Talk with experienced angel investors, and you’ll realize that unless they have a trusted syndication partner across the border, proximity still matters. True, tech advancement and the falling cost of communication might have enabled investors to invest farther from home, but the effect might not be as significant as we think. After all, trust and [...]
This is the final installment of a series on asset allocation strategies for angel investors. Please read Part 1, 2, 3, and 4 here: Angel Investing as Asset Allocation Strategy (1): Risks, Returns, Homeruns explains why you may want to allocate a portion of your investable assets to angel investing; discusses risks and returns of [...]
This is Part 4 of a series on angel investment asset allocation strategies. Please read Part 1, 2, and 3 here: Angel Investing as Asset Allocation Strategy (1): Risks, Returns, Homeruns explains why you may want to allocate a portion of your investable assets to angel investing; discusses risks and returns of angel investing; and [...]
This is Part 3 of a series on asset allocation strategies for angel investors. Please read Part 1 and Part 2 through the links below: Angel Investing as Asset Allocation Strategy (1): Risks, Returns, Homeruns explains why you may want to allocate a portion of your investable assets to angel investing, discusses risks and returns [...]
In Angel Investing as Asset Allocation Strategy: Risks, Returns, Homeruns, we reviewed why angel investing isn’t for the faint of hearts. The risks involved can be quite overwhelming. For the ambitious bunch, though, it’s difficult to resist the attractive payoffs offered by angel investing. If we want to tap into the lucrative potentials and make [...]
Got ambitions for risks and high-payoff investments? Allocate a portion of your investable capital to angel investing, a form of alternative investments that offer high risk, high return opportunities. William S. Podd, executive director of Landmark Angels, suggests, “Angel investing, with its historical high risk/high reward strategy, can provide an opportunity for significant returns for [...]
Got balls, got money, and madly in love with promising startups? You’re destined to start your journey on angel investing! Think about it. You invest your own money and report to no one but yourself. Cut a check if you like; close the checkbook if you don’t. You always have the final say ‘cos Golden [...]
Not long ago “women” and “technology” meant a secretary with a typewriter composing her boss’s memo. Times have changed. Now, not only are women running businesses, they are starting them. And they aren’t sticking with cosmetics or flowers or anything else traditionally “female.” Ning was co-founded by a woman. So was Flickr, which was bought [...]
This is Part 3 of our quest to answer a reader’s question on dilution. The reader writes – How do you prevent being washed out as you keep pro-rata and the numbers get increasingly bigger? Suppose you invest $200k for 25%. The venture then raises $5m, so to keep pro rata you do $1.25m of [...]
A reader recently asked about dilution and we decided to answer it in 3 parts. Part 1 looks at dilution in an up round; this part examines dilution in a down round; and Part 3 goes over some of the measures you can take to minimize the impact and likelihood of dilution. Here’s the question: [...]
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