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How to Find Investors Through LinkedIn

The professional social network has become a tool for identifying and pitching investors.
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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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