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Best Strategies To Secure Investment For Your Startup

Launching a startup is an exhilarating journey filled with innovation and potential. However, to turn your vision into reality, you may need financial backing.

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Angels, investors or individuals can provide capital to startups in exchange for ownership equity or convertible debt, and this can be a valuable source of funding if you need to raise money for your business.

According to recent data from the Angel Capital Association, angel investors in the United States invested over $25 billion in startups in the last year, making them a significant source of funding for early-stage ventures. In this article, we’ll explore effective strategies for attracting angel investors to your venture.…

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Bay of Angels: How to Catch an Investment

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Think back to the time when parents bought berry ice cream with a condition of good behavior. So they were angel investors because they didn’t know for sure if their investment would pay off.

Let’s get back to the serious financial talk.

Companies like Intel, Microsoft and Amazon started with private investments. Therefore, startups all over the world dream of getting under the wing of such businessmen. It is worth immediately separating the two concepts of venture capital funds and angel investors. The latter are entrepreneurs with rich experience in business and some narrow sphere, who have earned a certain capital and want to earn money on the development of new companies in the field of information technology.…

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When Looking for Investors, Tread Carefully Around Angels

There are plenty of studies floating around the Internet that suggest that banks are hesitant to loan money to entrepreneurs. That is unless they don’t really need it. No surprise there.

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One of the studies, conducted by Florida Atlantic University College of Business, noted “bank lending to small businesses … is still depressed several years after the end of the U.S. financial crisis that started in 2008.”

So what should an entrepreneur do? Definitely explore alternative sources of debt financing. More on that later.

What should an entrepreneur not do? Sell a piece of their company to an angel investor to finance their business.…

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Angels vs. Venture Capital: Disposing of the Myths

Many people often confuse or interchange angel investors, venture capitalists, and private equity deals, which are among the major sources of start-up income. While there can be a few similarities in the right light, when you compare them side-by-side, they’re apples and oranges. People often believe that business angels, venture capital and private equity are all one and the same.

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A major similarity is that both angel investors and venture capitalists are making their investments into private companies for the return of private equity in those companies. Private equity is simply shares or stakes (sometimes securities) in any company which isn’t registered with the stock market.…

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