If they remain in Santiago they'll help bolster confidence in Start-Up Chile and stimulate the economy.
Still, super angels are increasingly jockeying with established venture capitalists for stakes in start-ups.
Interim valuations, particularly in start-up companies, whose worth, if any, lies far in the future, are difficult.
As investors, the analogy we like in start-ups is that new entrants generally propagate the most disruptive change.
When Levchin started to invest in start-ups, he decided to apply three tests to decide where to invest.
And the region has also seen a 17.5% fall in start-ups since 2004.
Then he tries to invest in start-ups that have interesting ideas about how to take advantage of those themes.
Given this common refrain, we should see a lot of Americans working in start-ups and relatively few in established companies, right?
Think how much interesting stuff could have been created if the billions spent on Skype were instead invested in start ups?
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Morgenthaler is an investor in start-ups Evernote and LendingClub, both of which are relevant to Pageonce in mobile and personal finance, respectively.
Faculty members commonly invest in start-ups launched by their students or colleagues.
Since 1999, the number of people working in start-ups has tumbled 46% from 4.6 million in 1999 to 2.5 million in 2011.
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Damion Hankejh, an investor in start-ups including CrowdFlower and Etacts, says his background as a consultant at IBM and General Electric Co.
But a confluence of factors is contributing to the development of New York as an important long term player in start-up tech.
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He is currently spending his time investing in start-ups, lots of them.
The decline in the share of Americans working in start-ups has been bumpy, with periods of increase as well as periods of decrease.
This stands in start contrast to Big Pharma: most firms have only functioned in a world of incredibly high operating and gross margins.
The fund, called BMW i Ventures, will develop some of these services in-house, but will also invest in start-up providers of innovative services.
Published reports have signalled that they include a U.S. willingness to compromise on principled U.S. positions on air-launched and sea-launched cruise missiles in START.
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Nearly half of Blackstone's deals since 2009, for example, have been stakes in start-up or "platform" companies that it will slowly grow through deals.
Especially in start-up phase, every member of the team has to take care of his or her own responsibilities first, otherwise success is unlikely.
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George Osborne, the chancellor of the exchequer, made some progress in his most recent budget by increasing the tax relief available for investors in start-ups.
One possible factor driving angels' greater diligence is the rise of angel alliances, with individuals banding together to invest in start-ups to spread the risk.
Many of the ideas are half-baked, idealistic or charmingly flawed but they reflect the optimism about or, at the very least, growing interest in start-ups.
But advance bookings may grow, thanks to a boom in start-ups competing to become the prime online aggregator of such transactions, such as GetYourGuide and Zozi.
Yet, those who create and work in start-ups keep coming back.
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In the technical world there is a certain stereotype of the young, white, male geek that has been the driving force in start-ups and with funders.
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Some asked for introductions to his colleague, Asheem Chandna, who specializes in investing in start-ups that sell geeky enterprise-tech products around security and the data center.
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However, Haynie believes that the entire ecosystem is optimized to make the best use of the talent and technology in start-ups at different stages of development.
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John Haltiwanger, an economist at the University of Maryland, says he's skeptical of the GEM report given that it claims such a dramatic boost in start-up activity.
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