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    How to Find Investors Through LinkedIn

    The professional social network has become a tool for identifying and pitching investors.
    by Michelle Goodman Jan 01, 2015 2 minutes
    Source: Nan Palmero | Flickr

    Dave Gowel has raised $3 million in the three years since he started RockTech, a Cambridge, Mass.-based enterprise-training platform for cloud technologies. Of the 29 angel investors he’s brought onboard, all have one thing in common: “Every investor relationship I have was influenced by LinkedIn,” says Gowel, RockTech’s CEO. 

    “A compelling example of this came when one of my investors listed his affiliation with RockTech on LinkedIn, and

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