Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 17, 2013

Many entrepreneurs seems to be convinced that the “crowd” of regular people using the Internet will somehow solve their startup funding needs, when they sense a lack of interest from accredited investors. No one contemplates including a business plan, investor presentation, or even the equivalent of an executive summary.

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Non-disclosure Agreement Intellectual Property Accredited Investor Equity 266

Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 10, 2014

Many entrepreneurs seems to be convinced that the “crowd” of regular people using the Internet will somehow solve their startup funding needs, when they sense a lack of interest from accredited investors. No one contemplates including a business plan, investor presentation, or even the equivalent of an executive summary.

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Non-disclosure Agreement Intellectual Property Accredited Investor Equity 254

Gust

NOVEMBER 2, 2014

Many entrepreneurs seems to be convinced that the “crowd” of regular people using the Internet will somehow solve their startup funding needs, when they sense a lack of interest from accredited investors. No one contemplates including a business plan, investor presentation, or even the equivalent of an executive summary.

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Non-disclosure Agreement Intellectual Property Accredited Investor Equity 160

Gust

JANUARY 15, 2014

At the moment, use of Gust is available only to members of organized angel groups and networks, to VC funds (including many of the so-called ‘super angels’), and to accredited investors who have been specifically invited on to the platform by one of the 150,000 startups that use Gust to manage their investor relations.

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Angel Investor Belarus Portugal Accredited Investor 119

Up and Running

AUGUST 26, 2014

506(c) offerings must be made only by accredited investors, whereas crowdfunding ventures are free to accept backing from nonaccredited investors as well. On top of that, Rule 506(c) investors must be verified as accredited investors. Are they likely to have the financial security to be accredited?

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Accredited Investor Securities and Exchange Commission SEC Equity 88

Professor VC

APRIL 1, 2010

I prefer the traditional face to face where you can interact with the other panelists and audience, but was the first panel I did wearing my favorite flannel penguin pajamas. This will both reduce the number of angel investors and make it more difficult to syndicate across stage lines. Well, not exactly.I

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Term Sheet Angel Investor San Jose Venture Capital 32

This is going to be BIG.

SEPTEMBER 18, 2019

We run a series of best practice workshops where we put top VCs in front of audiences of new junior professionals at funds and accredited investors looking to start angel investing—and we intentionally seek out underrepresented people to join. Contact me here to find out more about this.)

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Venture Capital Community Accredited Investor Deal Flow 94