Tune into Part II of our exclusive fundfindr.tv interview with prominent Angel Fund manager Basil Peters to uncover key insights on the difference between angel investors and VCs. Basil walks me, Danita Harty, through what both investors want to see and clarifies the confusion between the two groups.

The reality of investing someone else’s money vs. your own means that VCs are looking for lots of control while angels offer a kinder, gentler approach and often at an earlier stage. Find out why the first term sheet you see from a VC is not the deal you will be living by.

Like to get your pitch reviewed by Basil or other expert investors like W Media Ventures Boris Wertz? Simply register and upload it to fundfindr.com and you may be selected for a free but priceless pitch review. A big congratulations to Boris for his great exit in Amazon’s acquisition of Abebooks!

Check out Basil’s first fundfindr.tv interview on Secrets to the Vault here. For other great resources on Angel Investing best practices for entrepreneurs and investors, make sure to check out Basil’s blog, including his latest post on how to structure your start-up the right way - Start-ups - the Essential To-do list.

Look for pitch reviews coming this week of these recent pitches that were pitched in public on fundfindr.com - Volo Innovations, WOMMP, Ideabreaker and Ruboss. Also reviewed on our private VANTEC channel were PeerFX, HulaVision and Letsgofordinner.com. All pitch reviews for the “public” pitches will help qualify competitors for the Expert Pick semi-finalist selections for The Pitchies with over $20,000 in prizes. You can also invite your friends to vote your pitch in to the big November wrap-up competition by sharing your pitch in the People’s Choice competition.

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Well, some of you figured out that our post and news release yesterday on World Celebrity Idol had a bit of hype built into it given the April 1st release - if you figured it out, good for you especially our url, world rent lol .com. As we said, we were having fun but we are very serious about our mandate to find the next rising business stars and connect them to the investment community. We had a great time launching at the Massive Tech Show and kudos to Lindsey Smith and the whole team for a massive event. Great to connect with many small businesses, start-ups and service providers and the reaction to fundfindr was awesome - thank you! Look for our video coverage coming soon!

A couple rising stars we met that we’d like to bring to your attention are Florence Leung of PeerFX and Colleen Nystedt of Movieset.

Florence is in early stages but has a great concept of democratizing foreign-exchange and is now looking for angel investment - we recommend you check PeerFX out as a great opportunity and we will have her pitch on fundfindr.com very soon. Check out PeerFX on Dragon’s Den in this video - they got the deal but later turned it down because of the valuation. As we stated in our post on Dragon Jim Treliving, we’ll be sharing some other Dragon’s Den insights in future posts.

Colleen is further along the venture dating process, having raised approximately $1Million but is now at the VC round. We are impressed by the concept of a fan-based community that brings them behind-the-scenes and engages them in a dialogue with producers before the film’s release. Well done Colleen and we will look forward to highlighting your progress and potential to the investment community.

fundfindr.com is all about sharing the next Business Idols with investors and the rest of the fundfindr community. Stay tuned, compete, comment and enjoy the fun and let’s help create some big wins.

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