How will today’s challenges in the economy impact angel investing? How do angel investors evaluate investment opportunities during tough economic times? If you are an entrepreneur or an investor, you should listen up! Karen Rands shares her opinion and insights based on the recent economic developments in the stock market and her attendance at the [...]

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How will today’s challenges in the economy impact angel investing? How do you feel? Are you worried? Is Private Equity investing in early stage private companies really a viable alternative to stock market investing as an asset class? What does Karen Rands think? Listen as she shares her opinion and insights from her recent radio show: [...]

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NPR had a very interesting segment on March 20th.   It explored the impact of the looming recession and the dramatic meltdown of Bear Stearns on Venture Capital Firms behavior, specific to Silicon Valley.  http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=88650800 Reportedly,  in 2007  venture capital investments in startup companies rose to a six-year high, to nearly $30 billion. That’s the best [...]

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This question comes up now and then.   You may not even realize what you want to do is “angel investing”.   Sometimes when sophisticated investors are trying to grow their wealth they will talk about being a “silient partner” or “owning a piece of a lot of differnt companies” or even “loaning some money to a [...]

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We hear so much about web 2.0 social communities, so how does an angel investor determine the hype from the substance? Do they watch this trend flame out or do they jump on the wave? The danger of the hype of the web 2.0 companies is that we can get caught up in the same groundswell of exciting yet non-commercial concepts as we saw happen in 1998 with the flood of dot-com investment opportunities.

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A recent article on the Fortune Small Business addressed this very topic:  Angel investors operating in organized groups are seeing average returns on investment similar to those enjoyed by venture capitalists, according to a new study.  The Article went on to say: Kauffman Foundation and the Angel Capital Education Foundation, the “Returns of Angel Investors [...]

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