Angel Investing

They deliver more capital to entrepreneurs than any other source.And they often receive an incredible return on their investments.They're angel investors, some of the most important--and leastunderstood--players in business today. The United States has closeto three million angels, whose investments in startups exceed $60billion per year. Some of our most successful companies were fundedby angels--companies like Ford, AOL, and Amazon.com. But until now,little has been written about these angels, due in part to theirpreference for anonymity. Angel Investors provides an inside lookat who these angels are and how they operate. It also showswould-be angels and entrepreneurs how best to find eachother. To learn more about this book, visit its website.

FINANCING OPTIONS FOR START-UP FIRMS. Funding Entrepreneurial Firms. Bootstrapping Internally and the Challenges to Securing OutsideFinance. Types of Outside Investors Willing to Finance Growing Firms. THE TWO MAIN SOURCES OF FUNDING: BUSINESS ANGELS AND VENTURECAPITALISTS. The Value of Business Angels and Venture Capitalists. Harnessing the Power of Business Angels and VentureCapitalist. Understanding the Investors' Structural and PersonalDifferences. BUSINESS ANGEL AND VENTURE CAPITALIST DIFFERENCES THROUGHOUT THEINVESTMENT PROCESS. Investors' Motivations and Investment Criteria. Screening the Deal and Conducting Due Diligence. Negotiating and Forming the Legal Contract. Monitoring the Investment. Exiting the Investment and Realizing Returns. ATTRACTING BUSINESS ANGEL FUNDS TO YOUR START-UP FIRM. Valuing Your Firm. Negotiating the Funding Agreement. BECOMING A SUCCESSFUL BUSINESS ANGEL INVESTOR. Steps in Effectively Making Your First Investment in anEntrepreneurial Firm. THE FUTURE OF THE BUSINESS ANGEL MARKET. The Business Angel Market in the New Millennium. PUTTING THE WHEELS INTO MOTION. Appenxix 1: A Detailed List of More than Seventy Matching Servicesin the United States. Appendix 2: Further Helpful Resourses. Appendix 3: Writing a Winning Business Plan. Glossary. Bibliography. Name Index. Subject Index.