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The Market Diversifies: International Innovation Captures Larger Share Of Startup Funding Applications

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Quarterly data from Gust, the online platform for the global angel investment industry, reveals that while incumbent leaders show no sign of slowing down, new industries and areas Read more >.

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Second-Class Investor Citizens: Facebook’s IPO and Dual-Class Equity Structures

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By contrast, venture capital and angel investments normally take the form of Preferred Stock with rights and preferences set forth in the company’s Certificate of Incorporation and other governance documents. Options and warrants, when issued, are also typically exercisable for shares of Common Stock.

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The Importance of Due Diligence when Investing in Startups

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Due diligence on a startup can be divided into the following two components: Industry due diligence , which refers to the big picture and involves understanding the industry, who are the incumbent players in the market, who are the competitors, what competitive advantage the startup has, what their chances of success might be, and similar research.

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Fintech Roundup: Better.com workers leaving in ‘droves’ in wake of CEO Vishal Garg’s return

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As these technologies proliferate in everyday life, we’ll witness the advent of the Internet of Payments …Together, sooner than you might think, the newcomers will unseat the incumbents. For over two years, Nik has been putting out a newsletter called This Week In Fintech, working at Google Pay and angel investing.

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Meet Crowd.dev, an open source user-led growth platform for fostering developer communities

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million) in a pre-seed round of funding led by Seedcamp and Lightbird, with participation from Possible Ventures, Angel Invest and a handful of angel backers. To help take things to the next level, Crowd.dev has just raised €2.2 million ($2.2