Not exact matches
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.
«These industries are so antiquated, but nobody's approached them because it's very hard to dynamically change an industry or really innovate if you don't inherently
use it and understand it at its core,» says Zak, who is also an
angel investor in female - oriented condom startup Sustain.
In other cases, the financing sources might get layered in one after another, as is the case when an
angel investor can
use his or her own network of contacts to quickly bring in a banker or other financing institution.
If you're serious about becoming an
angel investor and could
use a venture capital adviser to help guide you through the process, MicroVentures is the right choice.
In the context of an
angel group with membership application standards consistent with those of the industry and approved by an industry group, things like a personal referral from an existing accredited
investor member, automated background and identity checks, and the
use of an expanded
investor suitability questionnaire, might be deemed to satisfy the «reasonable steps to verify» test under Rule 506 (c).
I have had the discussion about whether
angels should pricing their investments or offer convertible debt with many professional
angel investors in the past and 2 in particular that I'll
use in this discussion.
They take on less personal risk than
angel investors or crowdfunders, who
use their own capital.
He eventually created the «Series Seed» documents that are
used by many leading
angel investors, including Ron Conway and Mike Maples.
We could really
use an
angel investor who wants the team to compete for titles to throw so much money out there that Stan and co. actually sell.
Using stories from his own
angel investing career, Jason wrote this book as a playbook for aspiring
angel investors.