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• Where business angel investors fear to tread
  Investors in early stage and start-up businesses are known as angel investors. The tag ‘angel’ coming from their tendency to operate in the margins where venture capitalists, banks and other backers choose not to go. They also help plug a major funding gap to get such ventures off the ground and they happen to be [...] […]
• Start-ups loving business angels instead
  It may have been Valentines Day yesterday, but with banks’ reluctance to lend to businesses, they could push more start-ups into the arms of angel investors. With UK banks still showing a reluctance to lend to businesses, companies could well be forced to look towards alternative sources to fund their ventures. The recession may be over, [...] […]
• Angel investors and entrepreneurs – a match made in heaven?
  More than half of business angel investments fail, but why? How much of this can be put down to the innate vulnerability of start-up businesses? Surely having an enthusiastic angel investor on board, eager to provide a timely injection of funding to ensure success should mean failure rates i.e. those leaving the business angel out [...] […]