Startup Team Harmony – Why It’s SO Important

Starting up any business will bring extreme pressures, and research shows that most businesses will fail within the first five years.

With this in mind, if you’re a business angel it is worth keeping a very close eye on team harmony, a significant indicator of the future success of a startup. You don’t want a Carlos Tevez type situation on your hands….

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Business Angels: 4 ways to increase investment success

Due Diligence is often seen as not possible or relevant for an early-stage investment. Yet many business angels lose money on the majority of their investments

Can due diligence help?

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The big Team problem for Business Angels

Business Angels come from all sorts of back grounds.

Many are successful, some very successful.

However, does that mean that they will always pick a good investment? No…

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Renting office space for growth businessess – the options

Whether you’ve already got a business up and running or are planning on starting one up in the near future, then office space is always an issue that you’ll need to deal with.

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Angels Den Founder Bill Morrow on ‘Crowdfunding’

Crowdfunding, a model that raises funding for start-ups by harnessing the power of the Internet investor crowd has grown from similar models that already exist in the US, but Crowdcube is the first website of its kind to be launched with UK businesses in mind – will it provide all the answers for entrepreneurs who need investment?

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Business Angels and Startups Going Global!

The entire landscape of early stage funding is in a state of flux – new innovations in funding models are emerging to threaten the traditional status quo  and the world has become a smaller place for those adventurous entrepreneurs willing to take a risk internationally.

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Angel Investing – Nurturing Start-Ups

This should be an exciting time, you’ve waded through all those investment proposals and found a business that feels right, one that you believe has the potential to give you a profitable exit in 3 years. So what next? Will you be a ‘guardian angel’ or a hands- off angel investor?

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Don’t Make an Angel Investment before…

Okay, you’ve hunted down the best business proposals, you’ve sorted through the angel networks and found a good supply of deals… now, your network wants you to investment, the entrepreneurs appear credible – and hungry … do you press the button and write the cheque?

Or… do you continue with your due diligence?

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2011 – Year of the Business Angel?

2011 will be the year of the business angel as all the Business Angel as all the latent angel investors who didn’t bother risking it in 2010 decide this will be the year to jump in and live dangerously.

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A New Model of Angel Investment Emerges

If you’re thinking of becoming a business angel which would you rather, wait for a windfall that may never arrive or see a return spread over the length of your commitment?

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Why Business Angels Need to be in Tune with Start-ups

Should business angels listen more carefully to the needs of start-ups as well as working on their own image?

Most of what we read about business angels’ relationships with start-ups revolves around how much they should invest and what start-ups can do to attract business angel funding.

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An Extinction Level Event for Seed Funding?

New 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…

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Business angels – How do you know when the price is right?

Most 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.

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