Tagged: angels

Start Up Culture Needs Crowdfunding Reboot

There was an article published on Business Insider recently by James Pethokoukis from the American Enterprise Group talking about how public policy is stifling entrepreneurs in the United States.  He had some pretty interesting information to back up this statement. First lets look at some… Read More

Crowdfunding: Moving the elephant through the python

Startups today are whining about the lack of funding available after raising a family-and-friends or angel seed round. They’re calling it the “Series A Crunch.” Angel investors made approximately 60,000 seed stage investments in 2011. In the same year, Venture capitalists made just under 2,000… Read More

Danger, Will Robinson! Software is eating the venture capitalists!

A new wave of angel investors is about to descend on startup land.  These New Angels are you and I.  AngelList will connect us to the market.  Equity crowdfunding platforms will broker our deals.  And the JOBS Act will make it all legal. While a… Read More

Why crowdfunding is disruptive to angels, but not to VCs

Six months ago I called the Director of Business Development for a well-respected angel group in California and told him about my company, CircleUp, an equity-based crowdfunding platform that would allow his angels to invest into private companies.  He had no interest in talking, saying “our angels… Read More

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