This is going to be BIG.

MARCH 1, 2013

This week, I spoke to one of the longest running and most active angel groups in the country, the New York Angels. Luckily for all of us, including the New York Angels themselves, the ecosystem has bloomed. An angel belonging to a group could find more dealflow. 2) A Platform for Visibility.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 25, 2020

With the advent and growth of crowdfunding over the past few years, many entrepreneurs have predicted the demise of those demanding angel investment groups and venture capital organizations. I would summarize the qualms and feedback from professional investors as the following: Crowdfunding platform costs trickle down to angel groups.

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Equity Angel Groups Accredited Investor Due Diligence 411

Tim Keane

DECEMBER 14, 2009

  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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View from Seed

AUGUST 26, 2015

Run in packs and learn from the group (but keep an independent mind). There are a lot of options to expand your deal sourcing, like AngelList, syndicates, angel groups, etc. This is sometimes really tough for former operators. Find people who you think are great and don’t be worried about following their signal.

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View from Seed

AUGUST 26, 2015

Run in packs and learn from the group (but keep an independent mind). There are a lot of options to expand your deal sourcing, like AngelList, syndicates, angel groups, etc. This is sometimes really tough for former operators. Find people who you think are great and don’t be worried about following their signal.

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Technical Review Angel Investor Software Review Silicon Valley 120

Up and Running

JULY 2, 2014

We shared all of this with our attorney before she helped us write our Operating Agreement (OA), so we assumed we were in good hands. We even won $65,000 from an angel investor pitch competition in the form of a convertible note. The investor said, “We can’t invest in you unless this clause is removed from your operating agreement.”.

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Technical Review Angel Investor Due Diligence Dilution 118

Berkonomics

DECEMBER 17, 2020

Angel groups invest from $250,000 to $1,000,000 or more in qualified investments. Some can supply more when syndicating with other such groups. How many angel groups are there? All angel groups will want to see the founders in person or by Zoom at sometime early in the process. Accelerators.

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VC Adventure

FEBRUARY 7, 2019

Most cities now have various local tech meetups, pitch competitions, angel groups, etc. Many firms now have operational groups that provide services to their portfolio companies. In some cities there are organized angel groups that make use of part-time help to make investment decisions.

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Venture Capital Seed Stage Angel Groups Portfolio 103

David Teten

FEBRUARY 3, 2014

Similarly, my research on venture capital portfolio operations found that Portfolio Operator VCs such as Andreesen Horowitz , First Round Capital , ff Venture Capital , and Google Ventures are hiring unusually large teams and structuring them in traditional pyramids. Angel groups using Gust. Acquirer/ Investor.

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Gust

JUNE 28, 2014

While usually this works out well for everyone, I’ve seen cases where a couple of small investors can aggravate the CEO by constantly calling with questions, intruding with operating advice and generally being a pain in the neck.

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This is going to be BIG.

NOVEMBER 1, 2016

Pulling them apart and shedding light on them is an extremely delicate operation for a white male investor, and probably not a good idea, but I'm going to go ahead with it anyway. So if you're a super early stage with just a prototype, you might not think that a VC fund is the right fit for you--so you wind up at an angel group.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 6, 2023

billion by 2030, exceeding the amounts contributed by either angel groups or VCs alone. According to more recent statistics , fewer than a third of all crowdfunding operations end up being successful, and the rest have to return anything they do collect. billion to USD 3.62 Early crowdfunding successes have been undeniable.

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Angel Groups Accredited Investor Due Diligence Equity 201

David Teten

DECEMBER 3, 2019

I walk through below how progressive investors are using technology and analytics throughout all of their operations. A major angel group uses Influitive , an advocate management tool, to track, activate and motivate their members. To learn more about this space, I suggest join an online community I co-founded, PEVCTech. .

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 11, 2012

Due diligence on an investor is where you validate the track record, operating style, and motivation of your new potential partner. Of course, you need to listen for biases, but local angel group leaders can quickly tell you who the bad angels and good angels are, and what kind of terms they typically demand.

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Due Diligence Entrepreneur Offshore Angel Groups 241

www.paulgraham.com

APRIL 28, 2010

Most startups operate close to themargin of failure, and the distraction of having to deal with clientscould be enough to put you over the edge. Infact, the more prominent the angel, the less likely they are tobelong to a group. Deal terms with angels vary a lot. There are no generally acceptedstandards.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 29, 2018

by either angel groups or VCs alone. Startups are not required to have a formal Board of Directors, and can’t afford to implement many of the financial and operational controls required of public companies. That exceeds the amounts contributed in the U.S. Yet crowdfunding is no panacea for hungry entrepreneurs and startups.

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Equity Due Diligence Angel Groups Liquidity Event 180

Growthink Blog

JUNE 28, 2010

Joining an Angel Group. Increasingly in recent years, there have sprung up angel investor networking groups around the country.

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Private Equity Technical Review Silicon Valley Los Angeles 63

Growthink Blog

JUNE 28, 2010

Joining an Angel Group. Increasingly in recent years, there have sprung up angel investor networking groups around the country.

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Private Equity Technical Review Silicon Valley Los Angeles 63

Up and Running

JUNE 25, 2014

But the other thing I would encourage people to do, it’s becoming more and more prevalent in communities across the United States is that people are forming angel groups and putting together LLC funds with a group of investors all together. Does it matter if you need it for an asset versus just operational to run the business?

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 3, 2010

Due diligence on an investor is where you validate the track record, operating style, and motivation of your new potential partner. Of course, you need to listen for biases, but local angel group leaders can quickly tell you who the bad angels and good angels are, and what kind of terms they typically demand.

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Due Diligence Offshore Angel Groups Matching 224

Gust

APRIL 23, 2014

When you realize that the platform operates in half a dozen languages and has investors or entrepreneurs in over 200 countries engaging in both local and cross-border investments, you can begin to see the outlines of the future of finance. Gust News angel groups businesses financial industry Gust innovations startups'

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David Teten

SEPTEMBER 23, 2017

In venture capital in particular, early-stage companies are often operating in frontier industries, where the rules are unpredictable and conventional analytic frameworks may be misleading. A major angel group used Influitive , an advocate management tool, to track, activate and motivate their members.

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Private Equity Venture Capital Equity Technical Review 60

Austin Startup

JUNE 27, 2017

These connections are likely best when firms are networked with other sources of capital vertically (angel groups, venture debt, private equity and investment bank relationships) and horizontally (in-market and out-of-market venture capital firms). He is a partner at Capital Factory and a board member of the Austin Technology Council.

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Venture Capital Austin Texas Private Equity 54

David Teten

JANUARY 21, 2021

According to a recent interview with Founding Partner Andrew Oved, Reformation invests in SaaS (vertical and application software) and consumer product businesses that have achieved $1M-$5M in annualized revenue, while operating capital efficiently. 20% initial ownership. One third of them are growing over 50% y-o-y.

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Equity Revenue Cofounder Colorado 78

David Teten

JUNE 12, 2014

In December 2010, Richard Kane, then-President, Harvard Business School Club of New York , asked me if I’d like to found an HBS alumni-affiliated angel group in NY. Since then, we have grown to be the 2nd largest angel group in NY, with 130 members (vs. about 150 for Golden Seeds in New York, the largest group).

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Up and Running

MAY 12, 2015

Ask an angel investor: Targeting a particular angel investor can be a good tactic, as they are often willing to evaluate your pitch. Tim advises checking out Gust, which lists regional and local angel groups. From there, you can reach out to an angel in your area. Operated by the U.S.

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Angel Investor Software Review Technical Cofounder Due Diligence 60

Austin Startup

JUNE 30, 2017

In some ways, the resources that top accelerators give founders have upped the ante on what “value add” from institutional investors really means , and has put some traditional VCs in the same category as prominent angels or well-coordinated angel groups: checks, perhaps with a few intros, but not much more.

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Curation Startup Cofounder Equity 48

Berkonomics

APRIL 3, 2014

Angel groups invest from $250,000 to $1,000,000 or more in qualified investments. Angel Capital Association (ACA) lists over four hundred member groups, located throughout the country. All angel groups will want to see the founders in person at sometime early in the process.

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Equity Finance Liquidity Event Angel Groups 92

David Teten

DECEMBER 12, 2017

We believe this way we can extrapolate insights for our particular business model (portfolio operator VC fund) previously missed out.”. Some early stage investors mine data from crowdfunding sites, angel group platforms, and product launch lists to identify investment opportunities.

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David Teten

MARCH 24, 2011

By the nature of angel networks, that will be challenging. will help to keep our virtual operation running smoothly. We think that effective use of our technology stack (Angelsoft, BasecampHQ, Dropbox, etc.)

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Up and Running

DECEMBER 11, 2013

Services are great for owner operators, but not a great opportunity for investors. I’ve seen this same phenomenon in the angel group. But a service delivered by humans, that requires adding payroll and fixed costs in proportion to sales increases, is not scalable. .

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Valuation Oregon Burn Rate Angel Groups 136

Gust

AUGUST 6, 2014

25 individual angel investors funding a startup on a convertible note. two angel groups investing money in Series Seed Preferred stock purchase. As such, this could cover many different things, such as: Your parents loaning you money to cover your expenses while you code your product. So what does usually happen?

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Term Sheet Lead Investor Preferred Stock Common Stock 170

David Teten

FEBRUARY 6, 2013

How to make the most out of angel group participation. How to collaborate effectively with other angel groups. We will also discuss the latest trends in angel investing and where the industry is headed next. For a preview of the discussion, see “ Introduction to Angel Investing ”. Robert Dahl.

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Private Equity North America Cofounder Angel Groups 114

Gust

DECEMBER 27, 2011

Due diligence on an investor is where you validate the track record, operating style, and motivation of your new potential partner. Of course, you need to listen for biases, but local angel group leaders can quickly tell you who the bad angels and good angels are, and what kind of terms they typically demand.

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Due Diligence Entrepreneur Offshore Angel Groups 119

Professor VC

JULY 7, 2015

During the set break (perhaps influenced by the large amount of second half smoke consumed), I thought about angel groups in relation to the lyrics above, particularly the "you analyze me, pretend to despise me" line. In theory, angel groups are great.

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YoungUpstarts

NOVEMBER 17, 2016

Equity crowdfunding is likely to work more effectively for startups that require single rounds of thousands and plan to operate as a growing concern, rather than those requiring multiple rounds of millions in startup capital with goals of being acquired or going public via IPO.

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Growthink Blog

SEPTEMBER 15, 2011

Latent angel investors are the best potential investors in a company since they have the funds to invest, but aren't bombarded with potential deals (unlike angel groups and venture capitalists who are constantly bombarded). So, who are latent angel investors?

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