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Profiting From Promising Startups: Improving the Odds (Part 2)
Angel investing is risky and potentially very rewarding. You already know that. Even if your primary intention is to encourage the entrepreneurial spirits in your community, it’d be nice to make money from your “semi-charitable” investments too. If you don’t expect to make money, you’re a philanthropist, not an angel investor.
Why are some investors more [...]
Write a Check To Women in Tech
Not long ago “women” and “technology” meant a secretary with a typewriter composing her boss’s memo.
Times have changed.
Now, not only are women running businesses, they are starting them. And they aren’t sticking with cosmetics or flowers or anything else traditionally “female.”
Ning was co-founded by a woman. So was Flickr, which was bought by Yahoo in [...]
Investing in iPhone Startups (Part 2): The VC Way
We’ve looked at the stats and prospects of iPhone, iPod Touch, and App Store in Investing in iPhone Startups (Part 1): The Prospects. The numbers are encouraging and the downloads are downright inspiring (3 billion and growing with no end in sight).
BUT, barriers to entry is low and there are heaps of other issues to [...]
Investing in iPhone Startups (Part 1): The Prospects
Mobile platforms are where a significant portion of the computing world is headed, and the iPhone and iPhone OS have been significantly responsible for that shift.
As of June 2009, ChubbyBrain found that over US$100 million in total VC/angel investment has been injected in 17 iPhone startups in the span of less than 2 years.
In [...]
Whom to Back: Gen Y vs. Old Guys Entrepreneurs
They’re young. They’re brash. They expect an immediate payoff, have no respect for their elders, and think technology can replace good, old-fashioned elbow grease.
And work Saturday? ROTFLOL (translation: Rolling on the floor, laughing out loud.)
They’re Generation Y. At least that’s the stereotype.
But angels might want to withhold judgment on these brash young hotshots. They might [...]
Research on Women Angel Investors
If you look at the startup and angel investing arena over time, you’ll find that it truly has been a man’s world. In many cases — it’s been a White man’s world.
The research on female angels isn’t one to please the feminist. According to the Center for Venture Research, one third of respondents to a [...]
Interesting Finding on Angel Investments in 2009
Much like the majority of the economy, angel investments have felt the crunch of 2009. In fact, according to a University of New Hampshire Center for Venture Research analysis, The Angel Investor Market in Q1Q2 2009: A Halt in the Market Contraction, total investments are down 27% over the first half of 2008.
The interesting finding [...]
Be a Shark or an Angel, Your Choice
In a recent rant by Jason Calacanis, he raged about angel groups that charge entrepreneurs a fee up to US$6,000 for the opportunity to pitch.
The main argument for a shark-fee-based pitching system is to cover costs and weed out frivolous entrepreneurs. The rationale is that if an entrepreneur is serious enough to pay thousands of [...]
In Startup Land, the Old Could Strike Gold
In the United States – unlike many other countries – as people age, they are often disregarded as being “out of it” or “too old to keep up with new technology.” This stigma runs rampant through the culture of this country, ignoring the value that years of experience can actually bring to a situation or [...]
Quick Facts: How Successful Angels Invest
An engaging reader, Jim Flower, recently shot us an email and suggested the following topic:
Flying under the radar. Investing in companies that will never get really big, but have the potential to make a few people financially very happy.
I think it’s a great topic. It sounds legit and seems worth considering. Before I offer my [...]
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