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3 Ways to Save America's Black Boys, Pt. 2 of 3

Mike Green | Posted 05.23.2012

Read More: Black Innovation, America21, Mike Green, The America21 Project, Angel Investors, Economy, Saving America's Black Boys, Economic Competitiveness, Black Boys, Innovation Economy, Innovation, Venture Capital, STEM Education, Risk Capital, Bv-Life, Black Voices News

Waiting on government for a solution is like waiting on Superman; neither will rescue our Black boys. That's our job.

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Entrepreneurship Program Offers Financial Aid To Female, Minority Startups

Posted 05.16.2012

Read More: Investing, National Association of Investment Companies, Minority Startups, Angel Investors, Startups, Women in Business, Minority Entrepreneurs, Harvard Business School, Naic, Female Entrepreneurs, Bv-Money, Black Voices News

Despite their $1.1 trillion worth of buying power, African Americans are still largely underrepresented in the business sector when it comes to owners...

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Staying Independent

Fred Wilson | Posted 04.11.2012

Read More: Startups, Entrepreneurs, Ipos, Venture Capital, Angel Investors, Seed Investors, Small Business News

Possibly the most interesting running conversation I've been having with entrepreneurs lately is how they can keep their companies independent without having to go public and turn their cap table into a casino.

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23 Celebs Trying To Score Big In The Tech World

The Huffington Post | Courteney Palis | Posted 03.12.2012

Read More: Video, Tech Celebrities, Angel Investors, Celebrity Tech, Justin Timberlake, Celebrity, Slidepollajax, Celebrities, Ashton Kutcher, Lady GaGa, Justin Bieber, Myspace, Technology News

In the last few years, a number of celebrities have moved from the silver screen to smartphone screens: They've had a hand in founding (or funding) so...

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Increasing the Financing for Women-Led Businesses

Geri Stengel | Posted 04.28.2012

Read More: Women Entrepreneurs, Women Business Owners, Female Entrepreneurs, Female Business Leaders, Investing, Pipeline Fellowship, Angel Investors, Business News

It's a new view of philanthropy, a new intensity of involvement. But for wealthy philanthropic women, angel investing can generate social good as well as some very satisfying personal growth.

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Can Crowdfunding and Social Networks Forge Ties to Kickstart the Economy?

April Rudin | Posted 04.01.2012

Read More: Crowdfunding Law, Startups, Entrepreneurs, Venture Capital, Entrepreneurship, Crowdfunding, Angel Investors, Investors, Crowdsourcing, Unemployment, Rockthehub, Kickstarter, Business News

The U.S House of Representatives passed a bill last week known as HR2930 -- the crowdfunding bill. The eventual passage of this bill would propel the growth of sites like Kickstarter, Rockethub and others as new small-ish investors will clamor for access.

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Miami and South Florida Could Learn From Louisiana

Craig Agranoff | Posted 03.19.2012

Read More: Louisiana Economic Development, Miami Innovation Fund, Miami, Tax Incentive, Ncubate Miami, Technology, Tech Industry, Angel Investors, Miami News

Making the latest, greatest Facebook app? Starting up the coolest new social media idea? Building software that will fundamentally change healthcare? No incentives in Florida. Sorry.

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7 New Ways To Raise Startup Funds In 2012

The Huffington Post | Nate C. Hindman | Posted 12.23.2011

Read More: Raising Money, Startup Capital, Video, Crowdfunding, Angel Investors, Small Business News and Trends, New Ways to Raise Money in 2012, Slidepollajax, Small Business Lending, Small Business News

Startup funds will be harder to come by in 2012, according to hundreds of venture capitalists polled in a recent survey by the National Venture Capita...

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Angel Investing in Startups Stimulates Job Growth

Mike Green | Posted 02.20.2012

Read More: Black Innovation, Andres Montgomery, Ari Winkleman, Angel Investors, Zuckerberg, Mark Zuckerberg, Jobs, Rutgers, Entrepreneurs, Job Growth, Venture Capital, Gathering-of-Angels, Entrepreneurship, Investors, Business News

The next Mark Zuckerberg will likely emerge from environments that foster, nurture and invest in the innovative spirit of its talented entrepreneurs.

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Arrington Controversy Fuels Portland's Black Leaders

Mike Green | Posted 01.10.2012

Read More: Techcrunch Disrupt, Michael Arrington, Arrington, Soledad, Angel Investors, Cnn, Startups, Innovation, Black in America, Entrepreneur, Techcrunch, Michael Arrington Black Entrepreneurs, Black Voices News

Arrington's point offers us insight into an inconvenient truth: The venture capital industry has failed to significantly benefit Black and Hispanic sectors of urban regions.

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Women Entrepreneurs: It's Your Time

Lynn-Ann Gries | Posted 01.03.2012

Read More: Women Small Business, Investing, Women, Small Business, Startup, Angel Investors, Women Startups, Women Entrepreneurs, Startups, Venture Capital, Small Business News

Women entrepreneurs haven't received their share of investment. So, why should we care? Because female-led startups that receive the same level of investment as those led by men could add 6 million jobs to the economy within five years, one study found.

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Too Many Startups, Too Little Cash

Posted 12.30.2011

Read More: Tech Start-Ups, Video, Angel Investors, Start-Up Funding, Start-Up Businesses, Start-Ups, Technology News, Venture Capital, Technology, Venture Capital Firms, Silicon Valley, Business News

SAN Francisco (Sarah McBride) -- Venture capitalist Bill Gurley has noticed something new this autumn: a big jump in the number of what he calls "...

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Click.to -- The Little App That Could!

April Rudin | Posted 12.14.2011

Read More: Apps, Angel Investors, Germany, Computers, Software, Startups, Entrepreneurs, Venture Capital, Entrepreneurship, David-Heinemeier-Hansson, Starting a Business, 37 Signals, Facebook, Silicon Valley, Technology News

Sometimes people write to me and ask me to blog about their cause, product or whatever passion that they have. Because blogging is an activity for whi...

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Entrepreneurial Hotbeds: A Homegrown Mix Of Science And Luck

Reuters | Posted 12.19.2011

Read More: Small Business, Startup, Angel Investors, Kauffman Foundation, Small Business News and Trends, Startups, Incubators, Venture Capital, Startup Cities, Cities, Technoloy, Investors, Startups Cities, Video, Small Business News

(By Deborah L. Cohen) - Nick Cronin moved to Chicago from Milwaukee to stack the entrepreneurial deck in his favor, hoping to leverage the city's impr...

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Know Thyself

Roger Ehrenberg | Posted 12.17.2011

Read More: Startup Financing, Startup, Angel Investors, Technology Bubble, Entrepreneurs, Technology Investors, Venture Capital, Entrepreneurship, Technology Investing, Investors, Small Business News

Both founders and investors are, in many cases, paying way too much attention to reverberations within the venture echo-chamber instead of just making good, sensible plans consistent with their missions. Don't cede control of your destiny to the oscillating waves of popular thought.

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What Is A Revenue Based Loan?

Fred Wilson | Posted 12.17.2011

Read More: Small Business, Startup Financing, Angel Investing, Startup, Angel Investors, Venture Capitalists, Banks, Small Business Loan, Venture Capital, Technology Investing, Investors, Small Business News

Revenue-based financing can be a great option for profitable companies looking for a straightforward way to raise funding without dilution, change of control, or a personal guarantee.

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Finally, More Funding for Female Entrepreneurs

Carla Alpert And Diane Prefontaine | Posted 12.03.2011

Read More: PROUDgirls on the MOVE, Pipeline Fund, Proudgirls, Carla Alpert, Diane Prefontaine, Entrepreneurship, Female Entrepreneurs, Angel Investors, Women News

In the male-dominated arena of entrepreneurship, our day has finally come.

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A Social Network That Connects Startups With Investors

HuffingtonPost.com | Nate C. Hindman | Posted 11.20.2011

Read More: Small Business Success Stories, Google, Foursquare, Angellist, Twitter, Startup Funding, Angel Investors, Google Ventures, Naval Ravikant, Startups, Mark Zuckerberg, Venture Capital, Angels, Entrepreneur Spotlight, Entrepreneur-Spotlight, Small Business News

Venture capitalists may invest in innovation. But within the venture-capital industry itself, innovation is rare. There are signs, however, that t...

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Creating a Pipeline of Angel Investors

Nicole Skibola | Posted 11.15.2011

Read More: Angel Investor, Angel Investors, Women Investors, Women's Investment, Women Investing, Women Angel Investors, Women Venture Capital, Women Angel Investment, Women-Led Companies, Impact News

Women in general tend to be more conservative and less experienced investors than men of equivalent wealth. Realizing the importance of women angel investors, the Pipeline Fellowship was born.

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Back to School

Stephen O' Regan | Posted 11.07.2011

Read More: Bootstrapping, Startups, Stephen O Regan, Music, Angel Investors, Arianna Huffington, Investors, Business News

It's a very strange feeling to have created a concept that has naturally spread around the world but to have not succeeded in raising a basic revenue stream from it.

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Why You Should Invest With Other Women

Halle Tecco | Posted 11.04.2011

Read More: Investing, Women, Women 2.0, Angel Investors, Center for Venture Research, Social Entrepreneurship, Female Social Entrepreneurs, Women Startups, Female Startups, Women News

The startup world has long been a tightly-woven, self-perpetuating male-dominated network, with females making only 5 to 10 percent of venture capital...

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The End Of The Startup Boom?

Eric Ries | Posted 10.10.2011

Read More: Small Business, Angel Investors, Innovation, Entrepreneurs, Venture Capital, Investors, Investing, Technology Boom, Incubator, Startups, Silicon Valley, Entrepreneurship, Technology, Tech Bubble, Small Business America, Small Business News

It doesn't matter if you call it a boom or a bubble. The startup business moves in cycles, and what goes up will eventually come down.

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Venture Capital Firm Targets Women-Led Businesses

Angie Chang | Posted 10.10.2011

Read More: Female CEOs, Angel Investing Women, Angel Investing, Women CEOs, Angel Investors, Women Executives, Women in Technology, Women in Business, Women in Tech, Female Executives, Angel Investors Women, Business Women, Small Business America, Technology News

Golden Seeds makes investments in early stage high growth companies led by women. We want women to have more power and influence within companies -- and ownership in them -- with opportunities to make companies great places to work for women.

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Rare Strategic Merger: Investors' Circle & SJF Institute

Jonathan Lewis | Posted 10.02.2011

Read More: SJF Institute, Merger, Investors' Circle, Opportunity Collaboration, Angel Investors, Mergers, Investors' Circle & SJF Institute, Impact News

In an unexpected, but welcome, move, two prestigious and important actors in the social impact investing sector have announced to their respective memberships a full-on merger.

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Back to School for Startups Too!

Angela Haines | Posted 09.20.2011

Read More: Lindsey Barrett, Ethne Swartz, Angel Investors, Intercept Silver and Jewelry Care, Women Startups, Startups, Flat World Knowledge, Fairleigh Dickinson University, Venture Capital, Angel Capital Association, MBA Programs, Gina Tedesco, Golden Seeds, Opus International, Women News

In 2004, Esther Psarakis founded her imported specialty foods company, Taste of Crete, out of her love for Greece. She married a Greek, and very qu...

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