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Angelsoft Investor Search

March 9th, 2009 · Comments

Today, Angelsoft, a company I’m very close to, released Angelsoft Investor Search — a tool which should continue the company’s mission to rationalize the venture capital and startup space with better tools and information.
In my experience, one of the biggest wastes of time for both investors and entrepreneurs is when an entrepreneur pursues a misfit [...]

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Tags: Entrepreneurship · Web Startup

AngelSoft & Dinging Bells

September 4th, 2008 · Comments

Hank Williams wrote an interesting post today, talking how how cool the AngelSoft homepage is.
He points out that seeing the activity on the site is not only interesting for visitors, but great for employees too. Hank goes on to recall the dinging bell Jeff Bezos put in the Amazon.com office to tell employees a sale [...]

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Tags: Web Startup · Web-trends

AngelSoft 3.0 Launches

September 2nd, 2008 · Comments

I want to send a big congrats to my friends at AngelSoft for their launch of AngelSoft 3.0 today.
I think this fact is cool: One can now say that there is a “common application” for Angel funding in the startup space — a common application real angel investors will actually look at!
From a business development [...]

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Tags: Entrepreneurship

Angel Funding Stats

August 5th, 2008 · Comments

AngelSoft 3.0 quietly went live the other day (congrats guys and gals).
One of the cooler new sections of the site is the page showing statistics about the angel investing industry.

On the page they have stats about median valuations and funds sought by companies (both trending down it the last two quarters). Also they publish info [...]

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Tags: Entrepreneurship · Web-trends