Campus Entrepreneurship

OCTOBER 27, 2011

From the Inc piece, The Dos and Dont’s of Raising Money From Angels. First round of angel financing ($500,000). Second round of Angel financing ($1.2 Goldman explains the costs and benefits of Angel investors based on his experience and by doing so adds more life to the business plan.

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Gust

DECEMBER 1, 2011

Furthermore, with the recent activity of the Super Angels and trends in government grants, angel financings and VC investment, one could conclude that the total US volume of seed/startup investment is increasing.

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ReadWriteStart

DECEMBER 16, 2010

The company is profitable and has so far raised only $400,000 in friends and family and angel financing. Jimmy already has about 65 customers and about a million dollars in annual revenue. The top two competitors are both venture funded to the tune of $5 million each, and have about the same or lower customer traction.

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Genuine VC

FEBRUARY 3, 2011

Much of the VC blogosphere commentary about startups covers venture and angel financing with advice focused on company founders. But most people in the startup game aren’t VCs nor are they founders (yet)… but rather they’re employees of startups.

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ReadWriteStart

JULY 21, 2011

Earlier, of course, we covered AngelList at length , also a crowd sourcing venture in the angel financing space, and this week, we have covered SecondMarket , which is powering Facebook's private market capital raising. When two out of four pitches in a session are from the same category, it most certainly makes me take notice.

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Austin Startup

MARCH 25, 2011

Today the company has successfully raised angel financing, and they are investing in faster growth and adoption of their family gaming platform. After our summer program, the company went into the Austin Technology Incubator where they continued to learn, iterate, and grow.

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Gust

OCTOBER 3, 2011

It is not unusual to hear people refer to “angels-and-vcs” in a single breath, even though those are two very distinct groups with different attributes. If a company is appropriate for angel financing , for example, it is highly unlikely that it would also be in a position to raise venture capital, and vice versa.

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Growthink Blog

JANUARY 12, 2012

Raising money from Crowdfunding is so much easier and faster than traditional sources of funding like venture capital and angel financing. If you haven't, click here to get Crowdfunding for your business now!

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Berkonomics

NOVEMBER 7, 2013

500 CEO, serial entrepreneur and the founder of New York Angels. founder and CEO of Gust, the angel financing platform used by over 50,000. accredited investors in 1,000 angel groups and venture capital funds to. Described by BusinessWeek as a “world conquering. collaborate with over 250,000 entrepreneurs in 95 countries.

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Berkonomics

AUGUST 21, 2013

Venture or angel-financed companies with plenty of working capital sometimes are immune to this need for some time into their growth, but at some point it will become clear that the cheapest form of finance is not equity in a growing enterprise.

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Growthink Blog

MAY 10, 2012

For most of my readers, the main concern will be preparing your business for angel financing until the time is right for venture capital. There's no sense going after venture capital if the time isn't right, or if it's not needed to reach your vision.

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VC Adventure

MARCH 17, 2016

I’ve always felt that a robust angel financing market was important to startup ecosystems and the data on the next two charts really brings that home. I suspect that’s a bit of what we’re seeing here.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 25, 2011

Vendor financing – When you start to win business – let’s say as an implementation arm for tech / business products or as an ad sales team for large tech / media businesses – you can often get financed in a small way by your vendors who are all to happy to have a bigger ecosystem of implementation houses.

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Gust

OCTOBER 26, 2011

In most VC and angel financing transactions, there are three pieces to this puzzle: (1) the Company requires investors to make certain representations in the purchase agreement (e.g.,

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Startup Company Lawyer

MARCH 14, 2010

In a typical venture financing, there is a voting agreement that governs how specific board seats will be filled. In angel financings, I typically eliminate the voting agreement anyway and simply have a closing condition that the board consist of certain persons. Voting agreement.

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Campus Entrepreneurship

MAY 24, 2010

Mitra points out that the free rent may have been worth up to $20,000 in angel financing? Muzzo and Chalmers’ vision was that Archipelago would evolve into a shared library of academic content. So entrepreneurs, family and friends, be creative in how you can support the growing firm in front of you.

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Professor VC

APRIL 11, 2008

I started working with the founders of iControl at the concept stage, prior to the first $100K of angel financing. We ended up raising $15.5M, led by John Doerr of Kleiner Perkins. This got me thinking about my role in helping companies grow up.

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Altgate

AUGUST 20, 2010

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Campus Entrepreneurship

OCTOBER 19, 2010

The company is about to close a $500,000 – $700,000 round of angel financing. The startup worked out of office space in Boston’s Chinatown neighborhood before moving to MassChallenge for the accelerator and business plan competition phase this summer.

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Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 14, 2009

I recently wrote a post on angel financing covering the topic of convertible notes but I realized I was thinking about the issue more from investor perspective and a very narrow topic of how to price the round. This post is for those who want to raise angel money. I’ll make my next posting shorter.

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Professor VC

JUNE 20, 2011

Staged financing gives investors options in deciding whether and when to invest more and gives entrepreneurs options in how much to raise and when to think about exiting. While bootstrapping, there are multiple options from doing as a side project, changing the business, raising angel or venture, etc.

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thestartuplawyer.com

FEBRUARY 24, 2010

Contact The Startup Lawyer: Home Page About Contact FAQs Glossary Ryan Roberts Law: Home Page Social Networks: Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Flickr Delicious Digg Last.FM He obviously never launched a startup and got shafted by a co-founder.

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Life Beyond Code

SEPTEMBER 27, 2011

He has veered away from angel financing, and has decided to bootstrap with customer money, and preserve equity ownership, foregoing any immediate dilution related to financing. Dan Stewart, President at Happy Grasshopper, has successfully generated a nice revenue stream, and is negotiating large enterprise deals.

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techcrunch.com

SEPTEMBER 2, 2012

” Ressi also says that the percentage of companies with convertible debt that successfully raise Series A funding is shrinking, due to an explosion in new angel financings and just moderate growth in venture funding.

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steveblank.com

JULY 8, 2011

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