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Chapter 5: Connecting with Angel Investors
After you have qualified your angel investor leads and prioritized those with the highest likelihood of investing, it’s time to reach out to them. This is usually the part where founders get most...
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Chapter 6: Angel Fundraising Logistics
Okay, now you know how to identify angel investors, vet, prioritize, and meet with them. There are a lot of questions about logistics that you might still have, such as how to take in the investment,...
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Chapter 7: Most Important Lessons about Getting Angel Investment
Having spoken with hundreds of founders winning and failing to win angel investment, there are a couple of clear trends that come up repeatedly. Many founders want to skip right to blasting countless...
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TAM, SAM, SOM: Why No One Can Agree What They Mean
Why can’t someone explain, in simple terms, what TAM, SAM, and SOM mean? That’s because no one can agree what they actually mean! But don’t worry, we’ll try our best to demystify these terms! In this...
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Top Venture Capital Funds Bias Strongly Towards Founders with Pedigree
As early-stage investors, we’ve been hearing for years an undeniably loud chorus of founders lamenting that many venture capital funds, particularly top-tier ones, won’t even take a meeting with them...
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Top Women Angel Investors According to Data
Who are the top women angel investors? We’ve got a list of top female angel investors in the U.S. ranked by the success rate of their portfolios and investment rate. In this article, we look at the...
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How to Find Angel Investors – Full 34-Page Guide
This is the full 34-page guide on how and where to find, reach out to, and pitch angel investors. This epic guide is meant to help any founder find angel investors for their startup, even if you don’t...
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You Don’t Need a Co-Founder for Your Startup
The advice that single startup founders need co-founders to be successful is simply wrong. Before you rush into partnering with a co-founder, consider what the data says, potential downsides, and...
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What Is Product-Market Fit? A Normal Person’s Definition with Simple Examples
Product-market fit, or product/market fit, is often mischaracterized and misunderstood even by “experts.” Contrary to popular belief, product/market fit is not a well-defined state that a product or...
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Raising Venture Capital in 2024: Targeting the Right Investors
Despite an uptick in venture capital investments in Q1 of 2024, the fundraising climate continues to be challenging as the great reset continues from the hysteria that peaked in 2021. As deals...
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Top Angel Investors for Women and Founders of Color
Woman and multicultural founders are often judged with exceeding scrutiny. That’s why it’s important to find angel investors with a proven history of investing in diverse founder teams, such as those...
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As the founder of OK2StandUp, Dr. Eunice Yang has made it her mission to keep seniors safe. Standing at 5’4”, Dr. Eunice Yang represents the living embodiment of ‘big things come in small packages.’...
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How Bolder Money Co-Founder Uses Entrepreneurship as a Force for Good
Siddharth Singh, 39, has spent much of his life analyzing how to solve big problems. He prefers to look at the overall picture and how to do the most good within those parameters. Singh, who...
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From Butcher to Apple Engineer: How WEDEVX’s Co-Founder Achieved the American...
Askar Musakunov and Adina Tilek, his wife and co-founder, prefer a nomadic lifestyle. They don’t think twice about switching cities or disappearing to Qatar for 6 months. For them, slowing down to...
View ArticleJowanza Joseph: It’s My Life’s Mission to Prove All My Critics Wrong
Growing up, Jowanza Joseph, 36, didn’t have the most stable home life. His parents immigrated from Saint Kitts to the United States before separating. He ended up living with his mother and three...
View ArticlePaul Gassée is Helping Founders Leave Their Dent in the Universe
Paul Gassée, 43, has spent most of his career in the early stage startup ecosystem with the “battle scars to prove it.” Paul founded two startups, ran sales at a recruiting software company, and spent...
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For decades, there’s been a very cozy relationship between state and local governments and Big Tech across the country. When it comes to tech giants relocating, monetary incentives, such as tax breaks...
View ArticleSydney Thomas: Leaving a Lasting Legacy
Since she was a child, Sydney Thomas, the founding general partner of Symphonic Capital, had an innate curiosity about what her legacy will be. The San Diego native became obsessed with building a...
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