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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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Pricing Customer Acquisition Sunk Costs and More - Ten Recent Great Startup Posts

SoCal CTO

Startup Killer: the Cost of Customer Acquisition | For Entrepreneurs , February 2, 2010 Looks at the critical equation around customer acquisition cost vs. customer lifetime value similar to what I discussed in Startup Metrics but in more depth. This post looks at the implementation details of HTML 5 video.

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Interview with Rahul Sonnad, Geodelic

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A few weeks ago, Rahul Sonnad --a serial entrepreneur who is best known for founding and selling thePlatform to Comcast--alternately confused and dazzled attendees at Twiistup, the Los Angeles tech conference, with a fake-stilted-Indian-immigrant and ukulele-singing-and-dancing studded pitch for his firm, Geodelic (www.geodelic.com).

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How Nix Hydra's Egg Baby Cracked The Code For Female Gamers

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The company just raised a $5M funding round for its efforts, from Foundry Group and a number of angels. We sat down with Lina Chen and Naomi Ladizinsky , co-founders of Nix Hydra, to learn more about their hit game, Egg Baby, the perils of trying to get funding as female entrepreneurs, and what they''re working on next.

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How to Hunt Programmers for Your Startup - A Field Guide

SoCal CTO

In the case of the entrepreneur that was the genesis of this post, he had done a lot on paper. Tech Events / Meetups - There are lots of Networking Events in Los Angeles and Southern California that are techie oriented. In this case, these sites didn't pan out all that well for the entrepreneur. More on this below.

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How to Hunt Programmers for Your Startup - A Field Guide

SoCal CTO

In the case of the entrepreneur that was the genesis of this post, he had done a lot on paper. Tech Events / Meetups - There are lots of Networking Events in Los Angeles and Southern California that are techie oriented. In this case, these sites didn't pan out all that well for the entrepreneur. More on this below.

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