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8 Reasons All Angel Investor Money May Not Be Equal

A few angel investors have slipped or fallen from their lofty perch, so entrepreneurs must take great care to validate the character and reputation of every prospective investor. The entrepreneur’s tendency to be in a huge hurry to obtain the funding can end up being disastrous, and play into the hands of these less scrupulous […]
Martin Zwilling
Martin Zwilling , Founder and CEO , Startup Professionals
20 May 2013
Test Your Business Model Against These 10 Elements

6 Strategies for Transforming Ideas Into Results

Successful startups are all about turning ideas into action quickly and efficiently. These actions must be the hard part, since entrepreneurs always seem to come to me with ideas, and ask me for help on the actions. That has always seemed strange to me, since the magic is supposed to be in the ideas, and […]
Martin Zwilling
Martin Zwilling , Founder and CEO , Startup Professionals
13 May 2013
Valuation. You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means.

Angel Group Syndication of Series A Rounds

US angel investors have been a robust source of seed stage capital for years.  More recently, we have experienced significant growth in the number of funded seed stage deals, due to the emergence of accelerators, super angels and new seed stage funds.  Unfortunately, we are now suffering a Series A startup funding crunch, that is, a […]
Bill Payne
Bill Payne , Angel Investor , Frontier Angel Fund
8 May 2013
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If They Ask You to Judge a Business Plan Competition, Say Yes

I’ve had the pleasure of judging several dozen real business pitches in the past six weeks. Some were pitches for angel investment at the Willamette Angel Conference, an angel group in Oregon. More to the point, others were for the University of Oregon New Venture Competition, the Rice University Business Plan Competition, and the University of Texas’ Venture Labs […]
Tim Berry
Tim Berry , Founder , Startup Professionals
7 May 2013
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Is Your Startup Moving Fast Enough to Stay Ahead?

In today’s business startup environment, if you don’t move fast, you get run over. Without a sense of urgency, people and businesses just can’t move fast enough. Speed is the driver because customers have a zero tolerance for waiting, and there are always competitors gaining on you. John P. Kotter, in “A Sense of Urgency,” […]
Martin Zwilling
Martin Zwilling , Founder and CEO , Startup Professionals
6 May 2013
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