. If you’re doing a pitch I’m going to see, I want you to have read this book. Painting with Numbers , by Randall Bolten.

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TechCrunch

JULY 13, 2022

The agency — which has spun out the likes of Nigerian artiste Joeboy and Ghanaian artiste Kwesi Arthur — now has its tentacles spread in marketing, distribution, publishing, management and finance services for independent artists and record labels. It was about owning something bigger than myself, which can be great someday.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 1, 2022

million in seed funding in a round led by Crew Capital , an under-the-radar venture firm co-founded by UiPath co-founder and co-CEO Daniel Dines and UiPath chief strategy officer Brandon Deer. 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.

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