Sachin Tendulkar is a global sportsman that entrepreneurs should learn from. Watch the video below to hear his life story. I find it remarkable that he stated when he was younger a small habit led him to create laser like focus in his field. Focus is a key skill for any successful entrepreneur and Sachin Tendulkar at 3 minutes 30 states[Read More…]
Interviews & Features
Farokh Engineer, Cricket Legend: ‘Venture Giants is Brilliant’
The opportunity for Farokh Engineer came whilst he was on the Cricket Field exciting thousands of cricket fans with his performances during a distinguished international career between 1959 and 1976. He played 46 tests and kept wicket at the World Cup in 1975 also playing for India and Lancashire, UK. Off the cricket field, Engineer worked as Brand[Read More…]
Facts and Lessons for a startup looking to close an Angel Investment Deal
Lesson #1: How are you going to negotiate with an Investor? This article shows how an inexperienced entrepreneur should deal with angel investor questioning. There are simply not enough articles and resources on the internet on how an entrepreneur should negotiate with a potential business angel investor and the types of questions that will be asked in your first meeting.[Read More…]
Heathrow VIP Review: How World Leaders & Entrepreneurs travel through Heathrow Airport
Venture Giants had many high profile angel investors and high net worth individuals as members during its operation. For this reason, Venture Giants was invited to go behind the scenes and find out about the exclusive Heathrow VIP. Watch the video review on Heathrow VIP: Heathrow VIP was reserved exclusively for government officials like the Prime Minister and Diplomats[Read More…]
Angel Investment Funding vs Venture Capital Investment
Contrary to what you are seeing in the press there is excess capital and too few investment opportunities. A large amount of high net worth individuals in the West are seeking to diversify their portfolios away from traditional investments as a hedge against stock market volatility and historically low interest rates. In times of recession, the two best investment classes[Read More…]
Venture Giants has now closed
Venture Giants has now closed its business operations. Launched in 2010, Venture Giants had countless UK angel investors and Venture Capitalists register with the platform looking for investment deal-flow across 80 sectors in the UK. This unique data has allowed us to create entrepreneur resources and business startup articles which we have published on the website in the hopes that[Read More…]
Risk Capital: Raising External Investment
Bank Loans vs Angel Investment Venture Giants Special report on Risk Capital Question: What is Risk Capital? Definition: Risk Capital is classed as investment capital placed into a speculative activity to fund high-risk, high-reward investments. As an entrepreneur looking to raise start-up funds for your business or seeking funds to expand your business, it is important to understand that angel investment is classed as risk capital[Read More…]
Why you may not actually need an Angel Investor for your business capital funding
Why you may not need an Angel Investor for Business Capital Funding So, you believe you are close to creating the next big thing and are on the verge of launching a potential hot-selling product but just need investment from an Angel Investor to make it a success. You believe strongly that £50k – £75k from an angel investor would[Read More…]
What is the World’s Best Investment: Google or Electricity?
A single business angel investment in the right industry, at the right time, and in the right entrepreneur can change the way the world works. Think Google, Think electricity.The UK market in particular has shown a considerable rise in angel investment activity in recent years. The British Venture Capital Association (BVCA) states that in the 2007-08 its members invested in over[Read More…]
The World’s Greatest Angel Investment: Google
Tracing the development of a university graduate research project, it later became Google, a multi-billion pound corporation employing over 20,000 employees worldwide and now controlling over 68% of searches made worldwide over the internet. It has now indexed over one trillion pages on the internet – one thing is clear – Google is big. Though there are many articles listed[Read More…]