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Tips to Find the Right Angel Investor

Apr

6

2012

There are roughly 265,000 active individual angel investors . If you want to go the route of tapping an angel network — a group made up of up to 150 individual investors who pool their finances and share the due diligence work — there are more than 300 of those. In short, there are lots to ...
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Angel Groups · Angels · Finding Angels · Type of Investors

Washington Post — Discussion with John May, Angel Investor

Sep

25

2008

Welcome to The Download Live. I’m your host, Shannon Henry. Today’s guest is John May, an expert in “angel” investing. May is the executive director of the Private Investors Network and co-manager of The Dinner Club and the eMedia Club, all locally-based networks of individual angel investors. The groups meet regularly, hear from technology companies ...
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Type of Investors

financing food chain

The Real VCs Of Silicon Valley – Forbes.com

Sep

25

2008

Muhammad Yunus and his Grameen Bank won a Nobel Peace Prize for their development of microlending. For Silicon Valley’s entrepreneurial culture to thrive, we need to create a sort of microequity program for start-ups. Originally, of course, this is what venture capitalism was about. In recent years, venture capitalists have amassed huge war chests, raising ...
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Type of Investors

financing food chain

Should I Consider A Strategic Investor As A Source of Capital?

Sep

25

2008

Deciding what type of investor to seek for your growing company is a critical decision. Once you are past the initial start-up phase, equity capital can be sought from venture capitalists, angel investors or strategic investors. This is the first of two articles which provide a brief overview of the differences among a venture capitalist, ...
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Type of Investors

strategic investor

Seed money – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Sep

17

2008

Seed money is typically used to pay for such preliminary operations as market research and product development. Investors are often the business founders themselves, using savings, mortgage money, or funds borrowed from family and friends. They may also be outside angel investors, venture capitalists or accredited investors who are acquainted in some way with the ...
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Type of Investors

angels · f & f · vcs

VatorNews – The anatomy of angel networks

Sep

4

2008

There are four main sources of funding including: * Angels like relatives, friends, colleagues, customers, partners, or vendors. * Angel networks like North Bay Angels, Sand Hill Angels, Pasadena Angels, etc. The focus of this article is on angel networks. * Funds like venture capital firms and pension funds. * Markets like NYSE, NASDAQ, TSE, ...
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Type of Investors

angel groups · fundraising

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