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Successful Startup Founders Invest In Their Own Ventures 0742d64fd6a698c3cfa409e71c3cc4e5620a7e7299f434f1380bb4cde9bc488a (1)

Follow-on Funding: A Dilemma for Angel Investors

In 2007, Professor Rob Wiltbank reported in Returns to Angel Investors in Groups that angel investors made follow-on investment in about 30% of their invested companies. It was surprising for me to learn that follow-on investments correlated with lower returns, that is, angels that made follow-on angel investments saw returns of 1.4X their investment, while those that did […]
Bill Payne
Bill Payne , Angel Investor , Frontier Angel Fund
31 Jan 2012
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8 Ways to Surf the Entrepreneur Information Wave

Being an entrepreneur these days requires an understanding of a thousand topics, many of which don’t even exist today in traditional learning vehicles, like schools and textbooks. The Internet and its information wave have changed everything – it’s the problem with constant change, and it’s the solution, if you use it to navigate quickly and […]
Martin Zwilling
Martin Zwilling , Founder and CEO , Startup Professionals
30 Jan 2012
Trade Signal Fundraising Strategy

Movies, not Snapshots

Stopping by the First Growth Venture Network session today, I saw the usual great collection of startups and industry experts. It’s about the best forum for practical advice, mentoring, and support that an entrepreneur could hope to find.  As usual, there were lots of quotable quotes, but my favorite one today was from Jeff Bussgang, […]
Bob Rice
Bob Rice , MANAGING PARTNER , Tangent Capital
27 Jan 2012
Five Key Metrics You Need 2897bd925f8d3d54dc1b7ff249b491be390df00f154f4ff6f8957679883dd8c0

Average Round Size in Angel Deals

The Center for Venture Research at the University of New Hampshire has been publishing statistics on angel investing for decades.  Over the past several years, the numbers of US companies funded by angel investors has increased from about 50,000 per year to over 60,000 annually.  Mark Boslet of senior editor with Venture Capital Journal posted the following […]
Bill Payne
Bill Payne , Angel Investor , Frontier Angel Fund
26 Jan 2012
10 Early Mistakes Startup Founders Should Avoid D9aa1adbb0aeeeb61a9800d1df81c1460d99acecba203b7d0f9d21e61e965e1f

10 People That Will Strangle Your Company

Every organization, no matter how small, has one or more people who are quite simply obnoxious, and they drain energy from everyone and can strangle your company.  Sometimes they are also intellectually brilliant, or closely related to the boss, so there is no easy way out. In fact, they may even be the boss.  So […]
Martin Zwilling
Martin Zwilling , Founder and CEO , Startup Professionals
24 Jan 2012
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