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10 Action Items to Keep Angel Investors Hovering

Startup Professionals Musings

But many entrepreneurs don’t realize that Angels are also extremely discerning in the projects that they will invest in, rejecting approximately 97% of the proposals submitted to them, according to the California Investment Network. In today’s world, if you don’t have a web site up and running, you will not be perceived as a real company.

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10 Preparation Steps to Win an Angel Investment

Startup Professionals Musings

The Gust Deal Funnel from the last 12 months indicates is that 70% of the interested companies never make it past the initial screening process. That’s why this item is so important, and is probably the biggest stumbling block I see in getting through the initial angel screening. are eliminated during due diligence.

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Top Ten Action Items For Angel Funding Success

Startup Professionals Musings

The AngelSoft Deal Funnel from the last 12 months indicates is that 70% of the interested companies never make it past the initial screening process. That’s why this item is so important, and is probably the biggest stumbling block I see in getting through the initial angel screening. are eliminated during due diligence.

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Top 29 Startup Posts May 2010

SoCal CTO

He started targeting the ad by location and interest, and the number of potential people he was reaching began decreasing on screen (Facebook tells you dynamically). Last week I was having coffee with an ex engineering student of mine now on his second startup (and for a change it wasn’t a Web 2.0 It’s also the wrong answer.

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What to do When a Tech Giant Decides to Eat Your Lunch

Both Sides of the Table

While Google stopped Facebook in their tracks when they built a social networking company. And Facebook stomped out Twitter from building an open social network. Skype is an amazing web company. Expect big competition in the group messaging market. from winning the Internet portal wars. And on and on.

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The Most Interesting Online Video Trend

Both Sides of the Table

They help find talented film makers globally, enter them into competitions and advance the best of them toward winners that get to produce full-length films. Filmaka is the creation of Deepak Nayar who is the producer of films such as Buena Vista Social Club and Bend it Like Beckham. means specifically one thing.

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The Radical Evolution of Mobile Apps

Tech Zulu Event

Of that smartphone internet time, mobile apps take up 86% of usage and only 14% access time via the mobile web. It is a good thing that there is an app for everything today — work, social media, games, shopping, travel, photography, and schedule of movie screenings. Google followed immediately and introduced Android.

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