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 [...]
Rich: China has had a history of not being that open as a society and as a government. Any issues related to the Chinese government when it comes to the mobile industry itself? Do they not only regulate it, but also get involved in monitoring or blocking calls, or any of that kind of stuff? [...]
Mobile will replace the computer in China. “To give you an order of magnitude, Chinese people exchange about 70 billion short messages – in a single month,” says Bruno Bensaid. Based on the number of subscribers alone, China is definitely the number one mobile market in the world. The Chinese people “are actually much earlier [...]
Rich: Things have changed so fast that it’s hard to even keep up, not only with technology but also economic changes. As you talk to groups, give presentations, lectures, and so forth, what are some of the pressing questions and challenges that you’re hearing from the entrepreneurial world out there? * This is an excerpt [...]
Rich: In your book, Early Exits, you urge angel investors to invest in capital efficient companies. Is that what Cisco is talking about? * This is an excerpt from an interview with Dr. Basil Peters. Download full report at Basil Peters Debunks Outright Lies About Startup Exits and M&As. Basil: Yes. Rich: What are those [...]
There are some dangerous misperceptions, myths, and outright lies that are commonly told in the industry that lead boards and startup management teams completely down the wrong path, Dr. Basil Peters, an exit strategist, technology angel investor, and angel fund manager for Fundamental Technologies II, tells Venture Hype. He continues: I’m dismayed by how often [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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