If you are looking for money and there are angels in your community, you will find them or they will find you.

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Overall, remember what VCs are looking for big numbers, in relation to Angels or other potential investors.

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With the Texas Rangers having a similar yet less substantial TV deal of their own signed last year, we could be looking at Yankees-Red Sox West as the Angels and Rangers seem poised to be the 2 wealthiest franchises west of the Mississippi.

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It acquires equity in startups often on the cheap via a hodgepodge of sources: venture funds in wind down mode, pension funds and endowments looking to purge long-term illiquid assets from their portfolios, or just founders, VCs and angels starved for a little liquidity.

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Rather than avenging angels protecting the American consumer from harm, opportunistic plaintiffs can easily become 21st century robber barons looking to pad their bottom lines and crush their opposition.

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