Archive for the ‘Business Angel News’ Category
An Extinction Level Event for Seed Funding?
Brett Tudor on Monday, July 19th, 2010New venture funding is the lowest it’s been for a decade according to Nesta’s July report Venture Capital Now and After the Dotcom Crash and that’s not all…
By Dr Smith – the Good Bad and Very Ugly
Neil Lewis on Saturday, July 17th, 2010Most of the time the partnerships which form between founders and angel investors are productive but, in a few cases, I have seen it turn very destructive.
Companies that should have realized success have been held back by investor partnerships that have severely limited their potential or, in some cases, doomed them to failure…
Budget Puts the Squeeze Business Angels
Brett Tudor on Wednesday, June 23rd, 2010in this latest emergency Budget the Chancellor has gone out of his way to show that Britain may be weighed down by a mammoth budget deficit to reduce, but it is still open for business. Or is it?
UK budget provides unexpected boost to entrepreneurs
Brett Tudor on Tuesday, June 22nd, 2010Entrepreneurs can now claim Capital Gains Tax relief on up to £5m worth of business sales in a lifetime – this is up from £2m in March and £1m only 6 months ago.
If personality is no guide to start-up success – what is?
Neil Lewis on Thursday, May 27th, 2010Business angels will already know this in their gut, but a recent survey of entrepreneurial literature has told us, here at iBusinessAngel, that personality is no guide to success.
Various firms have been developing psychometric tests to identify the personality traits of a successful entrepreneur and it turns out, that there is no agreement on whether any of these work. So what can research tell us?
Women business angels expected to rise in 2010
Brett Tudor on Wednesday, May 26th, 2010A new national programme to attract women into business angel investing has been announced by Finance South East and the British Business Angels Association (BBAA)
Where Business Angel Investors Fear to Tread
Brett Tudor on Monday, March 8th, 2010Investors 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 the kind of investors who are prepared to take a risk, rely on their instincts and invest large sums without too many hard questions asked.
At least this is the accepted view.
How should Entrepreneurs and Investors cope with a Second Recession?
Neil Lewis on Tuesday, October 20th, 2009In the first recession investors wanted business plans that offered new simplified services or goods that make things work better (ie. increase efficiency – such as self-service on the web for better prices) or that reduce costs (such as better conferencing or collaboration on the web allowing businesses to cut corporate travel).
However, as opinions strengthen [...]
