Category: Business Angels

Business Angels, Education, Global View, Innovation & Strategic, Investment, Private Equity & Venture Capital, Startups, ...

Should the UK government convert student debt into startup equity? 

If much higher-than-expected numbers of students join the ranks of the long-term unemployed, most student loans are going to remain unpaid indefinitely. Is the risk of student unemployment higher than the risk of failure for a startup accelerator-boosted founder?

Boardroom, Business Angels, Global View, Investment, Life itself, Perspective, Private Equity & Venture Capital, ...

Mortgage your house, then bootstrap from zero to $50m in 7 years 

And all that was BEFORE she got into the VC business, and not just the old-style VC business: she does mentoring at TechStars, invested early in UStream, and is CEO of Get Satisfaction, a 50,000+ customer startup which uses social media to support customer relationships

Business Angels, Entrepreneur's Briefcase, Global View, Green Tech, Innovation & Strategic, Investment, Private Equity & Venture Capital, ...

What did the budget do for UK innovation investors? 

Of the incentives announced in the budget, perhaps the most important for innovation may be the increase in the rate of income tax relief. Share scheme specialist Russell Eisen compares the chancellor’s announcements with innovation champion Julie Meyer’s pre-budget suggestions

Biotech, Business Angels, Entrepreneur's Briefcase, Global View, Innovation & Strategic, Investment, Perspective, ...

Startup death spiral? Surely not! 

Maybe it’s just something that nobody wanted to talk about. Large organisations had, over the years, paid countless professors to study the shortcomings of large organisations, leaving the trials and tribulations of the startup unstudied, waiting for Steve Blank to one day notice something shockingly consistent about the way most startups spin out of control

Business Angels, Entrepreneur's Briefcase, Global View, Innovation & Strategic, Investment, Private Equity & Venture Capital, Startups, ...

Angels teach Venture Capitalists how to accelerate startups 

The new breed of angels: as much ‘startup coentrepreneurs’ as they are investors. Executive control, once obligatory, now seen as a liability, is being replaced with new brands of investor offerings which minimise dilution and instead creatively collaborate to facilitate leanness and opportunistic market agility. VCs are keenly studying this new wizardry