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Angel Investment Network Now Offering Helpful Tips on Bootstrapping Start-ups and Small Businesses Entrepreneurs

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(PRWEB) May 26, 2013

Global leader of investment networks, Angel Investment Network, is now offering practical and helpful tips to assist small businesses and start-ups. These tips outline practical and effective methods to bootstrap the business make it more investable. These tips are especially helpful to start-ups with limited funds and provide guidance on clever methods of bootstrapping that attract the attention of venture capitalists and angel investors.    

As a leading online community for angel investors and start-ups, Angel Investment Network highlights different methods and techniques to bootstrap start-ups and make their companies more attractive to inventors via advice on their websites, news and blog sections. The blog is predominantly focusing on unique, practical, and effective tips to strengthen new businesses all over the world. Apart from offering tips on finding angel investment, the blog is also offering links to different websites that provide more information on specific methods and techniques to help assist entrepreneurs.

The popular community is aimed at start-ups anywhere in the world as they face similar challenges, that of limited funding. Angel Investment Network is highlighting the fact that most start-ups and small businesses do not have adequate funds to fund their companies like their established counterparts. However, with the right methods, angel investors and venture capitalists could take an interest in new companies, provided that they have the passion, vision, focus, resourcefulness as well as dedication to become prosperous in the long term.

Angel Investment Network is encouraging start-ups to perform as much research as possible to maximize chances of success in any venture. For example, the blog is suggesting start-ups to conduct surveys and customer reviews to determine the level of interest generated for a specific product or a service and how much they are likely to pay for it. Approaching industry experts and asking for favors from friends and family are other ways to raise capital for start-ups. Other small yet significant methods to create a buzz about new business ventures include setting up a website, crowd funding, social media and video, such as recording a demonstration video of services of products to feature on the website.

The site is also offering helpful advice on hiring the right core team, developing a solid marketing strategy, networking with peers, and building partnerships with distributors, clients, and third parties were also highlighted by the latest blog featured on the Angel Investment Network website.    

The largest online network of investors and businesses worldwide, Angel Investment Network has a member count of over 350,000 worldwide. With over thirty networks spread in over eighty countries across Asia, Europe, North America, South America, Africa, and Australasia. Angel Investment Network allows investors from all over the world to work with start-ups and promising businesses on a local, national, and international scale.

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Learnhive, an Adaptive K-12 Learning Solutions Provider, raises $400K from Angel investors

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(PRWEB) May 29, 2013

The school experience is essential to a child’s educational development. Students must be able to have structured conversations with their peers and teachers in a collaborative environment, in order to gain an in-depth understanding of any subject. At the same time, the teacher has the challenge to cover the prescribed syllabus topics within a particular year. So in the process, it is not practically possible where the individual learning needs, especially remedial or advanced, can be met by the overall classroom experience.

Princeton-based LearnHive manages to do exactly what the classroom experience cannot: through their flagship “Personal Concept Tutor”, it provides an individualized learning experience that is personally catered to students. It uses an adaptive learning approach to pinpoint students’ strengths and weaknesses, creates specialized, curriculum based, learning activities that are structured for each student’s needs, which can be done outside the school. And just like a private tutor, the more a student uses the Personal Concept Tutor, the better it gets in guiding them in overcoming their weaknesses, boosting their strengths, and doing better in school.

This promise is exactly what the Angel investors in the U.S. and India have bought into and invested in. Learnhive raised $ 400,000 in seed round from an eclectic group of Angel investors that span education, Wall Street and retail expertise. “Alongside adding improved app features, this infusion of funds will help us to provide unlimited worksheets, games and tests covering the entire U.S. Common core state standards for Mathematics and English. And tapping into the advisory experience of our Angels will be invaluable.” commented Shiv Shankar, Founder and CEO, Learnhive.

Students are used to the interactive, fast-paced interface of smartphones, tablets and laptops. The Personal Concept Tutor takes advantage of such technologies by providing a very intuitive, engaging, learning experience that is available across any Apple, Android or Windows 8 based tablet or smartphone of their choice. The students can seamlessly move from learning on their iPad while traveling, to learning on their laptop/PC when at home.

While the Personal Content Tutor succeeds in creating an individualized experience, it does not neglect to create a community of learners who can collaborate to optimize the educational experience, perhaps calling forth the “hive” mindset implied in the company’s name – students are able to submit questions in order to bolster their understanding of the material and are able to enter quiz, writing and drawing contests with other students from around the world, allowing educators and users to combine the cooperative element of classroom learning, with the global scale of the Internet.

Learnhive also provides Smart Learning Math Cards, which are available as standalone Apps for Mathematics covering Grade 7 through Grade 10, and can be downloaded from the Apple and Google App stores. These cards condense the entire Math syllabi for a particular school grade to just 80 Smart Learning Cards. Each smart learning card in the App provides quick visual summary of a concept with beautiful illustrations and examples, and helps students to revise important Mathematics properties and formulae. The App also provides practice and challenging exercises within the app to test mastery of that topic.

Visit http://www.learnhive.com to find out more about how Learnhive is helping students do better in school.







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Gust to Host Second Annual Venture Forward Conference 2013

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New York, NY (PRWEB) May 29, 2013

Gust, the global investor relations platform connecting high-growth entrepreneurs and active early-stage investors, will host the second annual Venture Forward Conference 2013, in New York City on Tuesday, June 18th. The day-long event, taking place at the TriBeCa Rooftop, will convene the world’s leading angel investors, venture capitalists, non-traditional investors, and select members of the media to discuss and debate the accessibility, growing interest, and future of the rapidly evolving early-stage investing market.

“The landscape of early-stage start-up financing has gone through several changes as its popularity and access continue to grow and expand. Venture Forward 2013 will bring together the industry’s leaders for a high-level debate and discussion on the challenges and opportunities facing early-stage investing,” said David S. Rose, CEO of Gust. “This conference is an exclusive opportunity to hear from the world’s leading investors and brightest minds at the forefront of the industry to help shape the direction of the early-stage ecosystem.”

Industry visionaries speaking at the event include Allan May of Emergent Medical Partners, Andrew Cleland of Comcast Ventures, Ann Winblad of Hummer Winblad, Christine Herron of Intel Capital, Bob Rice of Tangent Capital, David Hornik of August Capital, Dusan Stojanovic of True Global Ventures, John Huston of Ohio TechAngels, Linda Holliday of Citia, Mark Suster of GRP Partners, Roger Ehrenberg of IA Ventures, Rory Eakin of CirclUp, and Sunny Bates of Sunny Bates Assocates. Discussion moderators will include leading financial journalists from Bloomberg and CNBC.

In addition to a highly interactive conference agenda and participation in panel discussions, attendees will have the opportunity to take part in the conference’s professional networking opportunities to foster high-end engagement and dialogue with featured angel investors, venture capitalists, prominent media figures, and policy makers.

Participation in Venture Forward 2013 is by invitation. Interested parties may apply by visiting the online registration request form on the conference website.

About Gust

Gust provides the global platform for the sourcing and management of early-stage investments. Gust enables skilled entrepreneurs to collaborate with the smartest investors by virtually supporting all aspects of the investment relationship, from initial pitch to successful exit. Gust is endorsed by the world’s leading business angel and venture capital associations, and powers over 750 investment organizations in 65 countries. More than 180,000 start-ups have already used the platform to successfully managed fundraising rounds.

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FD Venture Farm announces strategic partnerships with leading Angel Investor Organizations

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Atlanta, GA (PRWEB) May 31, 2013

FD Venture Farm, LLC today announced a strategic relationship with six of the nation’s leading Angel investor organizations. These Angel groups will utilize FD Venture Farm’s technology platform and services to manage and socialize portfolio company business updates and to facilitate syndication initiatives between Angel organizations for follow-on seed and seed prime investments. Series A institutional investors, strategic investors and corporate acquirers will also leverage the FD Venture Farm to identify angel funded companies ready for institutional capital or a potential acquisition.

The following Angel Investor Organizations have joined the strategic initiative:


    Georgia – Atlanta Technology Angels (ATA)
    Georgia – Ariel Savannah Angel Partners (ASAP)
    Alabama – Angel Investor Management Group (AIM)
    South Carolina – Upstate Carolina Angel Network (UCAN)    
    North Carolina – Piedmont Angel Network (PAN)
    Florida – Tamiami Angel Fund I, LLC (TAFI)

“Angel Investor organizations have grown significantly over the last decade and have emerged as the nation’s most significant driver of capital formation for early stage ventures,” observed Mike Eckert, Vice Chairman of the Angel Capital Association. “Angel organizations are becoming more organized and sophisticated in the manner in which they collaborate, not only within their respective local organizations, but across geographical boundaries. The FD Venture Farm platform will help create synergies with an expanding group of Angel organizations and will significantly help early stage companies facilitate capital formation and exit activity.”

“Improving the efficiency of capital acquisition for both investors and companies is a major goal of our business model,” said Dick Reeves, CEO of the Angel Investor Management Group. “We manage investments by over 200 people in over 16 different companies, and constantly seek ways to smooth the flow of information in all directions and over all our geographies. FD Venture Farm appears to have great potential to facilitate these goals.”

“The FD Venture Farm platform supports important strategic and operational directives of our organization, “said Bernie Dixon, Executive Chairman of the Atlanta Technology Angels. “It is important to provide our membership a mechanism to track the progress of our funding activities after investments have been made and throughout the entrepreneurial and funding lifecycles.    As an independent service, associated with one of the largest CPA firms in the country, FD Venture Farm represents a trusted and professional resource to fulfill our needs and support the ATA ecosystem.”

“Increasing the reach and efficiency of Angel organizations is critical to fueling the vital entrepreneurial activities in our nation’s economy,” said Matt Dunbar, Managing Director of Upstate Carolina Angel Network and Angel Capital Association Board member. “Our group has been searching for a much needed process and technology platform to enable our early stage ventures to provide important financial and milestone updates on their businesses as they mature. The FD Venture Farm platform represents an independent and professional service that will standardize company updates and help us manage access to those updates not only for our organization, but also for other Angel organizations, larger institutional and corporate investors, and potential strategic acquirers.”

“Angel organizations are a critical source of funding for early stage ventures,” said Mark Rainosek, CEO and President of FD Venture Farm. “We are excited to be able to bring value to leading Angel investor organizations. FD Venture Farm provides the technology and processes to intelligently monitor and track early stage companies for Angel investors as well as interested institutional and strategic investors and acquirers.”

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About FD Venture Farm

FD Venture Farm, LLC is an independent deal monitoring service designed to facilitate the tracking of specific companies of interest to investors. Companies tracked through the service are limited to those referred by approved institutional and private equity capital investors and lenders. FD Venture Farm is a Frazier & Deeter company.

About Frazier & Deeter

Frazier & Deeter LLC is a nationally recognized CPA and Advisory firm headquartered in Atlanta, Georgia. The firm provides tailored services across a wide range of tax, audit, accounting and advisory needs. Frazier & Deeter is one of the 100 largest firms in the country and has been named the #1 Accounting Firm to Work For in the U.S. by Accounting Today magazine and a “Best of the Best” CPA firm in the U.S. by Inside Public Accounting.







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eGood Among 50 Top Innovators to Present at New York Venture Summit 2013

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New York, NY (PRWEB) June 13, 2013

eGood was chosen as a presenter at the 13th annual New York Venture Summit at The Digital Sandbox Network Event Center on June 17-18. The premier industry gathering was created by youngStartup Ventures to connect the country’s top start-ups and early-stage companies with an exclusive audience of venture capitalists, angel investors, and strategic partners. eGood was selected as one of 50 Top Innovators, and one of just a few companies in the technology/social good sector, making presentations.

“We’re excited about the momentum developing with eGood, and this adds even more to it,” said founder and CEO Zack Swire. “We’ve already seen a growing demand in the U.S. market. Just recently at Sustainable Brands ’13, we learned the global demand is much greater than we realized as well, especially in countries like the UK, Germany, China, and Brazil.”

For now, eGood is proving itself by getting off the ground in Glendora and Claremont, California, where six months of signups have resulted in over $ 4,000 in donations to 12 causes. According to Swire, “With a relatively small donation base, we’ve already seen a significant impact. Imagine what we can achieve when eGood takes off around the country and around the world.”

About eGood:

eGood is a movement about choosing good. It empowers businesses to give to worthy causes, activates the community, and allows users to track their impact and see how ordinary actions create extraordinary change. eGood’s goal is to become the ubiquitous way for businesses to give back while providing sustainable benefits to all parties. Find out more at http://www.egood.com.







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