Seed Capital From Angel Investors: Corey Silva, Assistant Manager, River Valley Investors (Part 4)

By guest authors Irina Patterson and Candice Arnold Irina: How do you swap deals with other angel groups? By e-mail? Corey: That was how it was done years ago, and it’s still done that way, sometimes but there’s a Web platform called AngelSoft, and that makes it really easy. There are features right inside AngelSoft,

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Seed Capital From Angel Investors: Corey Silva, Assistant Manager, River Valley Investors (Part 3)

By guest authors Irina Patterson and Candice Arnold Irina: Do you have any particular industry focus? Corey: I know a lot of angel groups are focused, if not on one industry, then maybe on just two or three, because their membership pool is really drawn from those space. In Boston, that’s often the case. The

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Vision India 2020 Book Review: ThinkChange India

Vinay Ganti with ThinkChange India recently spoke with Sramana Mitra about her book Vision India 2020. You can find the “Sramana Mitra wants to help you transform India into an innovation hotbed” interview here. In a separate review of the book he says: “Very few books attempt to ‘show not tell’ what an ecosystem of innovation

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1M/1M Strategy Roundtable For Entrepreneurs On Thursday, June 17

The next free online 1M/1M Strategy Roundtable for Entrepreneurs will be held this Thursday, June 17, 2010, starting at 11 a.m. EDT/8 a.m. PDT/8:30 p.m. IST.  TiE New Delhi is co-hosting this roundtable, so their members will be presenting their businesses. All are welcome to attend.  You can find more details and register here.

The 1M1M Deal Radar 2010: Fantage

Fantage (short for “Fantastic Age”) is a virtual world created specifically for young computer users from about age 6 to age 14 but is accessible to everyone. Developed as a flash game, this virtual playground requires no download. The site offers “towns” to explore through a user’s avatar, games to play, and ways to chat

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Artist As An Entrepreneur Photographer: Tom Mangelsen’s Images of Nature (Part 6)

SM: So your father was not necessarily supportive of your photography endeavor? TM: It’s more like he did not necessarily understand my choices. I left the family business when all three brothers stayed in it in one form or another.

Seed Capital From Angel Investors: Corey Silva, Assistant Manager, River Valley Investors (Part 2)

By guest authors Irina Patterson and Candice Arnold Corey: That’s how it went from there, and it developed. I worked part time for my brother for a couple of years, and then I ended up moving out to western Massachusetts to work full time for him. We were doing consulting work for entrepreneurs. We learned

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Seed Capital From Angel Investors: Corey Silva, Assistant Manager, River Valley Investors (Part 1)

By guest authors Irina Patterson and Candice Arnold This is the sixth interview in our series on seed financing and angel investing. Corey Silva dropped into the angel universe by chance after being a serious rock n’ roll musician in his early days; he has written over 120 original songs. As fate would have it,

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