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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 [...]
Startup Acquisitions All Time High: Bloomberg Video with Mark Heesen
Quick Notes Venture capital investing is up 41% in the 1st quarter this year vs. a year ago Number of startup acquisitions is at an all time high Quantity and quality of acquisitions are good 14 to 15 IPOs in 1st quarter, compared to 18 IPOs in the last 2 years Quality of IPOs – [...]
HBS Study: Angel Backed Companies Less Likely to Kick the Bucket
Startup businesses need more than just cash in their kitty to achieve success and business longevity, according to a Harvard Business School paper into entrepreneurial funding. While it is important that seed businesses receive the necessary funding to get their operations up and running, sometimes the psychological support they receive is just as important as [...]
UNH Issues 2009 Angel Market Analysis
THE ANGEL INVESTOR MARKET IN 2009: HOLDING STEADY BUT CHANGES IN SEED AND STARTUP INVESTMENTS The Center for Venture Research at UNH has released a report [PDF] on the angel investor market in 2009. The report indicates that angels haven’t significantly decreased investment activity. But they’re committing fewer dollars due to lower valuations and a [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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. [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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