Angel

What’s The Start Up Company Of The Year?

May 12, 2011
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Every year the Alliance of Angels picks a start up company of the year.  This company is usually in the technology industry and represents what they like in start up companies. Alliance of Angels chooses LiquidPlanner as startup Company of the Year by John Cook Over the past seven years, The Alliance of Angels has [...]

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Bay Area Angels Are Back

May 11, 2011
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A group of angel investors based out of the Bay Area have started up their old gig.  They used to meet in Marin to give clients 15 minutes to pitch their new projects.  They have started this process again because of all of the success in the technology and internet businesses. After 10-year hiatus, angel [...]

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Can You Get A Job On Your Phone?

May 4, 2011
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Startup company Gigwalk, has received seed money.  Gigwalk allows workers to find job opportunities through an application on their phone. Gigwalk helps businesses recruit a mobile workforce By: Anthony Ha A startup called Gigwalk is launching a service today to help businesses manage and recruit workers for basic jobs that can be accomplished on their [...]

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Should VC’s Focus On Angel Investing?

April 26, 2011
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Some experts feel that many VC’s are focusing on existing companies and they are overlooking many strong startups that need angel money. How the venture industry is pivoting By: Bambi Francisco Roizen At AngelPad’s recent Demo Day, I caught up with Eghosa Omoigui, former-Intel-Capital-VC-turned-angel investor, who’s in the process of closing a $11 million fund. [...]

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Are There Enough Angel Investors?

April 23, 2011
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Some people feel that there are not enough angel investors.  Now more then ever there are great opportunities for these angel investors, because of the lack of capital available. Even angel investors are fearing to tread They’re risk-takers, putting thousands of their own dollars into unproved ideas for the thrill of turning startups into successful [...]

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Are Women The Future Of Business?

April 19, 2011
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Golden Seeds is a network of Angel Investors that solely invests in companies run by women.  Their network has grown significantly and has a positive outlook for the future. Wall Street Women of Golden Seeds Give Cash to Female CEOs By Alexis Leondis Sarah Endline asked Golden Seeds, a group of mostly women angel investors, [...]

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Is Silicon Valley Back?

April 19, 2011
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For many start up companies they have a lineup of investors competing to place their funds in these companies.  This reminds some investors of the late 90′s. In Silicon Valley, Investors Are Jockeying Like It’s 1999 By MONICA LANGLEY MENLO PARK, Calif.—Travis Kalanick is the founder of a start-up that lets people order up a [...]

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What Are Angels Looking For?

April 14, 2011
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There are certain segments of business that angel investors will not usually fund.  These may be businesses to stay away from. If You Need Angel Investors, Avoid These Startups By: Martin Zwilling We are talking about angel investors here, meaning people who invest their own money in early-stage startups for a share of the equity. [...]

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Lorem Ipsum

February 10, 2011
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Lorem Ipsum is simply dummy text of the printing and typesetting industry. Lorem Ipsum has been the industry’s standard dummy text ever since the 1500s, when an unknown printer took a galley of type and scrambled it to make a type specimen book. It has survived not only five centuries, but …

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