2015 in Review: Our Top 3 Entrepreneurial Resource Series
We launched the official Hyde Park Angels blog in late January with one central goal — to demystify the early-stage investment process for entrepreneurs so they could successfully navigate the process and build their companies. Since then, we’ve broken down difficult concepts like term sheets, option pools, and venture debt and provided insights into how angels make investments and the dos and don’ts of pitching. Of all of our series, we’ve hand-selected our top 3 most used and recommended. Take a look.
Cap Table Series
· How to Read and Understand a Cap Table
· How to Measure Valuation
· How Option Pools Work
Pitching Series
· Building the Perfect Pitch
· 6 Killer Mistakes to Avoid in Your Pitch
· Pitch Your Startup in 30 Seconds
· Pitching Lessons from Applying to Shark Tank
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Term Sheet Series
· Understanding Your Term Sheet Options
· How to Read an Equity Term Sheet
· 3 Key Terms in an Equity Term Sheet to Understand
· How to Read a Convertible Debt Term Sheet
· How to Understand Venture Debt
· 4 Ways to Negotiate with Investors Like a Pro
Are there entrepreneurial resources you need? Leave us your questions and recommendations in the comments section and see what we come up with in 2016.
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About Hyde Park Angels
Hyde Park Angels is transforming early-stage investing by taking a people first approach. The organization is the largest and most active angel group in the Midwest. With a membership of over 100 successful entrepreneurs, executives, and venture capitalists, the group provides critical strategic expertise to entrepreneurs and the entrepreneurial community. Nearly 40% of our members have founded a company, 88% are CEO’s, top executives or corporate board members, and 100% invest in startups. By leveraging the members’ deep and broad knowledge of multiple industries and financial capital, Hyde Park Angels has driven multiple exits and invested millions of dollars in over 40 portfolio companies that have created over hundreds of jobs in the Midwest since 2006.
About the Author
Alida Miranda-Wolff
Alida Miranda-Wolff heads up communications and strategy at Hyde Park Angels, crafting and disseminating the organization’s brand in all forms across all channels. In addition to single-handedly building HPA’s integrated communications plan and executing its core elements, Alida manages membership, partnerships, portfolio company support, and all community engagement.
Prior to joining Hyde Park Angels, Alida served in a variety of journalism, marketing, communications, and management roles, specializing in creating spreadable multimedia content for tech-enabled businesses at all stages. Alida has run several Kickstarter campaigns, including one of the most successful in Chicago history, and still mentors companies running their own campaigns.
Alida graduated Phi Beta Kappa from the University of Chicago in 2014 with multiple honors and awards. She remains active in the university of alumni network, serving on five advisory boards and committees. Alida is also a published author and poet, with two poetry chapbooks currently in print, Domestic Scenes and Tree Fingers.
