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		<description><![CDATA[<a href="http://syamsurian.com/tech/the-venture-hacks-startuplist-helps-fledgling-startups-pitch-top-angel-investors.html"><img align="left" hspace="5" width="150" src="http://syamsurian.com/wp-content/plugins/wp-o-matic/cache/462fb_angelwing.jpg" class="alignleft wp-post-image tfe" alt="" title="" /></a><br/>If you&#8217;re a startup looking for some early angel investments, you probably have a list of people you&#8217;d love to work with mapped out in your mind. Unfortunately, there&#8217;s also a good chance that you have absolutely no idea how to get their attention and pitch them. Today Venture Hacks is launching a new project [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<br/><p><img class="shot2" src="http://syamsurian.com/wp-content/plugins/wp-o-matic/cache/462fb_angelwing.jpg" alt="462fb angelwing The Venture Hacks StartupList Helps Fledgling Startups Pitch Top Angel Investors"  title="The Venture Hacks StartupList Helps Fledgling Startups Pitch Top Angel Investors" />If you&#8217;re a startup looking for some early angel investments, you probably have a list of people you&#8217;d love to work with mapped out in your mind.  Unfortunately, there&#8217;s also a good chance that you have absolutely no idea how to get their attention and pitch them.  Today <a href="http://venturehacks.com/">Venture Hacks</a> is launching a new project that may help with that.  Dubbed <a href="http://venturehacks.com/startuplist">StartupList</a>, Venture Hacks will start sending a weekly Email digest featuring three startup pitches that will get Emailed to some of Silicon Valley&#8217;s most respected angel investors.  Venture Hacks founder Babak Nivi likens it to a DailyCandy for startups.</p>
<p>The project is a followup to the Venture Hacks <a href="http://venturehacks.com/articles/angellist">AngelList</a>, which launched yesterday.  AngelList is a basic directory of over 80 established angel investors, including their all-important contact info (or, at least, the best people to get a reference through), what the investor looks for in a startup, and other key information.  These members of the AngelList will all be receiving the weekly StartupList, which obviously makes it a huge boon to any startups that land a spot on the list.</p>
<p>Nivi says that the system is already working — after an initial release on Twitter they&#8217;ve had nine angel investors ask for intros to the startups, including David Cohen (Techstars), Mike Hirshland (Polaris), and WordPress founder Matt Mullenweg.</p>
<p>To get on the list, you&#8217;ll have to apply through this <a href="http://venturehacks.com/startuplist">site</a>.  Your pitch will be judged by the two members of the Venture Hacks team (Nivi and Naval), who will be looking for traction, &#8217;social proof&#8217;, and a solid team (though you don&#8217;t necessarily have to be excelling in all three areas).  Your elevator pitch will have to be kept to around 150 words, and you need to have a minimum viable product (as <a href="http://venturehacks.com/articles/minimum-viable-product">defined</a> by the Venture Hacks guys).</p>
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