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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...
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What Colorado is Doing to Prevent Sexual Harassment in the Startup Community
Sexual harassment, gender based bias (both intentional and unintentional) have been a big part of Silicon Valley culture for years. Women have struggled as startup CEOs to get funded, or as investors,...
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Your Startup Just Cashed its First VC or Angel Check – Now What?
After the first angel or VC funding round closes and the checks are cashed, most startups go through a transformation, like from a caterpillar to a butterfly, that makes them fundamentally different...
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Life Science Investing is Different than Software Tech Angel/VC Deals
Life Science Investing is Different than Software Tech Angel/VC Deals. Companies seeking early stage investment in their biotech, life science, medical device or digital healthcare companies face al...
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Angel Investing is not as Risky as you Think.
It’s a common misconception that angel investing and venture capital is extremely risky. But when best practices for investing are followed, tax breaks and portfolio returns can consistently outpace...
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Ten Reasons Why Not to Use Convertible Debt
It seems like a majority of pre-Series A deals are done with convertible debt these days and I’d like to point out a few reasons why this is a bad thing for entrepreneurs and investors alike. Just to...
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Creating an Angel Investor Certification Test
Many professional organizations have a certification test of competency that members must pass to demonstrate their knowledge and ability to perform at a high level. Doctors, Lawyers, CPA’s and other...
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MicroVCs are Changing the Landscape of Venture Capital
As the cost of starting a tech company has gone down, VCs have moved upstream, funding bigger and bigger deals while angels and angel groups have taken up the sub-five million funding space. Meanwhile,...
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Is Denver the #3 U.S. Location for Micro Venture Capital?
We’ve known for years that Colorado has more startups per capital than anywhere else. Yes – per capita. It’s a great location to start up a company and maybe you’re wondering if there’s a Venture...
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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...
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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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...
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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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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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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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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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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...
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...
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...
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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...
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