Rich: Okay, just so we can wrap up and sort of summarize this, what I’m hearing you say for the angel investment marketplace is that they need to have patience. It’s a different environment over there, and you need to be aware of the company’s legal structure. Anything else you would like to add that [...]
Talk with experienced angel investors, and you’ll realize that unless they have a trusted syndication partner across the border, proximity still matters. True, tech advancement and the falling cost of communication might have enabled investors to invest farther from home, but the effect might not be as significant as we think. After all, trust and [...]
This is a guest post by Christopher Grey, a contributor to TheStreet.com and the co-founder and CFO of CapLinked. Grey was a senior executive and partner in private equity, finance, and banking for 15 years. He was directly involved in the origination and management of billions of dollars of debt and equity investments. Other members [...]
Another brilliant guest post by Rob Delman, a professional angel investor and the managing director at Golden Seeds in New York. He’s proud to be nicknamed the “Golden Dude” by his female forum mates. I have noticed a disturbing trend lately when listening to entrepreneur pitches at various angel investor forums. The investor has a [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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. [...]
A recent article at WSJ at highlights the “explosion” of secondary marketplaces for sourcing deals, and buying and selling shares of private, venture-backed companies. The launch of InsideVenture in 2008 was the catalyst for the emergence of these secondary marketplaces. The article draws upon information gleaned from leading platforms SecondMarket and SharesPost. “[As] opposed to [...]
[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. [...]
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