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Vyng Picks Up $4M For Video Ringtones

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Venice, California-based startup Vyng , which develops software which turns calls from friends into cute "video ringtones" that show up on your lock screen when a friend calls, has raised $4M in a funding round, the company said on Thursday. Paul Kats is the CEO and co-founder of Vyng. READ MORE>>.

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10 Ways To Make Your Funding Pitch More Hard-Hitting

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The average length of a funding pitch to angel investors is ten minutes. The first words out of your mouth should be “Can everyone hear me, and read the screen?” Investors don’t need to know the implementation details of your patent or customer support plan. Or they get sidetracked by a technical glitch due to poor preparation.

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10 Funding Quotes Every Entrepreneur Should Skip

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No investor wants to wait that long for his return, or fund the years of waiting. That’s probably the soft way of saying, we don’t have a patent or any “secret sauce” for a competitive advantage. If the entrepreneur and team were that proven, they probably would be funding others rather than asking for money.

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Top Ten Action Items For Angel Funding Success

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Every new startup I know dreams of being funded by an angel investor. Yet according to the latest data from AngelSoft , only about 3 out of 100 companies who initiate the formal request process actually get funded. Remember the old adage that “investors fund people, not ideas.” are eliminated during due diligence.

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10 Guidelines for Angel Funding Presentations

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The average length of a funding pitch to Angel investors is ten minutes. The first words out of your mouth should be “Can everyone hear me, and read the screen?” Investors don’t need to know the implementation details of your patent or customer support plan. entrepreneur startup funding angel investors presentation business'

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Gene Dolgoff's 3D Vision: Using Crowdfunding To Turn the World 3D

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It was a series of different technologies we had ot develop and apply for patents on, and now that we have it, we're working on a prototype. We have a business plan and private placement on that site, and recently started searching for investors to raise the funds we needed to go into production, and start marketing and sales.

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10 Action Items to Keep Angel Investors Hovering

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Every new startup I know dreams of being funded early by one of the 318,000 active Angel investors in the USA alone. Most of these investors are members of Angel groups that have a rigorous filtering and screening process, to select the top 3% and most fundable proposals. Remember the old adage that “investors fund people, not ideas.”

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