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Angel Funding Advice

Both Sides of the Table

I recently wrote a post on angel financing covering the topic of convertible notes but I realized I was thinking about the issue more from investor perspective and a very narrow topic of how to price the round. This post is for those who want to raise angel money. At an angel round you can get away with no market validation.

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How to Hunt Programmers for Your Startup - A Field Guide

SoCal CTO

Have you tested the concept with customers using paper? Have you signed some test customers? Don't try to hunting programmers until you've pushed this as far as you can on paper and get early customers. He had a few early customers ready to go. Have you done all you can on paper? Do you have wireframes?

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How to Hunt Programmers for Your Startup - A Field Guide

SoCal CTO

Have you tested the concept with customers using paper? Have you signed some test customers? Don't try to hunting programmers until you've pushed this as far as you can on paper and get early customers. He had a few early customers ready to go. Have you done all you can on paper? Do you have wireframes?

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Early Stage Marketing and Branding – Farida Fotouhi

SoCal CTO

We came up with a positioning strategy that helps them sell value-added when recession-pinched customers are squeezing them for low rates. Again, maybe a blog post. :) What do you think of the concepts of visible networking and online business networking in Los Angeles ? Not one of these ways is low rates.

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What Jonah @Peretti, CEO of BuzzFeed, Sees in the Future of Digital Media

Both Sides of the Table

https://medium.com/media/cc969482e7abf6b75d3c0958c8ee409d/href I moved to Los Angeles in 2007 and as a VC who had built his career as a programmer, database designer, program manager, CEO then VP Products at Salesforce, I wanted to build a portfolio of software investments. Video is the new HTML.” Back then there were “email forwards.”

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