And without employees or angel investors riding to the rescue, the future is unclear.
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Neither Dartitup nor Gentlemint has raised any funding from venture-capital firms or angel investors.
This is no Zodiac Killer, Son of Sam, Hillside Strangler, or Angel of Death.
Those who have found success often give back to the next generation through thought leadership, mentoring, or angel investing.
In the crowd, spectators donned devil or angel masks while the athletes wore red noses as they began celebrating their achievements.
Riccardo Zacconi, CEO of games-maker King.com, suggests more funds should go in at pre-seed, or "angel" rounds.
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About 80% of TechStars companies go on to raise venture capital or a significant angel funding round.
Physical or not, Angel of Georgetown says that there is a "time-zone effect" that discourages trading from migrating to one market.
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Everyone, it seems, was an angel or an expert in venture finance.
Even then, only three out of 20 of those successful enough to attract angel or venture-capital investors make it beyond five years.
This is a strategy that a number of super angel or seed firms have taken in recent years in order to maintain stakes in fast-growing companies.
You can hold down either trigger for angel or devil attacks, which is a nice way to break up combat and reward those truly fleet of finger.
Six minutes to follow the path around the pond, an additional three minutes to fly up the hillside like a delivering wraith or mercy-angel, bearing the simple gift of a coat.
Ravikant and his team select companies only if they can show some growth, an angel or founder who is a known entity, or a known advisor or colleague who endorses the company.
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Unlike a bank loan or other types of debt financing, equity capital (whether it's an angel investment or venture capital) gives someone else an ownership interest in your company.
While others are enjoying coffee or lunch, use the time to update yourself on your technology, your competitors, angel investors, or how to incorporate a new business.
Four are angel investors or venture capitalists, and two others are weighing new chief executive jobs.
Victory over Kelly would bring Casey a quarter-final against Retief Goosen or US Open champion Angel Cabrera.
If it seems worth pursuing, she will usually look for financing from angel investors or venture capitalists.
Not every entrepreneurial venture begins with a business plan, an angel round or an infusion of capital of any kind.
But little is known or understood about the angel market, largely because it consists of individuals who make investments quietly.
At that point, most people would be happy to retire to a tropical locale and maybe dabble in angel investing or something.
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But we would be fools to presume that once an individual goes to work for the federal government that he or she becomes an angel.
You need to be talking to angel investors or venture capitalists.
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For instance, some women who have teamed up with angel investors or venture capitalists are likely to have diluted their ownership stake in their businesses to raise financing that will eventually result in their owning a more valuable piece of a much bigger company.
If your product or service is fairly unique, an angel will want to see you've secured the patents, copyrights or trademarks to protect your intellectual property.
This can take many forms: for example, government assistance or even help from an angel investor.
Of course, many seasoned entrepreneurs with proven track records are and will remain able to get funding with little more than a back-of-the-envelope, or informal, pitch, angel investors say.
So if an inventor shows her invention working at a trade show, demonstrates it for an angel investor group or offers a single unit for sale, it will not receive a patent even if she applies the next day.
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