Attracting Capital From Angels: How Their Money - and Their Experience - Can Help You Build a Successful Company - Hardcover

Hill, Brian E.; Power, Dee

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 047103620X ISBN 13: 9780471036203

Publisher: Wiley, 2002

Synopsis

"The complexity of business in economically demanding times makes finding constructive angels that much more challenging. The advice and tips in Attracting Capital from Angels are, therefore, invaluable. The wisdom offered here is not just for start-ups or neophytes, but is a well-timed companion to already existing resources and approaches to helping a business in all phases of development. It's also a great manual for people who want to share their knowledge (and invest capital) as an angel. I plan to recommend Attracting Capital from Angels to every entrepreneur I run into in the future who asks for mentoring sources. Great job!"
—Bob Bozeman, General Partner, Angel Investors, LP

PENNIES FROM HEAVEN
This book offers all the information entrepreneurs need for finding elusive angel investors. Comprehensive, eminently readable, and based on the authors' years of experience dealing with venture capital firms, angels, and entrepreneurs, this book covers all the angles on angels:

• What are angels and what do they want?
• Different types of angels
• Pitching and preparing for angels
• Finding angels
• Working with angels
• The future of angel investing

Attracting Capital from Angels is the ultimate guide to finding the money your business needs to get on its feet-and make a run at success.

About this title

From the Inside Flap

Angels are a particularly rare breed of investor. Whereas venture capital firms and funds invest other people's money in new businesses, angel investors invest their own money. Willing to take great risks, they are the start-up entrepreneur's best friends. Attracting Capital from Angels offers an in-depth look at the white knights of the entrepreneurial world.

Angels most often assist a company when it may be little more than an entrepreneur's dream. Frequently, they offer more than money: serving as coach, mentor, and champion, and often providing guidance from the point of view of one who has experience turning ideas into fortunes.

This book is the product of fifteen years working with, observing, and listening to entrepreneurs and angel investors as they pursued the entrepreneurial dream. It features top-notch research supplemented by in-depth interviews with angel investors and entrepreneurs. The personal stories presented here will help you learn from the mistakes of other entrepreneurs and model your approach on their successes.

From the entrepreneur's point of view, gaining an understanding of the angel as an individual is an important factor in determining whether the partnership will be successful. As such, this book provides an inside look at angel investors and a comprehensive understanding of the "how" and the "why" of what they do. It provides guidance on finding the right angels, avoiding the wrong ones, and making a business work after an angel buys into it.

Topics include:
* Angel investors versus venture capitalists
* How angels identify promising investments
* Selling a business plan to an angel investor
* Spotting frauds and cheats
* The importance of obtaining sound legal advice
* Attracting angels to your business
* Angels' approach to valuation
* Working with an angel after closing the deal

Finding capital for your company is one of the most difficult and important tasks an entrepreneur must undertake, and Brian Hill and Dee Power will help you do it right. Both a practical "how-to" book and an authoritative resource on angel investors, Attracting Capital from Angels will tell you everything you need to know to find your own divine source of capital.

About the Author

BRIAN E. HILL holds a master's degree in business administration, with a specialization in finance. He worked in corporate planning with several large organizations before founding Profit Dynamics, Inc., a research and management consulting firm, in 1987. This firm has advised numerous small and midsized companies in the areas of writing business plans and finding capital. Clients have included technology and Internet companies as well as manufacturing, distribution, and service businesses.

DEE POWER also has an MBA degree and is a founding partner of Profit Dynamics, Inc. She has eighteen years of experience in business planning and in working with entrepreneurs. Hill and Power are also the authors of Inside Secrets to Venture Capital, available from Wiley. They can be reached through their Web site, www.capital-connection.com, a resource site for entrepreneurs looking for capital.

About this edition

• Publisher: Wiley
• Publication date: 2002
• ISBN 10: 047103620X
• ISBN 13: 9780471036203
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 336