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Valuation. You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means.

Angel Investors Spotlight: An Inside Look at Hudson Valley Startup Fund’s Investment Process & Advice for Founders

Hudson Valley Startup Fund brings together a network of the region’s successful business and community leaders to give back, supporting the launch of the next Hudson Valley visionaries. We sat down with fund managers Chad Gomes, Johnny LeHane and Paul Hakim as they shared insights into their investment process, what they look for in both group […]
Hillary Keller
Hillary Keller , Senior Marketing Manager , GUST INC.
8 Feb 2016
Valuation. You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means.

Valuation Part I: Peeling the Onion, or How Top Investors Value the Startups They Invest In

Update 2017: To help you understand how your startup will look to investors according to this methodology, we’ve created a fundraising feedback tool that will give you investor-level insight into your startup’s performance. In just about 15 minutes, it will tell you how much money your startup is likely to raise, where you can find that capital, and what […]
Keyvan Firouzi
Keyvan Firouzi , CFA, DIRECTOR , VALUATION SERVICES
25 Jan 2016
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How to Give Women the Wings of an Angel

Canada has not tapped its female angel investor potential – yet. The female angel investor conversation has been discussed inside and out. From TechCrunch, BetaKit to the Financial Post, there have been more than a few arguments made about the lack of female representation in Canada’s early-stage investment community and the benefits of tapping into this financial resource. For […]
Romain Debordeaux
Jess Joss , Executive Director , York Angel Investors
7 Dec 2015
Startup Strategies: The Strategic and Financial Significance of Intellectual Property

Starting a Startup as CTO / Head of Product

After less than a year, Glassbreakers is now a team of 10, we have thousands of active users on our free product, we’ve expanded into enterprises with paying customers and raised over a million in seed funding. After a few of my Glassbreaker matches inquired, I started to reflect on what it’s like to build a startup […]
Romain Debordeaux
Lauren Mosenthal , Co-Founder and CTO , GlassBreakers
30 Nov 2015
What are accounting and bookkeeping?

Ask A Founder: Startup Lessons Learned from Squareknot’s Jason Rappaport

Jason Rappaport, Founder and CEO of Squareknot, has raised $1.3 million to date — his first $500,000 round came after a single email, pitch, and lunch. We sat down with Jason as he shared what his fundraising journey was like, the startup lessons he learned, and his advice to fellow founders. Here is what he had […]
Hillary Keller
Hillary Keller , Senior Marketing Manager , GUST INC.
9 Nov 2015
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