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How To Test The Startup Lifestyle Before You Commit

Startup Professionals Musings

Most Angel groups and VCs advertise the startups they have recently funded, with pointers to startup websites, sometimes including open positions. Kick your networking up a notch. Every geographic area has entrepreneur networking activities, like startup weekends and tech meetups. How much money has been invested so far?

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5 Ways To Safely Sample The Entrepreneur Lifestyle

Startup Professionals Musings

Most Angel groups and VCs advertise the startups they have recently funded, with pointers to startup websites, sometimes including open positions. Kick your networking up a notch. Every geographic area has entrepreneur networking activities, such as startup weekends and tech meetups. Who gets stock options, and how many?

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Starting Startups - Startups and angels: Along the way to success

Tim Keane

  Some angel groups charge you money to pitch your idea to them.    One of the dangers of taking investment from individual angels, rather than through an angel group or investment firm, is that they have less reputation to protect.    Good angel groups, too. 

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ProfessorVC: What does it take to be an Angel Investor?

Professor VC

However, that is not always the case as there is no qualification to set out your shingle as an angel investor or form an angel group. I often wonder if saying you are an angel investor is the 21st century version of being a consultant in the early 1990s after the corporate layoffs, a euphemism for someone without a real job.

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ProfessorVC: How Much Diligence is Due.

Professor VC

It turns out the statistics related to returns were from an oft cited study on returns to investors in angel groups sponsored by the Angel Capital Association with research by Robert Wiltbank at Willamette University. Don't Stop Believin' Is There Any Truth in "The Social Network"? ▼ January. (1).

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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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ProfessorVC: Angie's List or AngelList?

Professor VC

There are several efforts being made to make this process better and will mention a couple below: Angel Capital Association Collaboration Committee - I was a charter member of the this group and the goal is to facilitate syndication among the angel groups via education and tools such as Angelsoft. Steve Bennet.