Posts Tagged ‘BBAA’
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…
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)
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 [...]
Business Angels need training!
Neil Lewis on Tuesday, July 14th, 2009Business Angels need training – that was the overwhelming message coming from the British Business Angels Association annual conference held at the Belfry in early July.
Quoting new research from Nesta, Mogwenna Rees-Mogg stated that a ‘56% failure rate for Business Angel investing is not good enough’.
This means that for every ÂŁ1 invested by UK Business [...]
British Business Angels meet at the Belfry today
Neil Lewis on Wednesday, July 8th, 2009The BBAA (British Business Angels Association) trade body is today organising its annual awards ceremony and conference at the Belfry.
The event is sponsored by Advantage West Midlands, the redevelopment agency for the West Midlands.
It will include both an opportunity to recognise key contributions made to this growth sector during the year at the annual awards dinner as well [...]
