By Staff Writer – Boonsri Dickinson (@boonspoon)

I was at Dogpatch Labs yesterday and I could feel the excitement in the air. Young entrepreneurs were sitting in open tables, typing on their computers. The  guys running the dating service, Good Crush, were busy folding T-Shirts and posters.

Mike Green of Collecta welcomed me into this start-up wonderland. I finally got to meet David Lifson of Postling in person. Lifson began talking about the start-up community in New York and said small amounts of funding are available for companies who need it.

Where’s a good place to start looking for investors? Try Venture Hacks, a blog for entrepreneurs written by Nivi and Naval.

Venture Hacks created an AngelList, a source that includes some big-time angels. Once you find an angel you want to pitch to, you can email them (if they allow it), use your own network to get to them through Facebook/LinkedIn, or send a 150-word pitch to Venture Hacks for the possibility of them connecting you to the right person. Or you can try all three strategies of attack, so you’ll have the best shot of getting a meeting with the angels.

Any entrepreneur should try Venture Hack’s new StartupList. Each week, Venture Hacks send an email to angels on the AngelList, highlighting the top three start-ups who have asked for intros. This StartupList should help breakdown the barrier between entrepreneurs and investors.

Venture Hacks wrote on their blog:

I’m psyched because StartupList is already working. We released it on Twitter a few weeks ago and 9 investors like Mike Hirshland (Polaris), Matt Mullenweg (Founder of WordPress), and David Cohen (Techstars) have already asked for intros to 7 early-stage startups and counting.

So if you are a start-up owner in need of funding, write up your short elevator pitch and send it to Venture Hacks. You never know who might be interested in pumping money into your company. Hopefully, you’ll have more luck than this poor cop who tried to play the lottery today and walked away empty-handed.

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