When angel investing first started, chances were pretty good any investment being made was fairly close to home. Even with excellent travel infrastructure over the past several decades, Business Angels still preferred to invest close to home and within a 100 mile radius. Here we are in the middle of 2009. Are things any different today? Would you be willing to invest in[Read More…]

You simply cannot be a good business angel investor without also being an entrepreneur. Because of this “two-tiered title”, I can’t help but feel so excited and inspired every time I hear or read about a relatively new start-up selling for a huge windfall. I guess those types of exits reap wonderful rewards for both the entrepreneur and investor. Over the past few[Read More…]

Over my entrepreneurial life, I have started dozens of businesses, some needed cash from an outside angel investor or bank and some did not. For the ones that did need outside capital, being a new start-up usually meant an angel investor. Many of those have been private individuals but some have also been professional angel investors. It doesn’t really matter what[Read More…]

Europe has recently realised the strengths of business angel activity as a source of funding for startups. Whereas Europe in the next few years faces the challenge of building a trans-European environment for cross-border investments, Finland is leading the way by demonstrating EU-Russian cross-border cooperation. Sitra, the Finnish Innovation Fund was one of the founding members of the European Business[Read More…]

If you are looking for investment opportunities with significant returns, an Angel Investor may be for you. You invest a set amount of money to a business that is normally already established but needs capital for growth. In order to be successful in investing in small businesses, you will need to do your due diligence.  No matter what market you[Read More…]

In the third week of March, while most of our minds were fixed on surging corona virus death rates and the apocalyptic scenes in hospital wards, global financial markets came as close to a collapse as they have since September 2008. The price of shares in the world’s major corporations plunged. The value of the dollar surged against every currency[Read More…]