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Profiting From Promising Startups: Improving the Odds (Part 1)
You’re wealthy and wired. You just read Become an Angel Investor in 2010: An HBS Framework and 2010: The Ultimate Buyers’ Market for Investor. You’re getting antsy. You’re ready to invest in a startup. You’re ready to tap into your Rolodex and pave the road to success for any startups that cross your desk.
Whoa. Slow [...]
Write a Check To Women in Tech
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 by Yahoo in [...]
Thealzel Lee of VANTEC: Backing Life Sciences Companies
What’s it like to back a life sciences company? What should investors expect before investing in the bio/health sectors? Who’s entitled to be called an “angel investor”?
These are some of the questions Thealzel Lee will answer in this interview.
Lee is the senior partner of Rocket Builders, a management consulting firm that sponsors Vancouver Angel Technology [...]
Rob Delman of Golden Seeds: Due Diligence Tips for Angels
In Part 1 of the interview, Rob Delman, managing director of Golden Seeds New York, told us the benefits of investing in women-led ventures, shared his lessons learned and pointed out a critical term in a term sheet that many might have overlooked. Today, Delman the “Golden Dude” talks more about due diligence, an area [...]
Rob Delman: Remove nepotism from investment opportunity
A month ago just before Christmas, Rob Delman of Golden Seeds (aka the “Golden Dude”) played Santa and dropped a gift packed with pitch preparation tips (for angels) down our chimney. We loved it and so did you. It’s a given – we’re very greedy when it comes to angel investing tips and insights. So [...]
2010: The Ultimate Buyer’s Market for Investors
No doubt, 2009 was a year of dieting and fat-trimming for startups. But those that have conquered the financial tsunami will come out a lean, mean, revenue-ramping machine.
“2010 should be the ultimate buyers’ market for investors with cash to spend because entrepreneurs who tightened their belts last year cannot do so indefinitely,” Steve Fredrick and [...]
Become an Angel Investor in 2010: An HBS Framework
It’s true that the global economic downturn has clipped many an angel’s wings. Recalling our previous post, Interesting Finding on Angel Investments in 2009, total angel investments in the first half of 2009 stood at US$9.1 billion, representing a decline of 27% over the first half of 2008.
The gloomy economic environment and depressing exit opportunities [...]
Startups Creation and Tech Transfer
What’s technology transfer? Broadly speaking, it’s the process of transferring technology, knowledge, or scientific findings from research labs to commercial sectors.
Continuing last week’s conversation on tech-led economic development and research park startup companies, Brian Darmody talks about tech transfer models, the role startups play in facilitating tech transfer, favorite company success story and more.
Darmody was [...]
Doing Due Diligence on Startup Team
Investors experienced better returns in the deals where they exercised more due diligence. Sixty-five percent of the exits with below-average time spent on due diligence reported a return that was less than their original investment. Losses occurred in only 45 percent of the deals where investors did above-average due diligence.
– Kauffman Foundation and ACEF
Ask any [...]
Do Good – Take a Look at Technology Parks Startups
Some angel investors are in it solely for the money; others are motivated to give back to the community. If you’re the type that wants to do good to the society, take a close look at research park startup companies in your region — they just might be the treasures you’ve been dying to add [...]
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