Winning Angels: The Seven Fundamentals of Early-State Investing - Softcover

Amis, David; Stevenson, Howard

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0273649167 ISBN 13: 9780273649168

Publisher: Ft Pr, 2001

Synopsis

Winning Angels is a practical, hands-on guide to angel investing, which includes tools, tactics and strategies for high-tech, low-tech, and every other kind of early-stage investing. Over 50 winning angels in the US and Europe, including Mitch Kapor, Esther Dyson, Andrew Filipowski, Audrey MacLean, and Dick Morley, share their hard-earned years of experience. Some have done over 100 deals each, while others reaped rewards on investments in companies such as Apple Computer, Amazon.com, RealNetworks, idealab!, StarMedia Network, Kozmo.com, returning on occasions several hundred times their original investment.

Winning Angels reduces the art of angel investing into a science, and opens the doors to those angels who have limited experience, while augmenting the experience of seasoned investors. Entrepreneurs will benefit by reading and reflecting on the contents of the book before they seek funding. They will gain access to the mindset of winning angels, and how best to win them over, as well as finding information on how to value, structure and harvest their deals.

David Amis, who has made 15 angel investments, previously served as the Managing Director of Venture Capital Report Ltd, which has matched over 300 entrepreneurs with angels. He currently invests individually and through StartUpFund I, where he serves as the Managing Partner. As an entrepreneur, he has raised over $10m from more than 100 individual investors.

Howard Stevenson, who has made over 80 angel investments, headed the Entrepreneur Management Unit at Harvard Business School for 18 years. He is a leading thinker in the areas of entrepreneurship and angel investing and has authored/co-authored six books, his latest is Do Lunch or Be Lunch, and 43 articles.

 

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From the Back Cover

From the foreword by Peter Crisp, founding partner of Venrock Associates, which was formed in 1969 as the venture capital arm of the Rockefeller Family, and an investor in over 300 early stage deals including Apple Computer and Intel:

"Winning Angels is the first book to chronicle the activities of successful angel investors. Based on personal experience and interviews with over 50 angels, venture capitalists and entrepreneurs, it is a treasure trove of advice from knowledgeable angel-veterans. Not knowing the authors personally, I was not sure what to expect when asked to review Winning Angels. I was impressed by the breadth and depth of the book; the authors have summarized and organized the process of angel investing in a way that no one has done before. The book is a catalog of one anecdotal insight after another, bringing alive the fundamentals of angel investing."

Winning Angels is a practical, hands-on guide to angel investing, which includes tools, tactics, and strategies for high-tech, low-tech, and every other kind of early-stage investing. Over 50 winning angels in the US and Europe, including Mitch Kapor, Esther Dyson, Andrew Filipowski, Audrey MacLean, and Dick Morley, share their hard-earned years of experience. Some have done over 100 deals each, while others reaped rewards on investments in companies such as Apple Computer, Amazon.com, RealNetworks, idealab!, StarMedia Network, Kozmo.com, returning, on occasion, several hundred times their original investment.

Winning Angels reduces the art of angel investing into a science and opens the doors to those angels who have limited experience, while augmenting the experience of seasoned investors. Entrepreneurs will benefit by reading and reflecting on the contents of the book before they seek funding. They will gain access to the mindset of winning angels, and how best to win them over, as well as finding information on how to value, structure and harvest their deals.

About the Author

David Amis has been involved in angel investing, capital matchmaking and start-ups since 1989.  At the age of 23, he founded a small firm, which consulted with over 25 start-up stage companies.  In 1996 he led the buyout of Venture Capital Report (UK) , the first and most successful angel introduction service in the world and served as Managing Director  for one year.  In 1997, he founded Amis Ventures (USA), which connects entrepreneurs and private investors to facilitate seed, start-up, an expansion capital deals. Professor Howard Stevenson is Sarofilm-Rock Professor of Business Administrtion at Harvard University; (this chair was established to provide a continuing base for research and teaching in th field of entrepreneurship.)  He has authored, edited or co-authored six books.  He was a founder and first president of the Baupost Group, Inc. which manges partnerships investing in liquid securities.  He is currently a director of Bessemer Securities Corporation, Camp Dresser & McKee, Landmark Communictions, Sheffield Steel, Gulf States Steel, and The Baupost Group, Inc. as well as a trustee for several private trusts and foundations.  He is listed in Who's Who in America.  He is a president of Sudbury Valley Trustees, a trustee of the Boston Ballet, and a member of the Harvard Club of new York City.

Edition details

• Publisher: Ft Pr
• Publication date: 2001
• ISBN 10: 0273649167
• ISBN 13: 9780273649168
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 400