Capital for your startup can be a lengthy and often frustrating process. Stack the odds in your favor! Here are the five most active U.S.-based angel investing groups in 2011 based on the Halo Report: 211 Angel Group Year in Review. Tech Coast Angels Tech Coast Angels is an angel investing group that was founded in 1997. It has approximately 3 members across … [Read more...] about Need Startup Funding? Pitch the 5 Most Active Angel Groups of 2011
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Infographic and Report on Angel Investment Groups in 2011
According to this infographic and report, angel investment groups included other non-angel group co-investors in deals than they excluded. Of all the investments by angel groups in 2011 covered in the report, 33% of investments did not have co-investors while 67% of investments had co-investors outside the angel group. Out of those co-investment deals, 75% of the time they … [Read more...] about Infographic and Report on Angel Investment Groups in 2011
Log In or Go Home – Pew’s State of the News Media 2012
The Pew Research Center’s State of the News Media report indicates that social media is now responsible for nine percent of all traffic into news web sites, an increase of some 57 percent over the course of two years. With Facebook’s meteoric expansion since 2008 and the percentage of U.S. adults using Twitter increasing to 13 percent, up from eight percent in 2001, as well as … [Read more...] about Log In or Go Home – Pew’s State of the News Media 2012
Raising Capital: How HR 2930 Could Change the Startup Ecosystem and Crowdfunding
Matt Fields, March 2, 212March 2, 212 in News You have an idea for a startup that could change the world, but how do you take that idea and make it a reality? A lot of the time the answer comes down to funding. Availability of funding for innovative ideas is a critical component of a healthy startup ecosystem. Fortunately, over the last few years, funding for startups has … [Read more...] about Raising Capital: How HR 2930 Could Change the Startup Ecosystem and Crowdfunding
Saudi Twitter ‘Blasphemer’ Supporters Fighting for Release
More than a month since Saudi Arabian poet and former columnist Hamza Kashgari was arrested and thrown into Saudi jail for posting on his Twitter feed what many in his home country deemed to be blasphemous tweets, friends and family of the young man continue to fight for his release. A friend of Kashgari’s and active member of the Free Hamza Kashgari Facebook group, who … [Read more...] about Saudi Twitter ‘Blasphemer’ Supporters Fighting for Release