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Calacanis Takes On Keiretsu Forum On Fees

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Jason Calacanis , CEO of Santa Monica-based Mahalo.com and co-producer of the TechCrunch50 conference--not known for pulling his punches--publicly targeted angel group The Keiretsu Forum today for their presentation fees. In Calacanis' personal blog, he called for bloggers to launch a public campaign against Keiretsu.

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Calacanis/Keiretsu Tiff Heats Up With Lawsuit

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A personal campaign by Santa Monica-based Mahalo.com 's CEO, Jason Calacanis, to put pressure on for-profit angel investment firms to stop charging entrepreneurs to pitch, has ramped up, as Calacanis said Tuesday that he has been informed that Keiretsu Forum is filing a lawsuit against him.

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Calacanis: First Angels In New Angel Group

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Calacanis--who started the group as an outgrowth of his crusade against pay-to-pitch angel groups like The Keiretsu Forum--said in his blog today that he has signed up Matt Coffin , Sky Dayton , and Bill Woodward as members of his group.

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The Silent Killer – The Company Your Community Never Created

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I then got my MBA at University of Chicago so I secretly pull for local entrepreneurs as long as they don’t make me visit in the Winter any more. I think government and community members need to understand that capital formation is an incredibly important part of economic revival. ” I don’t see much evidence of that.

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Find an Angel Investor, Without Going Through Hell

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It boasts 595 member-managed groups and VCs, 30,203 investors, and 2,900 new company applications a month. As an entrepreneur, simply enter your location online, and it will list the angel and VC organizations near you. Keiretsu Forum. New England Investment Network.

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Where To Find The Most Angels To Fund Your Startup

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It powers over 1,000 investment Angel and VC groups in 80+ countries. As an entrepreneur, you simply use their investor search engine to find appropriate investors for your business according to location, industry interest and other relevant criteria. Keiretsu Forum. angels entrepreneur funding groups startup'

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7 Strategies To Reduce The Cost Of Finding Investors

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Most new entrepreneurs assume that great investors will find their startups based on the compelling solution the founders have created. Thus it behooves every entrepreneur to optimize their investment strategies early, based on time and dollar costs, as well as odds of success. There are just too many scams.

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