Angel Investing: Matching Startup Funds with Startup Companies--The Guide for Entrepreneurs and Individual InvestorsThey deliver more capital to entrepreneurs than any other source.And they often receive an incredible return on their investments.They're angel investors, some of the most important--and leastunderstood--players in business today. The United States has closeto three million angels, whose investments in startups exceed $60billion per year. Some of our most successful companies were fundedby angels--companies like Ford, AOL, and Amazon.com. But until now,little has been written about these angels, due in part to theirpreference for anonymity. Angel Investors provides an inside lookat who these angels are and how they operate. It also showswould-be angels and entrepreneurs how best to find eachother. To learn more about this book, visit its website. |
Contents
Funding Entrepreneurial Firms | 3 |
Bootstrapping Internally and the Challenges | 23 |
Types of Outside Investors Willing to Finance | 36 |
The Two Main Sources of Funding | 61 |
Harnessing the Power of Business Angels | 77 |
Understanding the Investors Structural | 95 |
Business Angel and Venture Capitalist | 113 |
Monitoring the Investment | 188 |
to Your Startup Firm | 213 |
Becoming a Successful Business | 233 |
The Future of the Business Angel Market | 247 |
Further Helpful Resources | 339 |
Writing a Winning Business Plan | 359 |
Glossary | 373 |
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Exiting the Investment and Realizing Returns | 199 |
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References to this book
The Growth of Venture Capital: A Cross-Cultural Comparison Dilek Cetindamar No preview available - 2003 |
Business Angels-Netzwerke: Funktionen, Bedeutung und Potential für ... Thomas Kasner Limited preview - 2007 |