Posts Tagged ‘entrepreneurs’

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?

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.
