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What are the most valuable recommendations in order to raise money from VCs connected via Gust?

Gust

Investor profiles on the platform are created by the investors themselves, and tell you exactly who the group’s leaders are, and what they are looking for. There’s no use banging your head against a VC’s door with a social network venture if they only invest in biotech companies.

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Where To Find The Most Angels To Fund Your Startup

Startup Professionals Musings

Although relatively new, AngelList already has featured over 42,000 businesses and provided over 28,000 introductions to potential investors in a format that''s, effectively, a social network for entrepreneurs and Angels. Angel Capital Association (ACA). Keiretsu Forum.

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Start Here if You are Looking for Angel Investors

Startup Professionals Musings

The format is more social networking in nature, and they also will soon provide a recruiting portal for crowdfunding with unaccredited investors, now that the US JOBS Act has been passed. Angel Capital Association (ACA). ACA membership includes more than 160 angel groups and 20 affiliate organizations across North America.

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How Universities Can Help Students and Alumni Work in the Tech Industry

David Teten

But now, the defining movie of today’s twentysomethings is “The Social Network”. One of the unique provisions of that program was that it was open to people without any NYU affiliation; they just had to work physically at the NYU Future Labs. Create a Yale-affiliated angel group, under the university’s official auspices.

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VCs eating our own dog food: Using technology and analytics to make better investments

David Teten

A major angel group uses Influitive , an advocate management tool, to track, activate and motivate their members. Other VCs use Contently * or Social Native * to create relevant content. Boardex and Relationship Science make it easier to understand and map social networks into potential limited partners.

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ProfessorVC: Touched by an Angel

Professor VC

What would the VC corollary to Touched by an Angel, be. I was on a panel earlier this week with several other investors from Angel Groups in the Valley. One of my comments was that we would likely see more institutionalization of angel groups and syndication of deals among groups. See you next time.

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Resources to Find Angel Funding

Business Plan Blog

The site has more than 1,000 member-managed groups and VCs, with 40,000 investors and more than 1,800 startups funded in the last 12 months. 2) Angel List - Founded in 2010 by Naval Ravikant and Babak Nivi of Venture Hacks. It is more of a social networking for raising equity.