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6 New Venture Realities To Target Your Funding Effort

Startup Professionals Musings

Entrepreneurs who require funding for their startup have long counted on self-accredited high net worth individuals (“angels”) to fill their needs, after friends and family, and before they qualify for institutional investments (“VCs”). They will need more money. If you subscribe to truths one to five, startup investing can be lucrative.

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Three Factors Which Intoxicate Venture Capitalists - Why Your Startup Will (Probably) Not Raise Venture Capital Funding

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Other than shortening the investor’s quarterly commute to your Board meetings, the net benefits of relocating for many startups are illusory, as I describe HERE. Naval Ravikant describes how Silicon Valley’s dominance over the venture capital landscape will evolve over time in the previously mentioned interview. Thanks Mr. Big Firm VC.

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If Your Passion Is Saving The Environment, Start Here

Startup Professionals Musings

Al Gore, by just talking about it, still seems to be leading the way in monetization, having amassed an estimated net worth reported recently as around $300 million. I still see a big opportunity to capitalize on sustainability, attract investors, be the next unicorn, and leave a legacy you can be proud of.

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Angel Investors Are Still The Lifeblood Of Startups

Startup Professionals Musings

Entrepreneurs who require funding for their startup have long counted on self-accredited high net worth individuals (“angels”) to fill their needs, after friends and family, and before they qualify for institutional investments (“VCs”). billion collected in 2014. They will need more money.

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6 Reasons Startups Need All Angels Plus Crowd Funding

Startup Professionals Musings

Entrepreneurs who require funding for their startup have long counted on self-accredited high net worth individuals (“angels”) to fill their needs, after friends and family, and before they qualify for institutional investments (“VCs”). They will need more money. If you subscribe to truths one to five, startup investing can be lucrative.

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Crowd Funding Has Not Killed Angel Investing Yet

Startup Professionals Musings

Entrepreneurs who require funding for their startup have long counted on self-accredited high net worth individuals (“angels”) to fill their needs, after friends and family, and before they qualify for institutional investments (“VCs”). billion collected in 2012. They will need more money.

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Interview with Robin Richards, CareerArc

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com, and Vivendi Universal Net USA, where he was also CEO. Statistically, you are 10x more likely to get hired through a referral by an employee than a non-referral. That provides a lot of efficiency in how we deploy capital, and simply just makes it work better. Richards also has been an active angel investor in local startups.

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