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ACA has continued its efforts to push legislation to help the entire Angel community. ACA has continued its efforts to push legislation to help the entire Angel community. Through ACA’s strong and experienced public policy leadership team, ACA has been able to gain more diverse voices as both investors and entrepreneurs.
Public Policy: ACA believes in the impact and benefits of angel investing to entrepreneurs, job growth and the economy. Deeply active on the federal legislative and regulatory fronts, ACA helps safeguard and galvanize the rights of American angel investors so that we can protect the foundation that fuels the startup economy.
As they have proved time and time again, angels have embraced portfolio companies even in times of tougher fundraising and worked vigorously to keep startups, and job growth, moving forward. We commend the VC’s and angels that have rallied around their entrepreneurs to repurpose lessons learned from the 2008/2009 recession.
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We’ve definitely got some success stories. Rowena sees the university as a whole as being a support system for student entrepreneurs. You need your entrepreneurs ; you need people with ideas who want to do stuff of value. You need your entrepreneurs ; you need people with ideas who want to do stuff of value.
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