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What Do Angels Want?

By Rieva Lesonsky / April 13, 2012 12:00 AM / Comments

What entrepreneur hasn't dreamed that our startup will experience the same magical beginnings as Google? In 1998, before they even incorporated, Google founders Sergey Brin and Larry Page were trying to present their concept to early-stage, or "angel" investors, with limited success. Sun Microsystems co-founder Andy Bechtolsheim was one such angel. He didn't have time to listen to their whole pitch, but wrote them a check for $100,000 anyway.

Alas, most companies don't have so easy a time. There are ways to attract these rare and beautiful creatures. You just have to know what they're looking for.  

ChubbyBrain Looks at the Demographics of ReadWriteWeb Readers' Startups

By Audrey Watters / November 8, 2010 08:30 AM / Comments

Last week, we looked at some of the statistics gleaned from ChubbyBrain's new Funding Recommendation Engine. To recap, the recommendation engine helps entrepreneurs find the rest investor match, based on the latter's previous patterns. And ChubbyBrain released the demographics from early enrollees in the program, revealing some interesting statistics about who is seeking startup funding.

But ChubbyBrain has given ReadWriteWeb an even closer look at aggregate-level data for a certain subset of that population, based on those folks who used invitations from us to sign up for the service. So how do ReadWriteWeb entrepreneurs stack up?

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