What every angel investor wants you to know : an insider reveals how to get smart funding for your billion dollar idea / Brian Cohen and John Kador.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Cohen, Brian, author.

Contributor:

Kador, John, ed.

Series:

McGraw-Hill's AccessEngineering

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Capital investments.

Investments.

New business enterprises.

Genre:

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

New York, N.Y. : McGraw-Hill Education, [2013]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

"When you connect with the right angel investor, it's like finding a new best friend--you just have to know what makes him or her happy. Smart funding is waiting for smart founders. Raising funds is all about connecting with the investor who's right for you--and What Every Angel Investor Wants You to Know shows you exactly how to succeed. Veteran early-stage investor Brian Cohen knows how to spot a great company destined for success, and in this groundbreaking book he offers soup-to-nuts guidance for any entrepreneur seeking to launch an invention, a product, or a great new idea into a receptive marketplace. As chairman of the board of directors of the New York Angels, Cohen is one of the most engaged angel investors out there today. The first investor in Pinterest, he describes exactly what angels want to see, hear, and feel before they take out their checkbooks: A clear exit strategy before the startup even launches ; facts that turn "due" diligence into "do" diligence; authenticity--"save your spinning for the fitness center"; [and] proof that you "live inside the customer's head." Cohen gives invaluable insight into how the most successful angels view due diligence, friends and family money, crowdfunding, team building, scalability, iteration, exit strategies--and much more." -- Publisher's description.

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

Linkedin

Gust

Angellist

Techcrunch

Quora

D. Own your venture equity simulator

E. Acknowledgments

F. About the authors

G. About the new york angels.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Electronic reproduction. New York, N.Y. : McGraw Hill, 2013. Mode of access: World Wide Web. System requirements: Web browser. Access may be restricted to users at subscribing institutions.

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Other Format:

Print version: What every angel investor wants you to know : an insider reveals how to get smart funding for your billion dollar idea.

ISBN:

9780071800716 (print-ISBN)

0071800719 (print-ISBN)

9780071800723 (e-ISBN)

0071800727 (e-ISBN)

OCLC:

850704242

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license.