They’re called private equity investors for a reason. In the world of angel investing, the sophisticated bunch are predominantly equity investors — investors who make money on exits. If they don’t see an exit, they don’t get in. Legendary angel investor Ron Conway, for example, said he won’t invest if he can’t think of five [...]
In University Technology Transfer: Smart Managers Do Creative Deals, we visited two technology transfer models; learned how technology transfer deals were managed in the past; reported why startup companies are a powerful launching vehicle for new discoveries; and inspected some of the newer ways forward-thinking technology transfer managers are using to construct creative deals. According [...]
There are two models in the field of technology transfer, says one veteran angel investor. Innovations from research labs are either transferred to established corporations or startup ventures. The goal is to transform innovative technologies into marketable products and applications to promote economic growth and/or create money-making opportunities. About 80 percent of lab technologies are [...]
It’s no secret that investors fight head over heels for sizzling deals and promising entrepreneurs to increase odds of success and potential returns. But when demand for quality deals exceeds supply, you better come up with exclusive, creative, or effective ways to lure the Steve Jobses of tomorrow. How to compete for hot deals? Are [...]
In Part 1, M&A Exits: Sell-Side M&A Process, we briefly discussed IPO and M&A exits for angel investors while John J. Maalouf, one of the “Nation’s Top 10 International Trade & Finance Lawyers,” walked us through the sell-side M&A process for a small fictitious company called AppleSoft, whose valuation lies below US$50 million. According to [...]
According to GigaOm’s Om Malik, angel investors are thinking twice about funding pure-play startups – single-platform focused companies whose profits often bypass investors and developers and go home with platform owners. When hot startups enter the market, entrepreneurs go crazy trying to discover new ways to capitalize on their success. Think Twitter. Think Facebook. Malik [...]
Sophisticated investors always think about exits before they invest. “Does the company have the potential to go public or become an attractive acquisition target?” If not, they’d take their money elsewhere. Going public or IPO means the company raises money by offering stocks to the general public – you know, those stocks that anyone can [...]
We recently dived into Joshua Schachter’s “Ask Me Anything” at HackerNews to learn more about the founder of Delicious and the way he invests as an angel investor. He calls himself a “junior” angel who’s trying to figure out if he wants to become a professional investor someday, but the way he thinks and vets [...]
Delicious founder Joshua Schachter recently did an AMA (ask me anything) over at HackerNews. Only halfway down the discussions and you’ll realize that Schachter, a self-proclaimed “junior” angel who’s trying to figure out whether he wants to become a professional investor someday, vets deals much like those who’ve got decades of experience under their belt. [...]
Throughout history, innovations have transformed industries and turned impossibilities into realities. Technologies are key enablers of these transformations. In Mind to Market: Commercializing University Technologies (Part 1), we learned that technologies and inventions, when successfully translated into marketable products and applications, can have significant impact on the economy and create money-making opportunities. But with opportunities [...]
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