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    1. Five Top Tips for Soliciting Accredited Investors

      Explore Fox Small Business Center (Jan 24 2012) Funding

      Five Top Tips for Soliciting Accredited Investors Individual investors in startup companies are known in small business finance circles as “angel” investors. This term originated not in the well-known epicenters of startup activity, but in the Broadway theater district. To the actors, playwrights and choreographers, wealthy patrons who funded new musical and theatrical productions were called “angels” because they helped the artists' big stage dreams come true. In addition to the time-saving advantage of collecting big checks from a fewer numbe (Read Full Article)

      Mentions:   SEC   Congress

    2. Six Mistakes Entrepreneurs Make When Seeking Venture Capital

      Explore Fox Small Business Center (Jan 18 2012) Funding

      Pitching venture-capital investors to launch or grow your business  is a delicate process, so you need to tread carefully. There's an art to making a successful pitch, says Aaron Levie, cofounder and CEO of Box, an online content-sharing company  based in Palo Alto, Calif. He has raised $162 million in five rounds of funding and estimates he has pitched investors a few dozen times. "You should have a fully refined, bulletproof story," Levie says. Making an effective pitch is more important than (Read Full Article)

      Mentions:   Palo Alto   New York   National Venture Capital Association