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Find an Angel Investor, Without Going Through Hell

Startup Professionals Musings

With today’s access to the Internet, and Google searches, it really isn’t that hard. This is perhaps the most reliable source of information on angel investor groups across the world, and the software is used by most of the other angel organizations mentioned below for deal flow. New England Investment Network.

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How to Scale a Venture Capital (or Private Equity) Fund

David Teten

Managers of VC funds typically want to grow their business aggressively, just like the founders we back. – Create a franchise and license access to it , e.g., the Draper Venture Network. My Partners at HOF Capital are younger than I am, which means that we have a half-century horizon for the franchise we are building. .

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Flocks of Angels, and All You Need is One

Startup Professionals Musings

With today’s access to the Internet, and Google searches, it really isn’t that hard. It boasts 448 member-managed groups and VCs, 15,414 investors, and 2,400 new company applications a month. New England Investment Network. One of the most common questions I get is “How do I find angel investors?” Keiretsu Forum.

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Tale of Two Valleys: LA and the Bay Area from an Investor’s Perspective

Mucker Lab

After stints as a technology investment banker, a dot-com entrepreneur, and a product manager in Silicon Valley, I moved to Los Angeles in 2006. Certainly it is a negative to not have acquired the basic skills of product management. The top tier funds see almost all of the best deals. Ability” vs. “Knowledge”.

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How Private Equity and Venture Capital Investors Are Eating Their Own Dogfood

David Teten

A major angel group used Influitive , an advocate management tool, to track, activate and motivate their members. Meyler Capital is taking the analytical rigor of modern internet marketing and applying it to fund marketing. Meyler Capital is taking the analytical rigor of modern internet marketing and applying it to fund marketing.

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The Summer Solstice And Seed Stage Squeeze

Haystack

They’ve all accepted that this is a new world of capital abundance and that the pistons driving the global economy are technology and network effects. On this dimension, most seed funds can’t even compete on network, brand, or the cost of capital. You lose way more than you win. You wait the longest for liquidity.

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Can You Trust Any vc's Under 40?

Steve Blank

To do this they have to accomplish five things; 1) get deal flow – via networking and legwork, they identify likely industries, companies and teams with the potential for rapid growth (less than 10 years), 2) evaluate those companies and teams on the basis of technology, market opportunity, and team.