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Studies Find Angels Significantly Impact Success Of Funded Companies – Forbes

Jun

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) ...

Top 12 lies angels tell

May

2012

Angel investors are among the leading sources of funding for many technology firms. Knowing how these investors think and evaluate a possible investment is therefore vital for any tech start up seeking funding. With a nod to Garage Venture’s Guy Kawasaki and his Top 10 Lies of Venture Capitalists, I offer my Top 12 Lies Angels Tell. ...

Raising Angel Money — How Angels, Entrepreneurs, and VCs Think of Each Other

May

2012

This post is part of a series of posts called “Pitching a VC” that explains how to get access to VC’s, what to say when you get there and what will happen afterward. A friend of mine who lives in Silicon Valley called me lastt week to talk about his new company. He’s been a ...

Angel No More: Why One of Silicon Valley’s Savviest Investors Has Shut His Wallet

May

2012

Kevin Hartz is sitting this one out. Sure, Hartz is busy with his day-job as CEO of online ticketing startup Eventbrite, but it’s not a time management thing that keeps him from his usual angel-investing habit. It’s more a money management thing. Hartz doesn’t like to invest his when there is so much sloshing around ...

Angel vs. VC: Which Investor Is Best for Your Startup?

May

2012

Getting financing for your startup is rarely easy, but if you approach the wrong investor, you can make it even harder than it has to be. “How can there be a ‘wrong investor’?” you might be thinking. “Don’t I just go with whoever is willing to give me the money?” It’s not quite that simple. ...

The Most Influential Angel Investors On AngelList

May

2012

AngelList has become a popular way for new startups to raise seed funding. In some ways related to the opening up of investing via the JOBS Act, AngelList is designed to level the playing field for entrepreneurs seeking funding. The website enables any startup to raise funding by pitching to angel investors or requesting meetings, all ...

Tips to Find the Right Angel Investor

Apr

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 ...

Angel Investing: Who are Angels & Angel Groups?

Aug

2011

Editor’s Note: This guest post is a three-part series on angel investing. Part I introduces angels and angel groups, Part II focuses on the due diligence process and the post-investment relationship, and Part III breaks down angel investing for entrepreneurs. Angel investors, or angels, are usually wealthy individuals and “accredited investors” who provide capital for ...

How to find angel investors revisited | Texas Startup Blog

May

2009

Lots of people ask me, “How do I find angel investors?” I don’t have a great answer, but perhaps I can help some of you think about who angels are and as a result perhaps you will be able to find them more easily. To start, I think it is important to classify angels in ...

Ron Conway: More Reasons To Go All Angel – GigaOM

Sep

2008

Lately we’ve been discussing the many reasons why taking smaller, angel-sized investments instead of larger venture capital stakes often makes more sense for startups in a wobbly, exit-bereft market like the current one. Today, Ron Conway, the well-known founder of the Silicon Valley-based Angel Investors LP fund, now associated with Baseline Ventures, weighs in with ...