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Who Should be on Your Startup Board?

Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 20, 2019

One of the things that founders have the most angst about is whom they should have on their board and at what stage of the business. This is smart because amazing board members can be transformative with important advice and access and can also help attract other great board members (and team members).

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Angel Capital Association’s Annual Summit is a Goldmine for Black Investors, Founders, and High Growth Startups Raising Capital

Angel Capital Association

MARCH 25, 2024

The Angel Capital Association (ACA) Summit represents a beacon for black investors, founders, and high-growth startups. This event, heralded as the industry’s flagship, convenes a diverse community of new and experienced angel investors, business leaders, and entrepreneurial minds to explore critical topics and trends in angel investing.

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Celebrating 2021 Accomplishments and Looking Ahead to New Opportunities

Angel Capital Association

JANUARY 13, 2022

Fostering these entrepreneurs and the economies they impact is a direct result of ACA’s mission to fuel the success of angel investor community. ACA’s Four Pillars: Bringing ACA’s Mission to Life Community Networking The heartbeat of our community networking pillar is our diversity, equity, and inclusion effort.

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Celebrating 2022 Accomplishments and Looking Ahead to New Opportunities

Angel Capital Association

JANUARY 26, 2023

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. 2023 promises to be another exciting year, with new educational opportunities, additional networking and community building events.

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Celebrating 2023 Accomplishments and Looking Ahead to New Opportunities

Angel Capital Association

JANUARY 8, 2024

This project is designed to better educate the early stage investor community on the benefits of Deep Tech investments with the intention of increasing the amount of private capital available for deployment in the Deep Tech sector. Launched the new Boards in Action course, available in March as part of the AU winter term.

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He Believes in Angels: The Story of a Company Backed by 400 Angel Investors

Angel Capital Association

DECEMBER 7, 2020

Savara Pharmaceuticals, Rob’s 4th startup, is an orphan lung disease company working on inhaled investigational therapies. His belief in angel funding is a direct result of his success — his third company, Evity, sold for $100M just one year after it was founded, and a single round of angel investment provided the startup capital.

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Angels Confront the Apocalypse: How Angels Reacted to the Great Market Inversion of 2022

Angel Capital Association

MARCH 11, 2024

What some have called “startup apocalypse,” began with a decline in the S&P 500 (losing 20% of its value by Q4) and similar declines in other public markets. Data from the recently published 2023 Angel Capital Association Angel Funders Report can provide answers to these questions. And did we see lower returns in 2022?

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A Future Worth Creating: Fiscal Year Recap and Vision for Tomorrow

Angel Capital Association

JUNE 7, 2021

The future of our economies and our communities is at stake. Our investor community drives holistic wealth creation, leveraging dollars invested with the significant time and expertise that we commit to our budding ventures. The best way to predict the future is to create it,” as Abraham Lincoln once said. Public Policy.

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Project to Professionalize Entrepreneurship Ecosystem Building Progresses

Ecosystem Builder Hub

OCTOBER 4, 2022

The goal of EBLP is to collaboratively design, build, test, and validate a field-wide infrastructure that will accelerate adoption of ecosystem building as a practice in economic, community, workforce, and entrepreneurship development in the United States. Scaling the Startup Act. What would that look like? Regarding the Field.

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Professional development for tomorrow’s ecosystem builders

Ecosystem Builder Hub

SEPTEMBER 25, 2020

In the midst of supporting founders in their communities during a global pandemic, what do they wish they were more versed in? Many people will talk about the fact that a community needs a “unicorn” in order to get the ball rolling but I always counter that you need to create the conditions for a unicorn to flourish. Gabe Munoz.

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How do you attract family offices and other large investors to your direct investing platform?

David Teten VC

MAY 19, 2021

Same goes for SMB investment sites like Honeycomb Credit , The SMBX , and Worthy Bonds (business owners often fund others) and Prosper or Sofi (many funders have borrowed themselves).”. We also publish a lot of (free) investor reports and startup guides, and we have a weekly newsletter that goes out to 85k subscribers. Elite networks.

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How to Find a Job as a VC Scout: Compensation and Which Firms Are Recruiting

David Teten VC

MARCH 1, 2022

This is part of a series on building your career in venture capital: Reading list for working in private equity/venture capital , including all of the major online communities, programs, and educational options for people studying VC. For emerging VC and private equity investors: accelerators, platforms, communities, and incubators.

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Flexible VCs With Structures Between Equity and Revenue-Based Investing

David Teten VC

JANUARY 21, 2021

His work on VC and small communities can be found at greatercolorado.vc/blog. Jonathan Bragdon , CEO, describes Capacity as “a team of founders-turned-funders making non-dilutive, founder-aligned investments of $50-$300k in post-startup, post-revenue businesses planning to 2X revenues in 12-24 months. —– Indie.vc

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Flexible VCs With Structures Between Equity and Revenue-Based Investing

David Teten VC

JANUARY 21, 2021

His work on VC and small communities can be found at greatercolorado.vc/blog. Jonathan Bragdon , CEO, describes Capacity as “a team of founders-turned-funders making non-dilutive, founder-aligned investments of $50-$300k in post-startup, post-revenue businesses planning to 2X revenues in 12-24 months. —– Indie.vc

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Flexible VC, a New Model for Companies Targeting Profitability

David Teten VC

JANUARY 19, 2021

His work on VC and small communities can be found at greatercolorado.vc/blog. More and more startups are pursuing Revenue-Based VCs , but “RBI” doesn’t fit everyone. Funder Category. Lower level of community familiarity. Board seat, typically retained until company exit. Of the Inc. 5000 companies, only 6.5%

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Flexible VC, a New Model for Companies Targeting Profitability

David Teten VC

JANUARY 19, 2021

His work on VC and small communities can be found at greatercolorado.vc/blog. More and more startups are pursuing Revenue-Based VCs , but “RBI” doesn’t fit everyone. Funder Category. Lower level of community familiarity. Board seat, typically retained until company exit. Of the Inc. 5000 companies, only 6.5%

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6 African women CEOs discuss how they raised more than $1M in 2021

TechCrunch

MARCH 15, 2022

startups raked last year. It’s identical to what’s happening in Africa: Less than 1% of all VC dollars went toward startups with one or more women founders last year, according to The Big Deal , which details investments in Africa. In 2021, 11 such startups achieved that feat, a record year for this group.

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Startup Catalyst Brief

Who Should be on Your Startup Board?

Angel Capital Association’s Annual Summit is a Goldmine for Black Investors, Founders, and High Growth Startups Raising Capital

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Celebrating 2021 Accomplishments and Looking Ahead to New Opportunities

Celebrating 2022 Accomplishments and Looking Ahead to New Opportunities

Celebrating 2023 Accomplishments and Looking Ahead to New Opportunities

He Believes in Angels: The Story of a Company Backed by 400 Angel Investors

Angels Confront the Apocalypse: How Angels Reacted to the Great Market Inversion of 2022

A Future Worth Creating: Fiscal Year Recap and Vision for Tomorrow

Project to Professionalize Entrepreneurship Ecosystem Building Progresses

Professional development for tomorrow’s ecosystem builders

How do you attract family offices and other large investors to your direct investing platform?

How to Find a Job as a VC Scout: Compensation and Which Firms Are Recruiting

Flexible VCs With Structures Between Equity and Revenue-Based Investing

Flexible VCs With Structures Between Equity and Revenue-Based Investing

Flexible VC, a New Model for Companies Targeting Profitability

Flexible VC, a New Model for Companies Targeting Profitability

6 African women CEOs discuss how they raised more than $1M in 2021

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