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Startup Professionals Musings
JUNE 28, 2021
The many crowd funding platforms on the Internet, led still by Kickstarter and IndieGoGo , were expected by many to put regular people in charge of funding new opportunities, and kill the need for angel groups. There is a rarified brand of successful investors who can show average IRRs of 25 percent or greater over the years.
Startup Professionals Musings
MAY 9, 2014
New crowd funding platforms on the Internet, like Kickstarter and IndieGoGo , as well as the Jobs Act of 2012 , are expected by many to ramp up regular people’s ability to fund new opportunities and kill the need for angel groups. billion collected in 2012. If you subscribe to truths one to five, startup investing can be lucrative.
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Startup Professionals Musings
DECEMBER 16, 2017
The many crowd funding platforms on the Internet, led still by Kickstarter and IndieGoGo , and the latest stages of the Jobs Act , were expected by many to put regular people in charge of funding new opportunities, and kill the need for angel groups. Rose, according to his latest book, “ Angel Investing.”
Startup Professionals Musings
JUNE 5, 2015
New crowd funding platforms on the Internet, like Kickstarter and IndieGoGo , as well as the Jobs Act of 2012 , are expected by many to ramp up regular people’s ability to fund new opportunities and kill the need for angel groups. Rose, according to his recent book, “ Angel Investing.” billion collected in 2014.
Startup Professionals Musings
MAY 9, 2011
David: I’m also a serial entrepreneur who has founded half a dozen companies, including Angelsoft, which provides the underlying Internet infrastructure for most of the world’s organized angel investing ecosystem. My first Internet venture in the early 1990s took about $20 million in venture capital to get to our product launch.
Professor VC
JANUARY 17, 2008
If my math is correct, this is approximately a 31% IRR, which has to beat individual angel investments on aggregate and venture capital returns over the period of the study (1990-2007). He then went on to say that this type of financing was good for the entrepreneur (vs taking VC money) because they got to keep more of the company.
Steve Blank
MARCH 31, 2014
Just look at the disruptive challenges that businesses face today– globalization, China as a manufacturer, China as a consumer, the Internet, and a steady stream of new startups. But the world you lead will be much different from the one your professors knew or your predecessors managed.
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