Sentences with phrase «about the angel of»

One of the reasons I am thinking about all of this is because of the book I just read, Unmasking the Powers, and what the author said in there about the angels of nations, and how national pride and patriotism for the country could be a form of idolatry.

Some manuscripts and versions have an almost exact parallel to this in Matthew after the saying about the angels of the little ones.

In this selfie mom was too worried about the angel of the picture to make her bikini body more flattering.

The external conflict is about an angel of death poisoning Christian's pregnant vampire patients and he's loosing his mind trying to nail down the culprit.

Not exact matches

Round A funding: If you're beyond the «3F» (friends - family - and - fools) investment stage and seeking about $ 500,000 — at the low end of a Round A funding, you may get your best advice now from an experienced «super angel» in your field.

In 2007, angel investors were interested in hearing a pitch about revenue growth, and the decision to invest involved some amount of fear of losing the opportunity.

He introduced us to about 20 angel investors and a couple of venture capitalists.

There was the founder who had a term sheet from an American investor canceled after the investor saw something on the Internet about a protest in Argentina; the founder who had given up 80 percent of his company to secure seed capital; and the founder who was so strapped for cash that he had had to raise an angel funding round just to go to a trade show in San Francisco.

That was how James Hong (angel investor, badass, founder of HotOrNot) responded to an article I had written two years ago about the loneliness of being a founder.

Research from the Kauffman Foundation Angel Returns Study and the Nesta Angel Investing study, compiled by Robert Wiltbank, have demonstrated that the average angel investor produced a gross multiple of 2.5 times their investment, in a mean time of about four years.

I'm not talking about Angel Funds, where a group of Angels pool their money to make investments.

He raised $ 6 million from investors, including Silicon Valley's Band of Angels, and used the money to launch a recycling operation that now turns out about 500,000 pounds of different grades of plastics a month.

In his new book, angel investor Brian Cohen talks about the importance of getting smart money for your startup.

Despite all the talk of venture capital, angel investors, business loans and the like, the fact is about one - third of startup funding comes from credit cards.

DreamIt, a start - up incubator founded in Philadelphia hosted a demo day in Midtown Manhattan Wednesday for about 250 attendees, many of them venture capitalists and angel investors looking for the next Dropbox or Scvngr.

Chat with the group's administrator about the sorts of businesses its angels have funded and why.

In 2007, angel investor and now head of 500 Startups Dave McClure gave a talk at Seattle Ignite about a 5 - step framework for startup growth he called Pirate Metrics.

About $ 1 million of the company's $ 3.5 million in angel funding has gone to Internet - related software, hardware, and phone systems, and some 10 % of its sales go to staff a five - person customer - service department.

My father loved to talk about the Blue Angels as a model of excellence, and as a college coach I modeled my team's post-game debriefs after the Blue Angels».

About 80 percent of TechStars start - up graduates go on to raise venture capital or a significant angel - funding round, versus maybe 1 percent of all startups who seek funding.

Word - of - mouth — through networking with angel investors, VCs and larger PEGs — is often the only way to learn about these boutiques.

They've undergone a round of angel investing, but are remaining mum for the time being about the identities of potential investors and partners.

Clavier came by our office studio to talk about the state of angel investing.

Women represented about 13 percent of angel investors, and female entrepreneurs accounted for 21 percent of those seeking angel capital.

I've done about 10 angel investments in the past couple of years, and there is definitely a trend towards higher valuations and more competitive deals.

Part Eight: In addition to Q&A from the crowd, here we hear about some of the angel investments both founders have made and a discussion on why Chicago is becoming a premiere city for startups.

Former Angels and Orioles third baseman Doug DeCinces was convicted Friday of insider trading stemming from allegations that he received stock tips from a neighbor that garnered him about $ 1.3 million in profits.

We also think it makes sense to augment it with our base service of introducing high - quality companies to sophisticated investors (VCs, Seed Funds, Professional Angels)-- we currently drive 500 - 700 of those introductions per week, and drive about $ 10M / month there.»

SeedInvest sits down with Graham Gullans, Managing Director of Empire Angels, to talk about his startup investing tips.

I was once thinking about writing a blog post called «Is Reid Hoffman the Kevin Bacon of Silicon Valley» because it seemed that every angel / seed investor I knew looking at deals was shopping their deal to Reid and everybody wanted Reid's opinion before committing.

Tim Baker, Global Head of Content Strategy at Thomson Reuters, reminded all that angel and venture financing is relatively small - only about $ 25 billion a year.

Bloomberg Television's Scarlet Fu spoke with him about the rise of angel investing - what works and what doesn't - as well as other insights from his entrepreneurial career

I've been mulling the idea of a 100x investment ever since I went to a monthly angel meeting and they talked about one such home run.

«One thing I had worried about with angel investing is you have to be really, really rich,» says the co-founder of PaperQuilt, a collaborative storytelling platform.

I've written about the topic of convertible debt at length before specifically about how angels & entrepreneurs should think about pricing.

With current rates of funding, to reach parity across just the angel and early - stage VC markets would require about $ 7.7 billion.

But to the question of how a VC thinks about your angel money if you do raise it, here are my thoughts:

About the Author Bonnie Foley - Wong is the founder of Pique Ventures, an impact investment and management company, and Pique Fund, an angel fund focusing on leadership diversity and women - led ventures.

In fact, angel investors have about nine years of experience, and they have an average of one investment per year.

From the 13 shortlisted startups at 1st batch of the early stage tech Startup Accelerator program, about three or four selected startups would get acceleration fund from Z Nation Lab, while venture capital firms such as Matrix Partners, Accel India, Mumbai Angels will be part of the investor panel on the demo day and may invest in promising startups.

About ACA: The Angel Capital Association is the leading professional and trade association supporting the success of angel investors in high - growth, early - stage ventures.

In November last year, the company raised about $ 1.8 million (up to Rs 12 crore) in its second round of angel funding from a bunch of unnamed high net - worth individuals (HNIs).

Most of the discussion about the 100 % exclusion of capital gains from the sale of «qualified small business» stock, extended now by the new tax law for stock purchased prior to January 1, 2012, has been about the enticement it represents for angels and other early - stage venture investors to fund more startups.

After surveying our membership about the proposed changes to the taxation of CCPCs and how they might affect the availability of capital and active Angel support for entrepreneurs, we found that possible outcomes include decreased incentive and capital for Angels to invest and decreased access to early - stage capital, which may adversely influence the flow of funds and resources to Canadian entrepreneurs.

There was open discussion in Atlanta about the fact that lots of angels haven't made money yet.

At ten years into the development of the angel capital industry, we are just starting to have the important discussions about how angel capital works, how we can best help entrepreneurs grow new companies and how we will contribute to the 21st century economy.

The angel investment «industry» today is at about the same stage of development as the venture capital industry was in the mid 1980's.

After being an active angel investor for about fifteen years, I realized that many of the discussions I was involved in were virtually identical to ones I'd had many times before.

It may have been intended to encourage more angel investment by the end of the year, but most of the folks I know who've thought about it agree that, if spurring additional angel and startup investment was the desired impact, the break would really need to be in place permanently, or for a longer period of time.

After listening to that episode, I began thinking more and more about angel groups and how that seems like a really easy way to have a cohort that you run deals by and also have the same decision autonomy of doing it lone wolf style.