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How to Kick Start Your Community’s Startup Scene

Both Sides of the Table

Cincinnati, like many startup communities in the US over the past 5 years, has revitalized important regions in its urban core, created accelerators, built co-working facilities, pooled together angel capital, attracted VCs, involved educational institutions and solicited the help of important corporations in a more cohesive ecosystem.

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Angel Capital Association Awards Prestigious Hans Severiens Award to Sage Growth Capital’s Dr. Kevin Learned

Angel Capital Association

The Hans Severiens Award recognizes personal impact on the advancement of angel investing globally and highlights the special relationship that angels and entrepreneurs build to innovate, create jobs, and drive the economy. Over a lifetime of work, Learned has been an entrepreneur, Angel investor, academic and accountant.

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As a new independent angel investor, how will I find new companies to invest in?

Gust

For a new angel investor, by far the best thing to do is to join a local angel investor group that belongs to the Angel Capital Association. Some groups specialize, investing primarily in life sciences or tech companies or women-led ventures or other areas. Gust News Invested Interests'

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Should every startup get funded?

This is going to be BIG.

Too many entrepreneurs start out their business endeavors with an investment pitch. If you just looked at it just as an investment, you could undoubtedly find more money elsewhere, cheaper. That’s what makes venture capital such a risky investment. Help doesn’t necessarily mean an angel round sized check.

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Startup Investing: The New Trend in Alternative Assets

Onevest

But the data shows a rapidly growing trend in accredited investors investing together. This is something that we have experience at 1000 Angels , the private investor network that connects startups with investors. This is in contrast to going it alone in direct investments or publicly traded REITs and stocks.

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Startup Capital: Feast or Famine?

Gust

For years there has been a pervasive opinion across the entrepreneurial landscape that the US has a shortage of capital required to startup and grow new ventures. But, what evidence do we have of this shortage of capital? Let’s take a closer look at trends in government grants, angel investment and venture capital financings.

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"Money is Local, Impact is Global" for Angel Investing

Onevest

By Michael "Luni" Libes In the traditional world of early stage, Angel and VC investing, money is local. Studies show that over 80% of funding at Angel groups and Series A VCs goes to businesses in the same city/region as the funders. Over in the impact investing space, this rule is not true. Read the original post here.