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I know of several angel investors, but it all depends on what your product is, and who your ideal investor would be. Why don't you send me a message and we'll chat? I'm one of the 3 guest bloggers at Go BIG Network.
It seems like you can make progress without additional funding, just at a slower rate. Is your partner really committed to the project? Asking an angel to pay development salary for a co-founder may be a difficult sales pitch. It sounds like your partner may have lost faith and is now asking for money. You are much better off to proceed more slowly and not go into debt or waste time on trying to raise funds until you have something that you can sell, so that you can use additional funds to accelerate revenue. That being said there are several pitch events a month in Silicon Valley you can go to and meet Angels and VC's.
http://www.sdforum.com/ see Venture Funding SIG
http://www.svase.org/ see "First Impressions" event; also you might check out the Startup-U events, it's normally a chance to meet a VC or Angel.
http://www.startupepicenter.com/ runs pitch events (with training) periodically
http://www.angelsforum.com/ have a monthly pitch event (here an introduction probably helps)
http://www.sandhillangels.com/ have a monthly event (again an introduction helps)
All of these are either free or a nominal charge. I wouldn't pay any "introduction fees or percentages" and I would not pay any "beauty contest fees" (e.g. Kieretsu forum charge $3-5,000 to present).
Our firm does not help with fund raising, our focus is on early customers and early revenue, but please feel free to contact me if you have additional questions.
Sean Murphy http://www.skmurphy.com/
>He does all the development and thus our progress was stalled. My suggestion: Learn to code.
- 2 hackers: Work your butts off, keep design simple and do it yourself until you have something functional. Then worry about finding a designer.
- 1 hacker & 1 designer: One of you will be doing most of the (important) work. Guess which one? Frankly, I don't know how people pull this off. If you can, more power to you.
- 2 designers: What are you doing here? Go get 2 jobs.
good luck with it. maybe look for another coder to helpout would be cheaper.
This post got gscott the money he was asking for... you could try doing the same. http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=73346
@Sean Murphy. Thanks for all the links. It helps a lot.
@jmtame I've sent you a message through GoBigNetwork.
@rakuten How do you contact another member here? Can't find your email on your profile page.
My email is
sayaww@gmail.com
and our project page is
This post got gscott the money he was asking for... you could try doing the same. http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=73346
I love the people saying learn to code. Not everyone is a programmer, Ok us coders might find it easy but not everyone else does. also not everyone is using ruby and this might have been written in C++ so learning coding ain't going to help anytime soon :p good luck with it. maybe look for another coder to helpout would be cheaper.
Anyone.
It is a question of motivation and effort, not intelligence.
I love the people saying learn to code. Not everyone is a programmer, Ok us coders might find it easy but not everyone else does. also not everyone is using ruby and this might have been written in C++ so learning coding ain't going to help anytime soon :p good luck with it. maybe look for another coder to helpout would be cheaper.
Anyone can code. Anyone. It is a question of motivation and effort, not intelligence.