Angel Investors
How To Be an Angel Investor – HBS Working Knowledge – Tools and advice to potential angels, and resource manual for early state investors.
Angel Investors – Small Business Notes -- Angel investors are individuals who invest in businesses looking for a higher return than they would see from more traditional investments.
Finding an Angel – Small Business Notes – Angel investors can be very difficult to identify and contact. They do not want to be deluged with business plans.
Private Investors/Business Angels – CCH Business Owner’s Toolkit -- Angels can be a very good source of money if you are looking for outside investors but you are not interested in, or not a likely target for, a venture capital firm.
Business Capital from Angels – Iowa Small Business Business Development Centers -- One source of working capital for new and growing businesses is from private, wealthy investors, referred to as "Angels."
Angel Investing - HBS Working Knowledge -- Business angels are among the most important - and least understood - players of entrepreneurship today.
Angel Investors – Entrepreneur.com – A series of articles on angel investors.
Angel Investors – Entrepreneur.com -- These individual VC investors seem like they're from heaven, but be prepared to give up a chunk of your company for funding.
Angel Search– VFinance, Inc. – Over 23,000 potential angels.
Guardian Angels - Electronic Matching Services – Entrepreneur.com -- Find the angel investor of your dreams through online matching services.
Venture Capital
How to Attract Venture Capital – Small Business Notes – A firm may look at anywhere from 1000 to 5000 business plans per year. Out of that approximately 2% will even get an interview.
Marking the Perfect Pitch to VCs – HBS Working Knowledge – When you are pitching your proposal to VCs, tell them an emotional story.
The Right Connections – HBS Working Knowledge -- In attracting funding for a new venture, professional ties and company connections are even more important than a good product in inspiring the trust and loosening the wallets of potential investors.
The Power of Partnership – HBS Working Knowledge – What does it take to make things work between an entrepreneur and a venture capitalist?
Obtaining Venture Capital – Small Business Notes -- Venture capital firms will judge you by how prepared you are.
Venture Capital – Small Business Notes – Venture capital is a form of financing for a company in which you give up some level of ownership and control of the business in exchange for capital for a limited timeframe, usually 3-5 years.
Venture Capital – CCH Business Owner’s Toolkit -- Money and expertise for hot businesses.
Done Deals - HBS Working Knowledge -- What is it really like inside the turnulent world of venture capital?
Locating Venture Returns - HBS Working Knowledge -- Syndications, pressure from limited partners, and due diligence to the extreme all point to new times for the venture capital industry. What's next?
The VC Quandry: Too Much Money - HBS Working Knowledge -- The VC money "overhang" continues as investors compete to get into a small number of deals each year.
Why Baseball's Billy Beane is a Model VC - HBS Working Knowledge -- The general manager of baseball's Oakland A's is a master at achieving the most with limited resources.
Venture Capital – Lawyers.com -- The term venture capital usually refers to funds that are raised and pooled together for the specific purpose of investing in start-up or early-stage business enterprises.
What do Venture Capitals Look For? – AllBusiness.com – How do I get venture capitalists to look at my business?
Pratt’s Guide to Venture Capital Sources – This guide provides information on more than 1,200 sources of institutional venture capital.
VC Secrets: Stages of Venture Capital - VentureXpert Web (membership required).
Venture Economics - Thomson -- A source for gloabal private equity intelligence.
Institutional Venture Capital - Entrepreneur.com -- VC funding isn't always easy to obtain and you'll have to give up equity, but when you're a high-growth company with high-financing needs, it can be your best bet.