We had a great Angel Roundtable @Smart$Money in Silicon Valley on Angels Best Practices. It was moderated by Robert Scoble, Scobleizer & speakers were Jeff Pulver, Investor; Zohar Levkovitz, CoFounder Amobee; Bill Reichert, Managing Director Garage Ventures; Wayne Sutton, Founder PitchTo; Neal Strickberger, Angel Investor; Prashant Shah, Board of Directors TIE Angels; Gwen Edwards, Managing Director Golden Seeds & Kathy LaPorte, New Leaf Venture Partners.
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Funding Support for Women
Recently at the end of a long trek attempting to pitch for funding, I discovered an organization that supports funding & mentors women, Astia. I am only sorry that it was so late in my journey that I discovered them. In UK & Ireland, I found there was an old boys club when I was sourcing funding. I also found the UK to be a nation of what I termed ‘shop keepers’, having come from a background of manufacturing & trading tangible goods, they are risk averse to technology (more intangible) investments. In Silicon Valley they like to fund locals so it is more like a ‘young boys club’.