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Do You Have What it Takes to Attract Investors?

I’ve noticed that some entrepreneurs seem to have no trouble attracting investors, while others with a great business plan struggle with it. The reality is that angel investors are humans, and personal traits often make or break the relationship, even before the investment is considered. On the top line, angel investors look to invest in […]

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Martin Zwilling , Founder and CEO , Startup Professionals

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The Right Way to Not Pay Yourself

Today I received an email asking me to clarify what I wrote last month in Why sweat equity often stinks. The person quoted the sentence in italics below and asked “what does that mean, exactly?” I’m including the whole point because the context helps: Founders work for less than fair value and record the difference between […]

Tim Berry , Founder , Palo Alto Software

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7 Entrepreneur Attributes Imply Execution Ability

After the idea, it’s all about execution. In fact, it’s not clear that even the idea is all that important. Most investors tell me that an A entrepreneur with a B idea is much more fundable than a B entrepreneur with an A idea. It’s great to be a visionary, inventor, thinker, or a dreamer, […]

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Martin Zwilling , Founder , Startup Professionals

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US Angel Groups vs. European Business Angel Networks (BANs)

There seems to be a subtle but significant operational difference between many European BANs and US angel networks. This is an attempt to describe those differences. In general, BANs seem to have two primary focuses: (1) Soliciting a large mailing list of potential angel investor members (and others, such as service providers) and organizing pitching […]

Bill Payne , Angel Investor , Frontier Angel Fund

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How to Set a Growth Culture in Your Startup Early

One of the big advantages of being an entrepreneur and starting your company from scratch is that you get to set the culture, which is much easier than changing the culture of an existing business. The challenge is how to do it, and how to do it right. Why not learn what you can from […]

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Martin Zwilling , Founder and CEO , Startup Professionals

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