TechCrunch

AUGUST 19, 2022

He bootstrapped the company before getting angel investment. That has venture capitalists taking notice. For example, this year, companies like PreciTaste , Bear Robotics and Lunchbox all received investments for their approaches to streamline restaurant operations. We want to actually capture that opportunity.”.

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StartupNation

AUGUST 8, 2021

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. Angel investing and venture capital (VC). Startup competitions.

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TechCrunch

JULY 6, 2021

However , some venture firms have taken this up a notch by bringing founders to create a fund and invest together. Olubusi, who had built and exited a couple of startups over the years, also dabbled with angel investing for some time. I was pitching on the day, but I was also listening to other pitches.

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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. Just like how the U.S.

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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. Client segments? What problem are we solving?

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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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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? So where to turn.

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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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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. In 2017, the two officially incorporated the company.

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Onevest

APRIL 30, 2015

While the Wall Street Journal claims “very few start-ups” received angel investment in 2007, Stanford Graduate School of Business, Center for Entrepreneurial Studies proclaims “90% of all see and start-up capital” comes from angel investors. Just 2% of startup financing actually comes from venture capital firms.

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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. Register here. It’s free.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 21, 2022

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. All signs point to a continued abundance of opportunities for startup founders and investors in the year ahead.”.

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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. A sentence about the market & future opportunity. Make it small & cut the crab.

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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

MARCH 3, 2023

This includes fostering developer relations, such as asking them to join a community or inviting them to contribute to an open source project; requesting their expertise for a specific problem; and even to help developer tool companies pitch their wares. “This week we’re launching Prog.ai Analyze that So how does Prog.ai

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Gust

NOVEMBER 11, 2011

But that’s not something the kinds of folks who do most angel investing understand. One pitched investor whispered “don’t we have better things to do with our time?”). So, spreadsheets, inside knowledge, and examples notwithstanding, the entrepreneurs couldn’t convince professional investors of the opportunity.

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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. One of the primary ones is the referral source.

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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. 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.

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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. Many of these collectibles have been unlocked in the past few years, but one major market has remained difficult for tech startups to crack — luxury gems.

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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. I remember the Demo Day in 2007 where DropBox presented to about 30 Boston area Angels and Venture Capital investors.

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This is going to be BIG.

NOVEMBER 16, 2015

It's a story that just hit a milestone--a $4mm round of venture funding that I'm ecstatic to say Brooklyn Bridge Ventures just led. But just because you could see them everywhere doesn't make them an obvious venture bet--nor does it tell the story of how the round even came to be. At least, I thought it was.

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Gust

DECEMBER 5, 2011

Disruptive technologies and grand new solutions can ultimately change the world, and create a large opportunity, but they are not exciting to early-stage investors for the following reasons: Fundamental changes take a long time to happen. These are usually called ‘disruptive’ technologies.

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Gust

DECEMBER 19, 2011

Yet every investor knows that a mere startup will not be able to afford a patent battle in court, and most patents can be circumvented if the opportunity is large enough. Patents are worthwhile, so this answer is far better than the first five.

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David Teten VC

MARCH 14, 2023

Knack – a design-it-yourself, relational database recording membership and investments. AngelSurvey (our own custom site for recording member interest after pitches). Q: What tech tools do you find helpful for expediting the stages of due diligence, both institutionally and via each angel’s own due diligence process?

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David Teten VC

MARCH 30, 2023

Formstack alongside All Stage & Zapier allows us to solicit pitch meetings dates from founders, for deal leads to request SPV creation, for members to refer new members. clipr transcribes and categorizes the content of our pitch meeting video recordings. Zoom is our platform of choice for pitch meetings and internal meetings.

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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.”

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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. A good beginning would be Bill Payne’s The Definitive Guide to Raising Money from Angels, available as a free download from [link]. Understand your business.

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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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This is going to be BIG.

MARCH 25, 2013

Anyone who was doing something new and cutting edge should feel connected to each other--whether or not they are building a venture backed startup. It's even more relevant now that I've started the first venture capital fund in Brooklyn-- Brooklyn Bridge Ventures --and invested in four Brooklyn based companies.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 8, 2020

We also learn how, under his watch and as the company began to scale, Klarna missed the next big opportunity in fintech, instead being usurped by Adyen and Stripe. Siemiatkowski also shares what’s next for the company as it ventures further into the world of retail banking after gaining a bank license in 2017.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 8, 2020

We also learn how, under his watch and as the company began to scale, Klarna missed the next big opportunity in fintech, instead being usurped by Adyen and Stripe. Siemiatkowski also shares what’s next for the company as it ventures further into the world of retail banking after gaining a bank license in 2017.

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NZ Entrepreneur

JULY 8, 2019

In the first of a three part series on early stage business investment, we asked serial entrepreneur and investor Josh Comrie what three key things New Zealand entrepreneurs must get better at when it comes to seeking angel investment. I made my first investment in the stock market when I was 12 years old.

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Gust

JANUARY 5, 2012

If large amounts of capital are required for startup companies to dominate a market, then the preferences of larger investors, such as angels and venture capitalists should be paramount in importance to entrepreneurs. Let’s be frank: neither angels nor VCs choose to invest alongside large numbers of less-than-sophisticated investors.

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StartupNation

JANUARY 6, 2022

There are fantastic rewards to be had for those who know how to exploit the new opportunities for business funding that arise in times like these. Angel investment. Venture capital or VC. Get angel investment for your startup. How Angel and Venture Capital Funding Shape the Future of Innovation.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 15, 2022

raised more money from venture capitalists in 2021 than ever. We spoke with six of them to share their fundraising experiences in a venture capital market that can be unfriendly toward women. . They believed in the team, vision, mission and the opportunity of building streamlined cross-border commerce solutions for African consumers.

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David Teten VC

JUNE 14, 2021

Former founders of successful ventures receive even fewer [emphasis added] callbacks than former founders of failed ventures. 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. Work with a venture studio.

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