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Startup Capital: Feast or Famine?

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Let’s take a closer look at trends in government grants, angel investment and venture capital financings. According to the Center for Venture Research, The Angel Investor Market in 2010 was about $20 billion and funded about 60,000 companies, with about one-third of that capital committed to seed/startup stage companies.

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Everything An Angel Investor Should Know About The Corporate Transparency Act

Angel Capital Association

by Joe Wallin , leader of the Angel Capital Association Legal Advisory Council and Pricipal at the law firm of Carney Badley Spellman, P.S. Big Picture The CTA is intended to assist law enforcement in combatting money laundering, tax fraud, financing of terrorism, and other illicit activity through anonymous shell and front companies.

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Why I Angel Invest

Angel Capital Association

Our Leadership Team started noticing something interesting around 2010: many of our customers were VC-backed startups. It made sense because a common playbook for consumer-facing startups was to build the product, prove PMF, raise capital from investors, and then deploy some/much/most of that capital in paid media to grow quickly.

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Beware the Tax Consequences of the Convertible Note

Angel Capital Association

Convertible notes are a popular instrument for raising early-stage capital. For a comprehensive discussion of convertible notes, see Angel Capital Association’s former Chair Emeritus John Huston’s excellent paper on this subject: here. Some notes have the right to convert at any time, not just at the next qualified financing.

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How Angel Investors Can Get 100% Capital Gains Exclusion Under Section 1202

Angel Capital Association

Banking, insurance, financing, leasing, investing, or similar businesses. Founding Partner Robert Weber is a member of Minnesota-based Gopher Angels, PropTech Angel Group, and the Angel Capital Association. This 100% exclusion, unlike many other tax breaks, is permanent. The stock must be in a C-Corporation.)

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