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While he’s taking off for the Labor Day holiday, Colin Brown from Slated Editorial Director has shared with Indiewire an old — but valuable — post from the Slated Filmonomics blog: it’s a list of seven tips for filmmakers to keep in mind as they try to look for funding from investors, ripped from Silicon Valley’s own tips for investors.
In The Wall Street Journal, Slated was described as “Soho House for film financing, due to the requirement that you must be invited to be a member.” Another point of reference could just as easily have been AngelList. For those unfamiliar with this game-changing website, AngelList is a powerful funding vehicle that connects startups with a who’s who of early stage venture capitalists, high-net-worth individuals and angel investors. Simply put: AngelList is to Silicon Valley what Slated is to the film industry.
The parallels are close enough that AngelList serves as an instructional laboratory for anyone wanting to know how best to take advantage of their presence on crowdfunding platforms. It helps answer the first question asked by many newly enlisted industry executives still getting their heads around social leverage as a film financing tool, namely: ‘what do we do now?’
AngelList is a transformation-in-the-making that points the way forward for other long cloistered industries including entertainment. While the basic principles for investing in startups remains pretty much the same, the tactics have been evolving fast. You could say the same about film investing. Every few months, in fact, AngelList inspires a revised set of behavioral tips and conduct codes for successful fundraising, smarter investing and more effective profile-building in that particular sandbox. Here are links to five such lists:
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