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Today’s a good day to post on my angel investment experience, because this afternoon I’ll be speaking to a group on this subject in Corvallis, Oregon. What I want to do is just describe how it went for me, one set of eyes, one viewpoint, without making any generalizations about the rest of the world [...]
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Craig from trackster.com asked me last week in a comment he added to my Willamette Angel Conference post:
I was wondering with all these business plan competitions that you judge, how many winners or even non winners have you seen turn into successful companies? Are there any examples that you could give?
Yes, a lot of these [...]
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Today I’ll be listening to pitches at the Willamette Valley Angel Conference, voting on which of them ends up with the $125K investment.
I’m one of 25 members. We started with 43 plans and narrowed them down to five finalists. We’ve broken into groups and done additional work on each of the finalists. Today we hear [...]
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Sometime in middle May you might find me emerging, blinking, uncomfortable from the sunlight, after reading and evaluating 75 or so business plans in a single month. And watching and judging and asking questions about almost as many presentations. I can see the headline:
Man reads 75 business plans in a month … and lives to [...]
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