All Entries in the "Almost Angel" Category
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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. [...]
Shark Tank (Part 1): 5 Things the Show Gets Wrong
[Guest post by Brant Bukowsky, the founder of GrowthPartner.com -- a firm that provides angel investment and online marketing expertise to emerging companies. A serial entrepreneur, Bukowsky and his team have built three Inc. 500 companies in the last five years. He blogs at Angel Investment Journal.] This is the first in a two-part series. [...]
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 [...]
Martin Zwilling of Startup Professionals: Angel Investing ABC
When it comes to startup advice for tech entrepreneurs, twitterati StartupPro (a.k.a. Martin Zwilling) will probably pop up your mind. Over the past 30 years, Zwilling has led technical business transformations, held a wide range of tech management roles, as well as done due diligence and funding analysis for investors. Though he does little investing, [...]
Angel Investing: Women Want On The Roller Coaster Too
Do women have the guts to wear a halo? The stereotype says no: Women want to play it safe with their money. They just aren’t as adventurous as men when it comes to investing – and that means most will shy away from becoming angels. It’s true women are still underrepresented in angel investing: Just [...]
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