Brian E. Hill, Dee Power

Attracting Capital from Angels

How Their Money-And Their Experience-Can Help You Build a Successful Company

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Durch die große Zahl neuer Start-up Unternehmen und Börsengänge bleibt die Unternehmensfinanzierung nach wie vor ein brisantes Thema. "Attracting Capital from Angels" zeigt Unternehmensgründern, wie sie finanzkräftige Privatpersonen finden - sog. Angel Investors -, die ihre Geschäftsidee unterstützen und ihnen beim Aufbau ihres Unternehmen helfen. Das Buch ist praktischer Leitfaden und maßgebliche Informationsquelle in einem. Es basiert auf den Erfahrungen der Autoren und auf den Ergebnissen zahlreicher renommierter Forschungsprojekte. Enthalten sind umfassende und detaillierte Interviews mit Angel Investors und mit Unternehmern, die die private Kapitalspritze erfolgreich genutzt haben sowie eine Reihe von Negativbeispielen zu gescheiterten Versuchen. "Attracting Capital from Angels" - der unverzichtbare Leitfaden für jeden Unternehmensgründer.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Wiley & Sons
• 1. Auflage
• Seitenzahl: 336
• Erscheinungstermin: 21. Januar 2002
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 25mm
• Gewicht: 566g
• ISBN-13: 9780471036203
• ISBN-10: 047103620X
• Artikelnr.: 13793083

Autorenporträt

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.

Inhaltsangabe

Foreword by Bob Bozeman.
Foreword by Randy Haykin.
WHAT IS AN ANGEL AND WHAT DO ANGELS WANT?
CHAPTER 1: The Fascinating World of Angel Investors.
CHAPTER 2: Trends in Angel Investing.
CHAPTER 3: What Is an Angel Investor?
CHAPTER 4: Why Do People Want to Be Angels?
CHAPTER 5: The Challenges of Being an Angel.
CHAPTER 6: Angels Compared to Venture Capitalists.
CHAPTER 7: What Do Angels Want?
CHAPTER Entrepreneur Characteristics That Attract Angels.
TYPES OF ANGELS.
CHAPTER 9: The Many, Many Types of Angels.
CHAPTER 10: When Angels and Venture Capitalists Are on.
CHAPTER 11: Devil in a Blue Suit: Spotting Frauds and Cheats.
PREPARING FOR A GLIMPSE OF HEAVEN.
CHAPTER 12: Why an Attorney Is an Absolute Must.
CHAPTER 13: Putting Together Your Advisory Board.
CHAPTER 14: The Poor, Misunderstood Business Plan.
CHAPTER 15: The All-Important Marketing Plan.
CHAPTER 16: Do Angels Put Any Credence in Business Plans?
CHAPTER 17: Polishing Your Pitch.
FINDING AN ANGEL.
CHAPTER 18: How Do Angels Find the Deals?
CHAPTER 19: Why Do Angels Band Together?
CHAPTER 20: Behind Closed Doors 189
CHAPTER 21: Tracking the Flight Path of Angels Is Difficult: They Don't
Show Up on Radar.
CHAPTER 22: Making It Easy for an Angel to Find You.
YOU'VE FOUND AN ANGEL -
NOW WHAT?
CHAPTER 23: To Invest or Not to Invest: That Is the Question.
CHAPTER 24: The Mystery of Valuation.
CHAPTER 25: Coming to Terms.
CHAPTER 26: Entrepreneurs Who Attracted Angels to Their Company.
LIVING WITH AN ANGEL.
CHAPTER 27: Advantages of an Angel Investing in a Company.
CHAPTER 28: Working with an Angel after the Close.
CHAPTER 29: Tales from the Venture Vault.
THE FUTURE OF ANGEL INVESTING.
CHAPTER 30: Making the Angel Investment Market More Efficient.
CHAPTER 31: Outlook: What a Wonderful World It Could Be.
APPENDIX: Experts Who Contributed to Attracting Capital from Angels.
Index.