April 2013
Beginner
272 pages
5h 11m
English
book
What Every Angel Investor Wants You to Know: An Insider Reveals How to Get Smart Funding for Your Billion Dollar Idea
by Brian Cohen, John Kador
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CONTENTS
1 Angel Investing Is a Contact Sport
2 Early Stage Investing and Why Angels Are Your New Best Friend
3 Let’s Get to Know Each Other
4 What I’m Looking for in an Entrepreneur
5 What I Look for in the Pitch
6 Every Business Starts with a Belief
7 Investor Raising vs. Money Raising
8 Don’t Hurt the Ones Who Love You
9 Going Belly to Belly with Your Customer
10 Due Diligence and Do Diligence
11 Accelerators, Incubators, and Crowdfunding
13 Getting to No Is Just as Important as Getting to Yes
15 Baking in the Exit from the Beginning
B The New York Angels Term Sheet
C Five Indispensable Tools Founders Can Use to Do Due Diligence on Angels ...
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