Tag Archives: Angel investor

Joe Montana And Ashton Kutcher Don’t Just Send flowers, They bought their own flower Company

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If a popular coffee chain can raise over $40 million from the San Francisco tech community, maybe it shouldn’t be surprising that a flower company can count Ashton Kutcher and Joe Montana as...

I Invested In A Startup – Now What?

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In a previous post, I wrote about investors increasingly turning to alternative investments in an effort to generate uncorrelated returns, hedge risk and diversify their asset allocation. This trend...
    






Ryan Caldbeck’s CircleUp Democratizes Funding Process For Start-Ups and Investors

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A Series of Forbes Insights Profiles of Thought Leaders Changing the Business Landscape: Ryan Caldbeck, Founder and CEO, CircleUp… “We’re an online investing marketplace that matches small investors...
    






6 tools used by startup investing insiders to identify — and invest in — the next Facebook

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When news hit in early 2011 that Goldman Sachs (NYSE: GS) was giving its clients the opportunity to invest in (then private) Facebook (NASDAQ: FB) shares, investors knew something big was afoot. FB...
    






5 New Years resolutions from a startup investor

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My recent post, Why Your Startup is Going to Fail, took aim at entrepreneurs. Raising money for a new business and then building out a lasting enterprise is extremely hard. The gruelling...
    






Inside the real Dragons’ Den

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“Over good wine we came up with the idea of putting ourselves in the middle of people with money and people who need it. We thought of making Dragon’s Den online, it was amazingly flawed.” This was...