Sometimes funny things happen in the world of angel investing and entrepreneurial companies. I was contacted by Andrew Sheludenkov of the publication Medium who asked to translate and repost one of my blog posts, the one on JoyLux. I granted permission. Since I don’t speak Ukrainian, I hope the translation is accurate!
Since I find …
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Xiao Wang founded Boundless (www.boundless.com) in 2017 to “empower families to navigate the immigration system more confidently, rapidly, and affordably.” His family arrived in the US when he was a boy and he watched his parents struggle and spend a lot of time and money on their green card application.
Xiao saw an opportunity to transform the immigration …
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Today 
I saw an ad that said, “buy more, save more.” It made me think of an experience from about 1987, when I was VP & GM for Northern & Eastern Europe for AT&T and leading a USAID mission on telecommunication to Tashkent, Uzbekistan, then a part of the Soviet Union.
One of the speakers I recruited was the head …
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Colette Courtion founded Joylux (www.joylux.com) in 2016 after she became a mother and experienced both the joys of motherhood and the consequence of incontinence that results from childbearing. She had previously founded a skincare company and decided to apply some of the technologies that help skin look younger to a more intimate health problem—sexual health—that not only is …
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The COVID-19 Pandemic has caused every startup to assess how to survive and plan to thrive in the “new normal.” No one knows what the new normal will look like, but based on other jolts to our economic system, we do know that life after this pandemic will be different than life before – at least for a while. Just …
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Author: Dan Rosen
To: The Angel Community
After publishing my companion piece, “How Startups Survive the COVID-19 Economic Crisis,” I have received a number of comments about how this impacts angels and angel investing. Here are my thoughts.
Unlike VCs, who …
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Author: Dan Rosen
To: All angel investors and their portfolio CEOs
Being trained as a scientist, and having lived through several investment cycles, I’ve been asked to share my perspective on the financial impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on startups.
I firmly believe that the human and societal impact of COVID-19
will be extreme, …
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I really wanted Jet.Com to work. When they announced the service as an alternative to Amazon, I thought that a new kind of competition would be good for the industry. Unfortunately, my experience shows that great ideas and intentions that are not ready for prime time = just a terrible customer experience that appears doomed.
Jet.com offers a membership service …
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Like many animal lovers, my first reaction was outrage at the senseless death of Cecil the lion by Walter Palmer. I let my first draft post that reflected my outrage subside into thought – I just couldn’t understand why a successful American dentist would feel the need to take the life of a beautiful African creature. Then I learned that …
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8 June 2014
The Honorable Mary Jo White, Chairman
US Securities and Exchange Commission
100 F St. NE
Washington, DC 20549
RE: Accredited Investor Definition
Dear Chairman White:
As a board member of the Angel Capital Association (ACA) and the Chair of the Seattle Alliance of Angels, I urge the Commission to protect angel funding to ensure …
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