3 Tips To Become An Angel Investor
?? Vijay Talreja
Digital Transformation & Customer Experience Leader | Banking, Financial Services & Insurance | Retail & eCommerce
Let us start with some enlightment. As per wikipedia "An angel is a supernatural being or spirit found in various religions and mythologies”..Wow!
Do such supernatural beings exist in todays world? I guess the answer is No. But then why are certain species of investors called Angel Investors? Known as a business angel or an informal investor or an angel funder,these are people who provide financial backing to startups or entrepreneurs when the rest of the world is not willing to take the risk. The trend started with friends and family providing the initial seed capital and then had others following suit. So given these investors take the highest risk and trust the entrepreneur they seem like angels to the entrepreneur. In the past few years of being an angel investor myself, I have found no other reason to be called one. If you know of any other then let there be some light.
Given the fact that I spent close to two decades working for MNC corporates, I keep getting asked by my ex-colleagues if they can ‘also’ become Angel Investors, like me :). While I don’t have issues with them following my footsteps, I do try and set their expectations and give them some valuable tips.
To read the 3 tips read my complete blog posted on Lets Venture - https://bit.ly/1Oh66TS
Still in doubt about angel investing or have an idea/startup that needs funding. Reach me @vjtrocks or on [email protected].
NOTE: I am generally keen about tech startups that can bring some innovations to the Digital Commerce space.
CXO /Board Director / CTO with 32 years of experience of Innovation/Technology/Applied Research Enabled New Product Development which includes AI/ML/IOT/Full Stack Development Experience Embedded in Projects Done
9 年As they say the brave go where eagles dare , angels have to take the road less traveled but converting that road less traveled into a investment highway is really an Angelic role - I hope angels are doing this
QA Manager - Digital Commerce, Banking, Healthcare and CMS.
9 年Very nice blog. Helpful & informative.
Government Liasioning | 34.1K Marquee followers| Essentially key Corporate-skewed Contacts _Private (Angel) Investor | Hands-On Adviser: promising ventures & enterprises | Value creation | Networ-KING Strategist!
9 年All regards to any Investor who takes a capital-risk (believing in the execution skills and competencies of the Entrepreneur / team) and puts money on the back. The thin line is that every investor who funds at the very initial stages might not prove to be "Angel" Famous saying : Board room Investor vs Bed room Inv.
Co Founder and Managing Principal, Orcapod
9 年Vijay, Happy to hear this from a Angel Investor. I liked your Point-2. Executive working in big corporate, buying small stake in a company and then using entrepreneur or venture as your research subject is a bad idea.