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Extracting More Than Cash From Your Angel Investors

InfoChachkie

In order to extract value beyond your Angel investors' cash, you must first assess three important parameters: (i) the relative strength of their personal brand, (ii) their ability to add operational value, and (iii) the amount of care and feeding they will demand from you. Four Common Angel Archetypes.

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Brad Feld Drops Knowledge. Here’s What He Said …

Both Sides of the Table

My initial desire to blog came from something that’s always been my approach to investing – I’m a nerd and I love to play with the technology and part of my approach has really been to understand things both at a user level and at a reasonably deep tentacle level. RSS was something that had appeared.” “….I we are not going to invest.

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How This Startup Kicked Oracle’s A$$

InfoChachkie

Note: I am a micro-Angel investor in Eucalyptus. They all invested. We took an investment of 2M Euros. • Facebook • Twitter • Delicious • LinkedIn • StumbleUpon • Add to favorites • Email • RSS. Yet Another Overnight Success. You must not pull out now. We spent 1.6M

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6 Steps To Raising Venture Capital – Hint: Preparation Matters More Than Your Pitch

InfoChachkie

Send them a private message via Twitter or Quora that contains a compelling link relevant to their investment focus. Step 4: Reconnaissance Mission, Under Promise – An effective technique for acquiring investment capital is to initially not ask for money. Follow them on Twitter, Quora and become familiar with their Facebook presence.

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Go West Young Men: Winklevoss Twins Buy $18M L.A. Mansion To Dive Into SoCal Tech Scene

SoCal Delicious

I love to rib the Winklevoss twins as much as anyone , but focusing more on California does seem like a smart move to show that they are serious about tech investing. The San Francisco Bay Area is still the epicenter when it comes to tech, and Los Angeles has indeed been heating up as a startup hub in recent years. About & Staff.

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How To Become a VC

InfoChachkie

There are many paths into the VC world, but they can generally be lumped into two categories: (i) serial entrepreneurship, and (ii) tech-oriented investment banking. In contrast, an Angel Investor is someone who invests their own capital. All you need do to become an Angel is identify a promising venture and write a check.

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The Series A Crunch Is For Entrepreneurs Who Can’t Create Their Own Luck

InfoChachkie

This is due to a fundamental disconnect between the increased activity of high-volume seed investors (that fill out lots of Seed rounds) and the relatively small number of Series A investors, who only make 1 or 2 investments, per partner, per year.". There is a similar Darwinian aspect to venture capital investing.