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Extracting More Than Cash From Your Angel Investors

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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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Entrepreneurs Love Celebrity Investors While VCs (Usually) Hate Them

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Entrepreneurs typically embrace celebrity investments, while most sophisticated investors prefer to avoid famous entertainment or sports personalities on the cap table. The Elusive High-Profile, Fully-Engaged Investor. However, not all investor dollars carry the same relative value. What’s the cause of this incongruence?

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

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A from a new outside lead. 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 are no villains in the current Series A drama.

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Bootstrapping Organic Growth Makes Startup Sense

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Bootstrapping avoids all the cost, pain, and distractions of finding angels or VCs, and allows you to keep control and all your hard-earned equity for yourself. Despite all the focus you hear on external investors, over 90% of startups today are self-funded. Simply take enough to live on, but not to the point of your detriment.