What every angel investor wants you to know : an insider reveals how to get smart funding for your billion dollar idea /
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| Language: | English |
| Language Notes: | In English. |
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New York, N.Y. :
McGraw-Hill Education,
[2013]
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| Edition: | First edition. |
| Series: | McGraw-Hill's AccessEngineering.
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| Online Access: | Connect to the full text of this electronic book |
Table of Contents:
- A. Dedication
- B. Foreword
- C. Introduction
- The closest thing to slavery
- Startups are a social good
- Entrepreneurial spirit
- Follow your passion?or not
- Some words about the book
- 1. Angel investing is a contact sport
- You can't be successful at a distance
- Know what you're getting into
- You are in control
- Four attributes of fundable startups
- Exciting time
- 2. Early stage investing and why angels are your new best friend
- Why i'm an angel investor
- Do angel investors make money?
- Angels at work
- Angels and vcs
- Risks of letting vcs into your seed round
- 3. Let's get to know each other
- Know the outcome
- The perfect elevator pitch
- More chutzpah, please
- Basic questions
- How do i want to be contacted?
- The single best question to ask me
- Publicstuff
- Feast with me
- High-touch investor
- 4. What i'm looking for in an entrepreneur
- Start the presentation with you
- Integrity
- Previous entrepreneurial experience
- Leadership chemistry and management experience
- Domain knowledge
- Skills
- Street smarts
- Introducing comixology
- Take the audition seriously
- Startups led by women do better
- Other attributes i look for
- Passion and vision
- If you want a good coach, be coachable
- 5. What i look for in the pitch
- A presentation is like a shark
- What delights me in a presentation
- Show me you're in control
- How will my investment be used?
- Start with yourself
- Valuation expectations
- Make me smarter
- The bid for action
- Pitching turnoffs
- 6. Every business starts with a belief
- Belief + execution = success
- Your idea is not as important as you think it is
- Understand underwear
- Jaxx: a messaging platform for men
- 7. Investor raising vs. Money raising
- It's not easy to turn down money
- Do you write checks?
- Meet angel investor jeff pulver
- Outside eyes and ears
- 8. Don't hurt the ones who love you
- Manage expectations
- 9. Going belly to belly with your customer
- What solution is the customer hiring?
- Market
- Iq is overrated
- 10. Due diligence and do diligence
- Call it discovery
- East and west
- Anticipate due diligence
- Dreading due diligence
- 11. Accelerators, incubators, and crowdfunding
- Accelerators and incubators
- Doing more smarter, faster
- Y combinator and techstars
- Crowdfunding
- 12. It's all about teammanship
- Indicators that really matter to me
- 13. Getting to no is just as important as getting to yes
- It's about time
- Deserve a quick no
- 14. Iterating the startup
- Iteration vs. Pivot
- Attractive to angels
- Iteration is the new innovation
- Iterate is a verb
- 15. Baking in the exit from the beginning
- The business process that pays off most
- Two exits
- The acqui-hire
- Whose exit strategy is it anyway?
- A. Due diligence checklist
- B. The new york angels term sheet
- Terms for private placement of seed series preferred stock of [insert company name], inc.
- C. Five indispensable tools founders can use to do due diligence on angels
- Gust
- Angellist
- Techcrunch
- Quora
- D. Own your venture equity simulator
- E. Acknowledgments
- F. About the authors
- G. About the new york angels.