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Studies Find Angels Significantly Impact Success Of Funded Companies – Forbes

Jun

1

2015

. . . . .Two studies show real evidence that startups backed by strong angels really do better than their counterparts that fail to get such funding. The studies by Harvard Business School professors William Kerr and Josh Lerner and MIT Sloan School of Management professor Antoinette Schoar (along with Stanislav Sokolinsky and Karen Wilson) ...
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Angel Groups · Angel Investing Statistics · Angels · Exit Strategy

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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Seed Capital From Angel Investors: David Rose, Founder and CEO of Gust / Angelsoft

Oct

3

2011

Today, I’m talking with David Rose, who founded AngelSoft, now , in 2004. Gust provides a platform where angel investors and entrepreneurs can connect and discuss ventures. Originally created with angel investors’ needs in mind, Gust now has more than 750 investment organizations worldwide using its platform to manage deal flow and other day-to-day tasks. ...
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The Angel Funding Process

Sep

22

2008

Angel funding for growing companies is a mysterious process to most entrepreneurs. Somewhere between hitting up your rich uncle and begging for a loan at the bank, a professional angel group can provide $250,000 to $1.5m in equity funds to accelerate growth and make it attractive to later stage investors.
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Angel Investing Is a Team Sport – Entrepreneurship.org

Sep

22

2008

Until the mid 1990s, entrepreneurs seeking angel investors had to find investors one at a time or in small groups. Although some informal groups of investors had formed around the country, there were no groups that founders could approach for investments until the launch of Band of Angels in Silicon Valley later in the decade. ...
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These Angels Like to Work as a Team – New York Times

Sep

22

2008

YOU would think that if a quarter of a million angel investors were pouring $25.6 billion into fledgling companies, as they were last year, finding one to put money in your own venture would not be hard. Think again: wealthy investors, or angels, don’t advertise themselves.
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What to Expect From Angel Networks

Aug

26

2008

For today’s entrepreneurs, the different landscape provides opportunities that might not have existed in the past. While “angel” investors – exited entrepreneurs and experienced business people who have the TIME and MONEY to put into early-stage companies – have always been a part of the entrepreneurial scene, they are now breaking down into sub-categories. Some, ...
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