Entrepreneurs' Organization

JANUARY 5, 2024

Set Goals Like Google: Why OKRs Surpass Other Goal-Setting Methods for Entrepreneurs Eric Crews (EO Boston), founder and CEO of management consulting firm Crews & co., Million in Startup Funding Tal Moore (EO Los Angeles) is a serial entrepreneur and founder of Popsmith. shared his preferred goal-setting methodology. “I’ve

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Jason Malki

MARCH 9, 2023

I had the pleasure of interviewing Karen Sheffield, the Founder & Managing Partner of Pachamama Ventures, a venture capital firm investing in US early-stage climate tech companies. How did you break into tech investing? I was already investing in public stocks, bonds, and preparing to make my 1st home purchase.

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AsiaTechDaily

FEBRUARY 20, 2023

Aside from market forecast, Low also tells AsiaTechDesk about The Hive Southeast Asia, the mistakes founders make when raising money, and the other sectors that will see increased interest. It provides a venture studio that works actively with founders in the early stages to help them create and launch startups.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 19, 2022

Co-founder and CTO Juan Manuel Cuello had the idea for Fudo back in 2014 after working as a developer at Restorando.com, an Open table-like company that was acquired by The Fork. He bootstrapped the company before getting angel investment. We want to actually capture that opportunity.”. Image Credits: Fudo.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

JANUARY 5, 2024

Set Goals Like Google: Why OKRs Surpass Other Goal-Setting Methods for Entrepreneurs Eric Crews (EO Boston), founder and CEO of management consulting firm Crews & co., Million in Startup Funding Tal Moore (EO Los Angeles) is a serial entrepreneur and founder of Popsmith. shared his preferred goal-setting methodology. “I’ve

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Jason Malki

OCTOBER 24, 2023

Triet has a wealth of experience in portfolio support, angel investing, venture scout networks, advising emerging funds and startups, and has also been a founder himself. These mentors, comprising successful founders, angel investors, VCs, and LPs, provided invaluable insights for which I am deeply grateful.

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Angel Capital Association

MAY 20, 2021

Fresh for 2021, the Innovation Funders Showcase Company Flipbook provided a sneak peek of all the companies presenting, along with critical information such as market strategy, opportunities and more. All three of these companies are made up of female founders who are disrupting their respective spaces.

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Angel Capital Association

JUNE 14, 2023

More than ever, angel investors play an important role in solving some of the world’s greatest challenges, and they level the playing field in ways that support socioeconomic situations and diversity. For investors themselves, angel investing is a mix of exhilaration and caution. Get to know people and groups in your area.

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StartupNation

AUGUST 8, 2021

But financing isn’t always easy — especially if you’re the proud founder of a brand new business. Pitch your business idea at a competition to earn startup funding. You’ll be up against other brilliant ideas, but it’s an excellent opportunity to win financing. Check out this list of pitching competitions.

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

AUGUST 3, 2022

Even if I considered expanding or adding more features that the users were looking for, my biggest challenge was improving the build, which would require me to hire developers as I’m a non-tech founder. And that happens with most of the founders. A sentence about the market & future opportunity. What’s next?

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 11, 2020

While Campuswire’s pitch was set to boom overnight, the founder instead saw a bigger challenge approaching: more competition. Campuswire courses kick off with an angel investing class taught by Charles Hudson, the founder and general partner of Precursor Ventures. The strategy, for the most part, has worked.

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StartupNation

FEBRUARY 15, 2021

On this morning’s WJR Business beat, Jeff discusses grant and contest opportunities available to entrepreneurs in the state of Michigan who are looking for funding. Tune in below to learn more about these grant and contest opportunities! Don’t qualify for angel or venture investment? for the WJR Business Beat.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 22, 2023

If you plan to launch a new startup in France, Denmark or Sweden, there is a new seed fund looking for your pitch. He has also invested some of his own money as a business angel. Durao and de Raphélis Soissan had built an interesting portfolio of angel investments before launching Emblem.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

The duo met as early employees at Facebook, where they became close friends and eventually tech operators who shared notes on everything from grad school to angel investing. Around 38% of LPs are founders or former founders. Funding for female founders is dropping. The timing of the firm’s public launch is notable.

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Gust

JULY 23, 2014

So even if my own mother asked me to meet with you, and you were pitching me a biotech opportunity for a $10 million investment at a $90 million valuation, I might take the meeting, but it wouldn’t be particularly useful for either of us. In this case, it’s not a lack of interest, just a lack of time and efficiency.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 6, 2022

Austin made headlines in 2021 for being “the place” for startup founders and venture capitalists alike to set up shop. TechCrunch Live is a free weekly event featuring investors, founders, and startups with the goal of helping entrepreneurs build better venture-backed businesses. Notably, S3’s investment thesis is focused on Texas.

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TechCrunch

JULY 7, 2022

“[With Gapps,] co-founder Antero Hanhirova and I saw a big opportunity to help enterprise companies in the Nordics with their cloud transformation,” Ojansuu told TechCrunch in a recent interview. ” Using Happeo’s editing tools to build an intranet portal.

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Gust

NOVEMBER 11, 2011

The founders have exactly the religious zeal you want to see, and tons of relevant experience, in a niche industry that, nonetheless, generates tons of money: urban fashion. But that’s not something the kinds of folks who do most angel investing understand. I’ve just watched this unfold with a new company I’m working with.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 21, 2022

But to build one, founders must first define clear goals and create value for participants. 2021 was a year like no other when it came to venture investment, and this year is poised to tread a similar path, writes 500 Global’s CEO and co-founder, Christine Tsai. 5 essential factors for attracting angel investment.

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Angel Capital Association

MARCH 5, 2021

Mirroring the entrepreneur training, SDAC provides investor training through an enhanced pitch competition run over a three-month series of events that culminate in a one-day conference, where a winner is awarded funds raised by the investors.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 15, 2010

Yet many would-be entrepreneurs feel that they don’t have enough access to investors and that the opportunity to present to a group will help them short circuit the fund raising process. Also present were NorCal angels including Ron Conway , Chris Sacca and Shervin Pishevar. And that’s really what you want.

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StartupNation

OCTOBER 5, 2021

SBA Local Assistance : Provides you with a list of local Small Business Development Centers that you can contact to find grant opportunities. Participating in an accelerator allows you to join a community of other startups in the program, be provided with networking opportunities, and have the chance to elicit feedback from your peers.

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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. Luxus co-founder and CEO Dana Auslander Image Credits: Luxus. The company has raised $2.5

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Gust

SEPTEMBER 27, 2014

A typical VC might see 500 opportunities cross his or her desk every year; for larger, more prominent ones it could be 2,000. 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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This is going to be BIG.

JANUARY 16, 2013

Someone gets all of the most powerful and connected women in NYC--Barbara Corcoran, Beth Comstock, and maybe even folks like Lady Gaga--and puts together a Founder Collective--like venture fund. They'd naturally get 100% of all of the female founder dealflow--but women funding women isn't new. The problem is that so few women pitch.

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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. Co-founder Paul Graham got his Masters and Doctorate degrees from Harvard. Robert Morris, another co-founder, was a professor at MIT.

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Angel Capital Association

JULY 23, 2020

By: Lance Cottrell, North Bay Angels Editors Note - The following article shares points from one investor to founders. Or, do you have additional advice for founders who pitch to your group? I answer more questions and provide more coaching about investor pitches than anything else. New opportunities?

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Angel Capital Association

MARCH 22, 2023

The Search: Finding Your Angel Collaboration Platform The Angel Capital Association, in concert with Jeffrey Lang of the Desert Angels and ACA’s proud partner Dealum , has published this informative interview on one of 2023’s most important topics in the angel investment space: angel group collaboration.

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David Teten VC

MARCH 14, 2023

We are one of the world’s largest and most active single-chapter angel groups. We have over 140 members who have invested over $145m personally, in 317 companies, with 58 exits. We were founded in 2004 by David Rose, Founder & Executive Chairman, Gust. Q: Managing the subscription process for angels can be tricky.

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This is going to be BIG.

NOVEMBER 16, 2015

It just seemed like a fitting title for a company built around narrative by a founder who used to write stories for a living. I'm joined by Lerer Hippeau Ventures, Red Sea Ventures, NucleasHG, the founders of Seamless, a host of extremely helpful angels, and a CircleUp syndicate led by my friend Tom Potter, co-founder of Brooklyn Brewery.

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David Teten VC

MARCH 30, 2023

We’ve assembled over 300 investors from over 30 states and 6 international countries, where many of our members are current or former operators & founders with experience battling some of the same challenges that our portfolio founders face. clipr transcribes and categorizes the content of our pitch meeting video recordings.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 14, 2022

Casual mobile games have reached a fever pitch of interest with consumers, and so too with investors, who are rushing to back the biggest and most promising startups building these quick hits of engagement and diversion. Now this capital gives us firepower.” “It’s my mom, my aunt, who are playing these,” he said.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 18, 2011

If you haven’t read the post the thesis was that I care way more about watching the trajectory of your performance as a team (or individual) than I do about how good you “pitch” on the first day you come to see me. He quit the MRF and quietly amassed nearly $100,000 in angel investment to build a company. Pose is no different.

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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. Keep in mind that any cash you put in will remain in the company as Founders’ Equity, and will only come back to you on a successful exit in which your investors make money. [3a.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 8, 2020

Sebastian Siemiatkowski, the co-founder and CEO of Klarna — the Swedish fintech “buy now, pay later” sensation that is currently Europe’s most valuable private tech company — is dismissive of the suggestion that non U.S. Pitch perfect, you might think. companies should relocate to Silicon Valley if they really want to grow.

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This is going to be BIG.

MARCH 25, 2013

It's a lot more lucrative to convert a warehouse into a condo building--especially if it's anywhere near the city--but it's those areas where innovators are creating economic opportunity as well, and where they need commercial space to thrive. 33 Flatbush. Drop me a line at charlie@brooklynbridgeventures.com.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 8, 2020

Sebastian Siemiatkowski, the co-founder and CEO of Klarna — the Swedish fintech “buy now, pay later” sensation that is currently Europe’s most valuable private tech company — is dismissive of the suggestion that non U.S. Pitch perfect, you might think. companies should relocate to Silicon Valley if they really want to grow.

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