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2016 Hyde Park Angels & 1871 Entrepreneurial Education Series

Hyde Park Angels is bringing together successful, influential entrepreneurs and investors to teach you everything you need to know about early-stage investment for the second year in a row. Attend all four programs and walk away with a thorough understanding of the early-stage investment cycle from start to finish or pick and choose program to […]

January 5, 2016 By Alida Miranda-Wolff

2015 in Review: The 4 Most Important Lessons from the Entrepreneurial Education Series

2015 in Review: The 4 Most Important Lessons from the Entrepreneurial Education Series In March of this year, we launched our Entrepreneurial Education Series, a series that takes entrepreneurs through the early-stage investment from start to finish. We explored every nearly relevant funding topic, including what makes a startup investable, how to find investors, how […]

December 22, 2015 By Alida Miranda-Wolff

2015 in Review: Our Top 3 Entrepreneurial Resource Series

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 […]

December 15, 2015 By Alida Miranda-Wolff

The Hyde Park Angels Partner Network

The Hyde Park Angels Partner Network is a comprehensive network of businesses, venture capitalists and community partners that collaborate with Hyde Park Angels to provide entrepreneurs the relationships and resources they need to be successful. So what does that mean for you? In a nutshell, you have access to business expertise, services, resources, and relationships […]

July 28, 2015 By Alida Miranda-Wolff

Early-Stage Investment 101

We launched “Early-Stage Investment 101,” the second program of our four-part early-stage investment education series for entrepreneurs in collaboration with partner 1871 and series sponsor The Wall Street Journallast week. The event brought together powerhouse entrepreneurs and investors Sach Chitnis (Jump Capital), Aashish Dalal (ParkWhiz), Rishi Shah (ContextMedia), Ira Weiss (Hyde Park Venture Partners, Chicago […]

June 23, 2015 By Alida Miranda-Wolff

Announcing Early-Stage Investment 101

Register Today In the second program of our four-part Entrepreneurial Education Series in partnership with 1871, Early-Stage Investment 101, we will pull back the curtain on the investment cycle to teach you the in’s and out’s of raising a round. You’ll walk away from the session having learned: · The differences between funding stages (seed, […]

May 19, 2015 By Alida Miranda-Wolff

Hyde Park Angels & 1871 Entrepreneurial Education Series

Hyde Park Angels is bringing together successful, influential entrepreneurs and investors to teach you everything you need to know about early-stage investment. Attend all four programs and walk away with a thorough understanding of the early-stage investment cycle from start to finish or pick and choose programs to supplement existing knowledge. In either case, you […]

March 3, 2015 By Alida Miranda-Wolff

Hyde Park Angels Teams up with 1871 and The Wall Street Journal to Launch Entrepreneurial Education Series

Chicago, IL– February 17–Hyde Park Angels is launching a four-part early-stage investment education series for entrepreneurs of all levels in collaboration with partner 1871 and series sponsor The Wall Street Journal.The Entrepreneurial Education Series will consist of four panels headed up by the best and brightest entrepreneurs and investors in the Midwest, which will be […]

February 18, 2015 By Alida Miranda-Wolff

Public Good Software Raises $1.6M to Revolutionize Online Philanthropy

Chicago, IL — January 27, 2015 — Public Good Software, Inc. is expanding its revolutionary online donations marketplace, PublicGood.com, with $1.6M in seed funding from an A-list of Chicago and Silicon Valley angel investors. Chicago’s Hyde Park Angels; Firestarter Fund; Matt Mullenweg, founder of WordPress; Chuck Templeton, founder of OpenTable; Mike Sands, former COO/CMO of Orbitz and current CEO […]

January 30, 2015 By Alida Miranda-Wolff