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Current State of Angels and Boards of Directors

Angel Capital Association

Angels often make their first real impact post-investment by helping a portfolio company develop a “real” Board, by insisting on documented processes, key metrics and measures and a more rigorous approach to corporate oversight and accountability. In the latter case, returns improved by 20%. with an average of 5.7 Director seats.

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Fuel Me Raises $18 Million Series A Round

HPA

Focusing on mission-critical energy needs across industries like data centers, construction, and transportation. Fuel Me provides efficient fuel operations through an aggregated nationwide fuel procurement vendor network. Eddie Leshin is a Board Member & Senior Business Advisor at Sheer Logistics and a partner at Woodlawn Partners.

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K-Startup Grand Challenge 2022: The world’s most tech-savvy country South Korea invites startups to grow their businesses

AsiaTechDaily

month program supports startups financially and gives them multiple opportunities to network with top tech companies, VCs, mentors, etc. Shin is now part of our Advisory Board,” said Aykan Ekici, co-founder of Khenda, the top winner of KSGC 2021.

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Korea’s leading accelerator program, K-Startup Grand Challenge’s alumni startups thriving in Asia

AsiaTechDaily

The program supports startups financially and gives them multiple opportunities to network with top tech companies, VCs, mentors, etc. During KSGC 2021, Khenda got introduced to prominent Korean businessman Dong Hoon Shin, who eventually joined the company’s advisory board. One of them is access to mentors and great networking.

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73.6% of all Statistics are Made Up

Both Sides of the Table

In 1999 I was in Japan doing a strategy project for the board of directors of Sony. We were looking at all sorts of strategic decisions that Sony was considering, which required analysis and data on broadband networks, Internet portas and mobile handsets/networks. And then I triangulate.

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AeroCloud, a cloud-native airport management platform, raises $12.6M

TechCrunch

it counts Tampa International and John Wayne Airport as customers, processing some 150 million passengers each year across the board. ” The problem, according to Richardson, is that many of the on-premises legacy solutions don’t make it easy to access data, instead promoting data siloes through homegrown tech stacks. .

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IdeaPAD case study: How do you define and build value for an existing product?

Paul G. Silva

Example For the entertainment data client that approached PixelEdge, they already had data and technology. They had an investment information tool for their space, including research and data analysis. They have great internal resources and a large external network to work with.

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