Ko su investitori koji nas posmatraju?
"An angel investor (known as a "business angel" in Europe, or simply an "angel") is an affluent individual who provides capital for a business start-up, usually in exchange for ownership equity.
Angels typically invest their own funds, unlike venture capitalists, who manage the pooled money of others in a professionally-managed fund.
However, a small but increasing number of angel investors are organizing themselves into angel networks or angel groups to share research and pool their investment capital.
Angel investments bear extremely high risk, and thus require a very high return on investment.
Because a large percentage of angel investments are lost completely when early stage companies fail, professional angel investors seek investments that have the potential to return at least 10 or more times their original investment within 5 years, through a defined exit strategy, such as plans for an initial public offering or an acquisition.
Current 'best practices' as taught by the Angel Capital Education Foundation in its 'Power of Angel Investing' seminar series suggest that angels might do better setting their sights even higher, looking for companies that will have at least the potential to provide a 20x-30x return over a five to seven year holding period.
After taking into account the need to cover failed investments and the multi-year holding time for even the successful ones, however, the actual effective internal rate of return for a typical successful portfolio of angel investments might, in reality, be as 'low' as 20-30%.
While the investor's need for high rates of return on any given investment can thus make angel financing an expensive source of funds, cheaper sources of capital, such as bank financing, are usually not available for most early-stage ventures."
Ovo je jos lepse sto nas je navelo na razmisljanje kako privuci strani kapital:
"While it is usually difficult to raise more than US$100,000 - US$200,000 from friends and family, most venture capital funds will not consider investments under US$1 - 2 million.
Thus, angel investment is a common second round of financing for high-growth start-ups, and accounts in total for more money invested annually than all venture capital funds combined (US$24 billion vs. $22 billion in the US in 2004, into 45,000 companies vs. 4,900 companies, according to the University of New Hampshire's Center for Venture Research)."
A OVO JE NAJPLEPSE OD SVEGA KO MISLI DA TREBA BITI "NAUCNIK ZA RAKETE" DA BI SE KAPITAL PRIVUKAO.Neka statisticki podaci kazu svoje:
"According to the Center for Venture Research, there were 225,000 active angel investors in the U.S. in 2005.
Beginning in the late 1980s, angels started to coalesce into informal groups with the goal of sharing deal flow and due diligence work, and pooling their funds to make larger investments.
Angel groups are generally local organizations made up of 10 to 150 accredited investors interested in early-stage investing."
Kompletan clanak se moze videti na sledecoj adresi:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Angel_investor
Nadamo se da smo malo otvorili oci takve kakve su nam u finansijskom smislu i da se polako dokazuje pravilo da NA OVOM SVETU IMA PREVISE NOVCA-NIKADA PREMALO.