Posts Tagged ‘Angel investing’
How to become a successful business angel
Brett Tudor on Wednesday, June 9th, 2010You’re wealthy and you’re ready to invest large sums of money to make a decent return –
so where do you invest your cash in 2010? Should you invest in a start-up business? Is angel investing right for you?
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?
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?
Business Angels – What Would Warren Do?
Neil Lewis on Friday, January 8th, 2010Have you ever asked yourself what would Warren Buffett do if he were a Business Angel?
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Well, it might be a bit hard to ask Mr Buffett along to attend our investments seminars, so instead we have attempted to summarise the rules Warren Buffett applies to his investments to see if we can apply that to [...]
How to Beat the Odds on Business Angel Investments
Brett Tudor on Saturday, December 5th, 2009We are living in risk-averse times and “Cash combined with courage in a crisis is priceless” according to Warren Buffet.
But when does courage cross the line into gambling territory? Or to put it another way what if you had say, ÂŁ50,000 to invest, and someone said you have a 20% chance of a return on [...]
