Why Do Angels Invest?

The team at Venture 360 recently dug into the data behind $16.5M in Angel-invested capital. The results are as surprising as they are insightful. Apparently Angel investors don’t always practice what they preach…
Click here to check out the report summary and get a link to the full, free, 24-page report if you want to [...]

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Startup Weekend Teams Up With Venture 360

The crew at Venture 360 (a North venture…) has just teamed up with Marc and Clint over at Startup Weekend to bring their throngs of ambitious entrepreneurs some valuable insight and to support Startup Weekend in their mission to foster more innovation around the globe.

Startup Weekend is a 54 hour startup event that provides networking, [...]

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Most Investors Prefer Facts Over Fiction

A Venture 360 Report builds a communication bridge between investors and entrepreneurs. It’s pretty simple, by combining an analytical view of a business and a standardized report we enable more intelligent conversations.
To see how a Venture 360 Report can make you a more effective and efficient entrepreneur or investor, please go to www.venture360report.com.

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INNOVATE OR DIE: 10 WAYS TO BUILD YOUR BRAND…A CASKET

To survive and thrive in today’s economy, it takes a lot more than just clinging to yesterday’s strategies and hoping for the best. It’s quite simple really, the future will belong to those brands that can rethink and re-imagine their core strategies. But those that fail to embrace change and take intelligent risks, will likely [...]

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5 Lifelines For Your Startup

North was recently quoted dropping some knowledge in the article, 5 Lifelines For You Startup on Entrepreneur.com.
Here’s an excerpt:
Evan Solida was stuck.
Solida, founder of Cerevellum, which sells digital rearview mirrors for bicycles, had posted his business plan on several websites promising to connect him with investors in exchange for a few hundred dollars.

Time passed. Investors never [...]

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FAIL: 12 WAYS TO BLOW YOUR INVESTOR PITCH

While there’s no shortage of reading about “how to pitch for funding”, from what we can tell, a lot of what’s written isn’t soaking in too well. So we thought we’d try a more unconventional approach with our latest constructive prose. Hot of the presses is FAIL: 12 Ways To Blow Your Investor Pitch.
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Congrats DealBase!

DealBase.com, an online database devoted to aggregating hotel deals and packages, has secured $1 million in Series A funding from angel investors including Russ Siegelman, a partner at Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers. Read the rest of the good news on TechCrunch.
The entire North team would like to congratulate Sam Shank, CEO of DealBase.com, as [...]

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Venture 360 Analysis Software & Report Output

Sneak Peek

It’s time we let everyone get a glimpse of what we’ve been working so hard on for the past few months.  This is the official roll-out of the new software tool used by our in-house analyst team which, due to popular demand, is now available for use by interested investment groups.  If you’re looking [...]

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North + Investors’ Circle

WHERE PROFIT MEETS PURPOSE

North is proud to announce that we’ve been selected by Investors’ Circle to perform our Venture 360 due diligence on their finalists at their Spring Venture Fair in San Francisco, April 19-21.

Over 350 companies applied to present at this week’s event, but only 21 innovative companies were selected to pitch their business [...]

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Speed Pitching Produces Few Hits

Nearly every major funding website boasts that in addition to their “connecting” services, they also host entrepreneur speed pitching events. Speed pitching? It doesn’t work for finding a soul mate, so why would it work for finding a high quality venture investment? Let’s face it, true understanding of a venture, the management team, and the [...]

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