Archive for the ‘Investment Strategy’ Category
Cuts will increase the importance of business angels
Brett Tudor on Tuesday, May 25th, 2010Chancellor George Osborne’s announcement that the Business Department will bear the brunt of £6 billion cuts, could well signal difficult times to come for those businesses seeking regional development aid…
Business angels – How do you know when the price is right?
Brett Tudor on Sunday, May 9th, 2010Most start-ups can only dream of achieving rapid growth of this scale and generating profits of this magnitude for their business angel backers. The reality is that most start-ups will fall at either the first or second hurdle and the angel investors who backed them will be on the receiving end of an 80% failure rate when you look deeper into the stats.
Start-ups With X Factor To Compete In Barcelona
Brett Tudor on Wednesday, April 28th, 2010With the auditions for this year’s X Factor now underway, the search is also on to find a start-up business with enough potential to scoop a generous cash prize. Start-up and entrepreneur portal f3fundit have organised the event to give those entering their business the opportunity to turn €120 into a €25,000 prize.
How do you defend your business angel investment’s idea?
Neil Lewis on Tuesday, April 27th, 2010If your business angel investment has ideas or new products and services, then it will create value around that knowledge or Intellectual Property (IP) which you will want to defend from copying, stealing or mimicking – as far as the law will allow you.
So, how do you do it….?
The 10-Minute Interview – Business Angel Stefan Glaenzer
Brett Tudor on Monday, April 5th, 2010Stefan is London-based entrepreneur and angel investor from Germany. He is the co-founder of companions.de, companionsTV, ricardo.de and myblog.de. He is also the founding investor and executive Chairman of Mendeley.com and RjDj.me and has been in the same role at Last.fm.
Budget Could Swell Ranks of Business Angels
Brett Tudor on Thursday, April 1st, 2010The latest Budget could well have helped create the conditions for the growth of business angel investing
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.
Angel Investors and Entrepreneurs – A Match Made in Heaven?
Brett Tudor on Monday, February 1st, 2010More 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 of pocket come exit time should statistically be on the better side of half.
Yet this clearly isn’t the case.
Business Angels Find Safety in Numbers
Brett Tudor on Sunday, January 17th, 2010We have already established that angel investing is a risky business but one with potentially high rewards. So is it better to go it alone? Or seek the company of others?
