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Attend this year’s Angel Capital Association Summit (Virtual or in Portland!)
(link https://events.angelcapitalassociation.org/2021summit) Clear your calendars – the Angel Capital Association is bringing the largest and most successful group of angels in the world together to...
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Why it costs $250,000 to learn how to be an Angel Investor
I’ve heard it said that it costs a quarter of a million dollars to learn to become a good angel investor and the number is shocking, but can make sense for people who decide to take their MBA “wisdom”...
View ArticleRevenue Based Investing: What is an “Ideal Candidate” Anyway?
Here’s a blog from our friends at Sage Growth Capital in Boise, Idaho. They have spent the last year and a half perfecting the still fairly novel idea of revenue based investing. Angel investors have...
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Why Discounts on Convertible Notes are for Losers!
There are a lot of misunderstandings about convertible notes and how they work, but one misunderstanding that I have not seen described well is the issue of the valuation cap vs. the discount and what...
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The New Normal – Startups Define Post Pandemic Life
Part One: The New Normal of Work Think back on your life before the Global Financial Crisis. It seemed ok, and then disaster hit. In the following few years, startups created new ways of living in a...
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Brad Feld: The Startup Community Way and Complex Systems
Brad Feld and Ian Hathaway describe the startup community as a “complex system” in their new book, The Startup Community Way, By this they mean that it is inherently unpredictable and needs to be...
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How to Network at a Virtual Conference
Like many of you, I attended my first virtual conference a few months ago and while the content was great, I missed the networking that I value so much from conferences. Now, I’m planning my second...
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A Message for Startup CEOs During Pandemic
If you are a startup CEO, or work for a startup – these are challenging times. The world as you know it is on hiatus, and uncertainty reigns. I would like to share some wise advice from my friend and...
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The Startup Exit Strategy Canvas
First of all, you shouldn’t create an exit strategy for an investor – it’s actually the first question you should answer for yourself if you’re thinking about a startup. The Exit Strategy –...
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How to Avoid Startup Due Diligence Groundhog Day
Pitching your startup to angel and VC investors can seem like groundhog day – doing the same thing over and over and over. Let’s do the math. The average angel writes a $25,000 check. You have to...
View ArticleImpact Investing’s Secret Weapon – the Donor Advised Fund
Impact investing has always been focused on creating positive social and/or environmental outcomes. At some points, Impact Investing has struggled to define itself as compared with philanthropy. Both...
View ArticleImpact Measurement from the Start
Measuring Impact has become a major challenge for impact investors. The main reason is that for all their good intents, organizations that develop impact metrics ultimately end up trying to fit a...
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Primary vs. Secondary Impact Investing
All impact investing can be divided into primary or secondary impact and impact investors should understand the difference. We define “primary impact” as impact that is caused by the company carrying...
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The New Aerospace Ecosystem
“New Space” is what we’re talking about. It’s not your granddaddy’s aerospace that was government controlled, cost billions of dollars and was top secret national imperative sort of stuff. Rockies...
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Three Fallacies About Convertible Notes
Convertible debt is commonly used in seed stage transactions, and for anything but friends and family, or a true 90 day or less bridge, I cannot understand why anyone would use these to fund a company,...
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Angel Investors Should Focus on IRR vs. ROI Multiples
In a panel on angel return data at the Angel Capital Association Summit recently the speaker went back and forth between data using ROI (multiples of the original investment) and IRR (internal rate of...
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How to Pick Winners in Times of Uncertainty
If you’ve read ANYTHING about cryptocurrencies and ICOs (Initial Coin/Token Offerings), you’ve read opinions from people who believe that the value of these coins will go up 100 times and others who...
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Can Women be Angel Investors?
Women make up the fastest growing community of angel investors and it’s changing the face of Angel Capital for the better. Angel groups like Rockies Venture Club have been beating national averages for...
View ArticleRVC Closes 15 Deals in 2017
RVC Continues Its Run as One of the Most Active Angel Groups in US Denver, CO – Rockies Venture Club (RVC), one of the largest and most experienced Angel investing organizations in the country, led and...
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How Angel Experience Can Help Social/Environmental Impact Companies
How Angel Experience Can Help Social/Environmental Impact Companies. The paradox in impact investing is that a large percentage of impact investors are hurting the very companies that they want to...
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