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Create a Solid Angel Investment Plan to Capitalize on Portfolio Effects
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 [...]
University Technology Transfer: Smart Managers Do Creative Deals
There are 2 models in the field of technology transfer, writes Bill Payne, a veteran angel investor and an Entrepreneur In Residence at BNZ University of Auckland Business School. 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 [...]
Angel Portfolio Strategy of Brad Feld, Will Herman, Sim Simeonov, Et Al.
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 [...]
Easiest Way to Determine How Much to Allocate to Angel Investing
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 [...]
The Perfect Pitch 2010 Competition: Pitch and Pinch
On the back of a successful 2009 conference that featured billionaire Sir Richard Branson and 43 other prominent speakers and business success stories, PerfectBusiness is orchestrating an even bigger event this year, The PerfectBusiness Summit 2010, to be held in Las Vegas at Palms Casino’s 2,500 seat concert theater on October 7 – 8. What [...]
Angel Investing as Asset Allocation Strategy: Risks, Returns, Homeruns
Got ambitions for high-payoff potentials? 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 high net [...]
Why Jason Calacanis, Will Herman, Dharmesh Shah, Et Al. Angel Invest
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 [...]
Alliott Cole of Octopus Ventures: Winning Competitive Deals
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 [...]
John J. Maalouf: How to Select M&A Advisors
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 [...]
Think Twice About Funding Pure-Play Startups
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 [...]
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