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What factors do you believe influences the success of a startup? 🚀 Andreas Antonopoulos, the expert teaching the "Understanding the basics of venture investments" masterclass, at Tech Investors Academy, told us his opinion. Delve deeper into the three masterclass sessions by joining our SeedBlink Circle community platform, the Video Library section. #startupsuccess #startupfunding #startupinvestment

Are you looking for your next investor? Here’s 2,500 of them. And no, you don’t need to ”comment to get more info”. Since we at Gilion are working with growth capital for startups and collaborating with VCs during funding rounds, we wanted to map out potential partners and VCs across the globe a year ago 🌎💰 Faced with scattered information in spreadsheets and airtables, we realized quickly we should just build something ourselves. So we did. A comprehensive tool featuring 2,500 global investors, designed to provide an interactive way to navigate the VC landscape. Then made it accessible for the startup community to use themselves. Since launch, we have seen over 50,000+ using it and 400+ investors have reached out to be added. So here it is, the newly updated and improved VC-mapping for the startup community. Open for everyone to access! Missing any VC firm? Let me know and I’ll add them as well 👋 https://lnkd.in/dGHYaRka

Thrilled to hear that Kola A. from Ventures Platform will be sharing his expertise at the Tech Founders’ Summit on August 17th! His dedication to discovering and funding emerging tech enterprises is truly commendable. Looking forward to gaining insights into building a thriving entrepreneurial ecosystem from someone as passionate as Kola. Counting down the days! 🚀🎤 #TFS #TechLeadership #VentureCapital #Entrepreneurship

Introducing #EQUIDEBT, the next big funding instrument, at LetsIgnite 2023 As we are moving from a startup ecosystem to startup economy, founders should start thinking of equidebt as a financial instrument. Very few people understand debt. It is not just venture debt coming on top of equity. With EQUIDEBT as a product at LetsVenture with Stride Ventures and StrideOne, we aim to make debt useful and simple to understand in order to propel businesses. Shanti Mohan Ishpreet Singh Gandhi #startupinvesting #privatemarket #equidebt

💖 Spread the love this Valentine's Day by showing some affection for disruptive startups and angel investing with AdValorem Angel Syndicate! 💖 Share your thoughts below! #ValentinesDay #InvestingLove

We initially aimed to bridge the gap between startups and media, but we've found a new fanbase—VC scouts swamped with pitch decks! Now, startups can share a link to their deck. VC scouts can give a thoughtful yet quick Y/N response. All in a matter of seconds! 🚀 #coldpitching #coldemailing #coldoutreach

Why are we creating Open Angel? When we started Angel Investing School four years ago, our goal was to develop the next generation of angel investors through our public and corporate courses. Why? because we believed that angel investors were so much more than financial backers; but the catalysts for change, bringing diverse perspectives and expertise to the table. Without them many of the products and services we use today would not exist. After successfully training 600+ angel investors around the world, we are launching Open Angel to share the best of what we have learned from seasoned investors and operators in an easy and accessible way. Open Angel is an open sourced educational platform, where experienced professionals can learn how to invest in early stage startups.

The Hidden Dangers of Smart Money Mentors - Startups Beware! Not all VC mentorship leads to failure, but the majority of startups do fail despite "smart money" guidance. Founders should develop checks and balances in these mentor relationships. Hashtags: #VCMentorship #SmartMoney #StartupFailure #IndependentThinking #DevelopChecksBalances #SeekDiverseAdvisors #TrustYourGut #ThoughtfulMentorship #RetainStrategicControl

Dev tools investors & founders, Dev Angels is hosting a pitch event on Tuesday, October 10th, 5 pm PT - 8 pm ET. We're featuring Prompt, an open source AI-powered terminal to manage all your command line interactions. Following a Zoom presentation there will be a discussion among potential angel investors. Mike Sawka, founder and CEO, is a Terman Award winner at Stanford with 20+ years of Silicon Valley experience. His company is the most-requested startup from a recent Alchemist Accelerator demo day. A known VC has filled most of the Series Seed round. We're already invested, and were able to reserve a small additional allocation for our community members. Dev Angels is an investor club of CTOs and senior developers interested in dev tools angel investments and otherwise helping out with seed stage startups. Individual members make their own decisions to invest.

Here's a young startup founder's first PoC, striving to demonstrate potential to keen investors. Two seconds of stability today, endless possibilities tomorrow! The first successful PoC might only last two seconds, but it's a start. The PoC stage is all about balance and making those seconds count. All credit to my lovely son Michael for showcasing the early phases of testing a hypothesis! #startupstrategy #poc #mvp #funnyvideos