A savvy angel investor once told me that before he buys anything – whether it is a business, a house, stocks and bonds, or a lawn mower – he would first determine how he would sell it. Doing that is valuable for 2 reasons. First, it urges him to figure out whether the price of [...]
Mark Suster of GRP Partners recently wrote about why it is probably not wise for super angels to dismiss or alienate VCs. As Suster points out, “It’s fun to have a villain – less fun when you need them.” Angel Investors and VCs Eat From the Same Trough Many angel investors in this day and [...]
Thanks to the Bin 38 fiasco and the Valley’s hyperactive angel investing activities of late, industry participants were taken aback by the pessimistic findings in the angel market analysis report [PDF] for the first and second quarter of 2010, offered by the Center for Venture Research (CVR). Methinks it could be a “Chicken Little” threat [...]
Korean game maker YD Online just launched a mobile game that has the potential to evolve into a tool for identifying up-and-coming investments in the smart phone application sector. The game, appropriately named Angel’s Choice, allows the gamer to become a virtual angel investor for anything in the Apple App store inventory, according to VentureBeat. [...]
A new source of money has arrived on the venture capital scene. So-called “super angels” (or micro-venture capitalists) have upped the ante by pooling resources from multiple investors in a way that enables them to raise considerably more money than angels have in the past. US $500,000 is enough competition to annoy a VC firm [...]
Entrepreneurs are nothing if not passionate about their idea and the anticipation of launching a company based on that idea. As an angel investor, you want to see that excitement, but not at the expense of proper planning. After all, consumers won’t buy passion and you can’t use it to gauge profits and losses. Even [...]
World recession bites. Unemployment continued to grow as companies shed staff to cut costs. Hong Kong, like its industrialized brethren countries in the West, has been weighing its options of big stimulus packages to get the economy moving forward and keep people in jobs. On February 25, Financial Secretary John Tsang Chun-wah
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