Business Angels Need Help!

Much has been written about how angel investors can help entrepreneurs, but who do business angels turn to when they need help?

Business angels are seen as the amateur cousins of professional venture capitalist investors in much the same way as the blue chip business sector is often seen as the core value sector of any economy. In fact, blue chips represent less than 2% of businesses in terms of volume and less than 50% in terms of value.

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The 10 Minute Interview – Mike Weaver CEO of Business Angel Group Beer and Partners

Beer and Partners CEO Mike Weaver has a strong belief in business angels’ ability to help stimulate economic recovery. However, Mike also believes there are no guarantees of success in angel funding and business angels should be prepared for a significant number of their investments to go “pear shaped” before they find a “star”.

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The 10-Minute Interview – Angelsden Co-Founder Bill Morrow

Bill Morrow, Angelsden co-founder and former city banker, set up the UK speed funding pioneers in 2007 after several years researching the business angel market.

He remains a firm believer that plenty of funding exists out there for good business ideas. He also believes that most business angels will see a return on their investment inside three years…

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How business angels source investment opportunities

Businesses are starting up everyday. Many remain starved of the vital funding and help they need to grow but how does your typical business angel find those businesses, let alone invest in them?

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By Dr Smith – the Good Bad and Very Ugly

Most 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…

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The 10-Minute Interview – Business Angel Eileen Burbidge

Business Angel and Internet technology expert, Eileen Burbidge, talks to Brett Tudor about why she became a business angel and what she looks for in the businesses she invests in.

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If personality is no guide to start-up success – what is?

Business 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?

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Cuts will increase the importance of business angels

Chancellor 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…

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How do you defend your business angel investment’s idea?

If 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.

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The 10-Minute Interview – Business Angel Stefan Glaenzer

Stefan 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.

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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 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.

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