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Shark Tank (Part 1): 5 Things the Show Gets Wrong
[Guest post by Brant Bukowsky, the founder of GrowthPartner.com -- a firm that provides angel investment and online marketing expertise to emerging companies. A serial entrepreneur, Bukowsky and his team have built three Inc. 500 companies in the last five years. He blogs at Angel Investment Journal.]
This is the first in a two-part series.
ABC’s reality [...]
Do Good – Take a Look at Technology Parks Startups
Some angel investors are in it solely for the money; others are motivated to give back to the community. If you’re the type that wants to do good to the society, take a close look at research park startup companies in your region — they just might be the treasures you’ve been dying to add [...]
Investing in Incubator Companies: The How and The Why
He’s brought incubation advisement to Russia.
He’s helped Washington University rank first nationally in the number of licensed technologies.
He’s greased the wheels for tech collaborations and business incubation development throughout the state of Indiana.
And he’s acted on behalf of the National Business Incubation Association (NBIA) and presented an intensive training program to incubation professionals in China [...]
Martin Zwilling of Startup Professionals: Angel Investing ABC
When it comes to startup advice for tech entrepreneurs, twitterati StartupPro (a.k.a. Martin Zwilling) will probably pop up your mind.
Over the past 30 years, Zwilling has led technical business transformations, held a wide range of tech management roles, as well as done due diligence and funding analysis for investors. Though he does little investing, Zwilling [...]
Be a Shark or an Angel, Your Choice
In a recent rant by Jason Calacanis, he raged about angel groups that charge entrepreneurs a fee up to US$6,000 for the opportunity to pitch.
The main argument for a shark-fee-based pitching system is to cover costs and weed out frivolous entrepreneurs. The rationale is that if an entrepreneur is serious enough to pay thousands of [...]
Top 3 Finalists for The Perfect Pitch Competition with Richard Branson
If you’ve been on Twitter, or if you’ve been following Venture Hype on Twitter, you should’ve heard about The Perfect Pitch Competition with Sir Richard Branson. We’d been tweeting frantically about the competition and so did you. More than 1,000 entrepreneurs from all 50 states, plus an additional 8 countries, entered the contest for an [...]
InNOVAcorp: An Exceptional Incubator and How It Is Run
If you’re an active angel investor who frequently brings more than just money to the table, founding a business incubator to add more structure in mentoring and growing startup ventures could be your thing. Why? According to National Business Incubation Association (NBIA), incubators might reduce the risk of small business failures, which means you’d have [...]
Give Entrepreneurs 5 Minutes
Angels Rob Hayes of First Round capital, Jeff Clavier, and early Googler-turned-angel Aydin Senkut recently shared their views on the state of angel investing. These angels back consumer Internet companies, with recent activity in personalized medicine and cloud-based ideas. Hayes also highlighted the key to ultimate investment success is the character and history of the [...]
Paul Silva of Angel Catalyst: “Angel groups are like herds of cats.”
According to Kauffman Foundation, angel investors participating in organized angel groups achieved an average of 27% annual return — the highest return among long-term equity investments, comparing favorably to early-seed VC investing (21.2%, Thomson Venture Economics), later-stage VC investing (14.4%, Thomson Venture Economics) and the stock market (8.22%, S&P Index).
Investing with a group can be [...]
The Perfect Pitch 2009 Competition Deadline Extended
Entrepreneurs might have a great idea but can’t always get it in front of the right people with the right money. On the other side of the equation, angel investors like you long to hear good pitches of great ideas that fit within your narrow scope or specialty.
PerfectBusiness.com (which bills itself as “the path to [...]
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