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		<title>“Thank You For Supporting Capitalism” and Other Investor Tales of Two Cities</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 04 May 2009 10:53:21 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[[The following is from my post today on Xconomy; follow the link to read the rest] Two weeks ago, I was in Atlanta for the annual Angel Capital Association (ACA) conference and, this past week, here in Boston for the annual National Venture Capital Association conference. Depending on whom you asked at both conferences, it [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=commonangels.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1079540&amp;post=80&amp;subd=commonangels&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>CommonAngels Welcomes New Members</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Apr 2009 09:00:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>James Geshwiler</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In addition to working with many great new companies as well as those currently in our portfolio, we have been adding new investors to our group. We are pleased to welcome four new members with a wide range of skills to evaluate and assist new ventures: Ed de Castro, Martin Flusberg, Dan Kaplan and Ajay [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=commonangels.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1079540&amp;post=61&amp;subd=commonangels&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>CommonAngels Leads Series A for inStream Media</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 30 Mar 2009 09:00:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>James Geshwiler</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[At CommonAngels, we have been running at full speed the past six months. Like everyone else, we have had heartburn about the economy. We are concerned about financial and market risks but bullish about the high-quality, dedicated teams we are collaborating with and the lower competitive risks facing them. We are working even harder with [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=commonangels.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1079540&amp;post=68&amp;subd=commonangels&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Hot Tech Companies for Angel Investing</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 30 Oct 2008 00:42:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>James Geshwiler</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s a great time to start a company and to invest in early stage tech companies. &#8220;Huh?!&#8221; you say, &#8220;Have you been stranded on a deserted island for the past month?! Just look at the markets, layoffs, and economic outlook!&#8221; Yep, I&#8217;ve got a ticker on my computer screen, and we&#8217;ve been having long discussions [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=commonangels.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1079540&amp;post=58&amp;subd=commonangels&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Part 3: Starting Up a Media Company: Growth and Acquisition</title>
		<link>http://commonangels.wordpress.com/2008/09/09/media-company-acquisition/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Sep 2008 18:16:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>James Geshwiler</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In this third and final part of our three-part series on ideas for creating successful media companies, serial media entrepreneurs and CommonAngels members Tom Burgess former CEO of Third Screen Media and Jay Habegger, founder and CEO of OwnerIQ, Inc. of Boston, MA, and I share our advice and experience about how a media company [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=commonangels.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1079540&amp;post=48&amp;subd=commonangels&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Angel Investing in Scotland</title>
		<link>http://commonangels.wordpress.com/2008/08/23/angel-investing-in-scotland/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 23 Aug 2008 10:47:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>James Geshwiler</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I just spent three days visiting with our colleagues in Edinburgh and Perth Scotland. Many of them would say they are &#8220;off the beaten path&#8221; and not as experienced as angel investors in the United States. To the contrary, being in a region with little venture capital investment, in my view, has led to serious [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=commonangels.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1079540&amp;post=44&amp;subd=commonangels&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Three Ways to Blow Your Venture Capital Round</title>
		<link>http://commonangels.wordpress.com/2008/08/21/three-ways-to-blow-your-venture-capital-round/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 21 Aug 2008 16:43:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>James Geshwiler</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Only about 1 in 100 companies that pursue venture capital money get it. Probably the worst thing you can do right after the financing is then to blow this precious resource. Yet, there is tremendous pressure to scale the company for a large market quickly. Here are the top three catastrophes I have seen first [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=commonangels.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1079540&amp;post=41&amp;subd=commonangels&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Part 2: Starting Up a Media Company: Building Credibility and Value</title>
		<link>http://commonangels.wordpress.com/2008/07/04/part-2-starting-up-a-media-company-building-credibility-and-value/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 04 Jul 2008 11:11:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>James Geshwiler</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In this second part of our three-part series on ideas for creating successful media companies, serial media entrepreneurs and CommonAngels members Tom Burgess former CEO of ThirdScreenMedia (recently sold to AOL), and Jay Habegger, founder and CEO of OwnerIQ, Inc, and I share our advice and experience about building credibility and value in new media [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=commonangels.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1079540&amp;post=30&amp;subd=commonangels&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Part 1: It&#8217;s Not All About Content; Building Media Companies that Succeed</title>
		<link>http://commonangels.wordpress.com/2008/06/20/it-takes-more-than-terrific-content-to-build-a-media-company-that-succeeds/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Jun 2008 16:03:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>James Geshwiler</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It’s an unusual week that CommonAngels doesn’t receive at least one or two business plans for web-based media companies—businesses that produce information and entertainment in one or more consumable formats using advertising, subscription fees, or pay-per use as the revenue model in contrast to businesses that are based entirely on direct selling of a service or product. Entrepreneurs who start up media companies almost always recognize the need for the information they are providing. It is okay to be in love with the content to start, but then how do you make it useful?  We asked two of our members, Tom Burgess and Jay Habegger to roundtable with us as a way to share their advice and experience about starting up a media company. <img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=commonangels.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1079540&amp;post=28&amp;subd=commonangels&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>What&#8217;s the Next Big Thing?</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 14 May 2008 17:48:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>James Geshwiler</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Microsoft&#8217;s Don Dodge and blogger of &#8220;the Next Big Thing&#8221; and I hosted a call-in talk show today for the Massachusetts Technology Leadership Council&#8217;s entrepreneurship cluster on exactly that topic. One of our key takeaways was that often the enemy is us in failing to build the next BIG thing and selling out too early. [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=commonangels.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1079540&amp;post=27&amp;subd=commonangels&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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