Book Review

Angel Investing - Hatching Start-up Funds with Start-up Companies
Authors: Mark Van Osnabrugge and Robert J. Robinson

 Angel Investing offers an authoritative guide for the entrepreneur seeking capital and the private investor looking for a better return on investments of $100,000 or more. It is a comprehensive guide on the emerging form of financing, complete with stories of investors and companies that have led the way in angel investing. Written by two veteran investors Mark Van Osnabrugge, a management consultant with Marakon Associates, a top-tier international consulting firm and Robert J. Robinson, associate professor of negotiations at Harvard Business School and an angel investor, Angel Investing is based on years of research. Both Osnabrugge and Robinson spent years, conducting in-depth interviews with business angels, venture capitalists and entrepreneurs. 

Angel Investing, also, offers readers an unprecedented overview of how business angels compare with their better-known counterparts – venture capitalists. In easily readable language, the book covers a wide range of topics from investment motivations to exit strategies. It also provides the resources entrepreneurs need to secure angel investment for their growing companies.

Entrepreneurs will learn what angel investors look for in a startup, how to pitch their companies successfully and tap into the billions of dollars that business angels invest in entrepreneurial firms each year. On the other hand, angels can discover the best ways to connect with startups – what criteria to look for before committing capital and how to make their first investment in an entrepreneurial firm.

 Angel Investing includes a valuable resource section that features the first-ever listing of over seventy services that match entrepreneurs with investors, as well as Web sites, informational networks and other organizations that provide strategies, advice and investment deals. 

By Frank Szivos

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