What Every Angel Investor Wants You to Know: An Insider Reveals How to Get Smart Funding for Your Billion Dollar Idea

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What Every Angel Investor Wants You to Know: An Insider Reveals How to Get Smart Funding for Your Billion Dollar Idea

What Every Angel Investor Wants You to Know: An Insider Reveals How to Get Smart Funding for Your Billion Dollar Idea

Authors: Brian Cohen and John Kador

Published: March 2013

eISBN: 9780071800723 0071800727 | ISBN: 9780071800716

Cover

Title Page

Copyright Page

Contents

Foreword

Introduction

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

12 It’s All About Teammanship

13 Getting to No Is Just as Important as Getting to Yes

14 Iterating the Startup

15 Baking in the Exit from the Beginning

A: Due Diligence Checklist

B: The New York Angels Term Sheet

C: Five Indispensable Tools Founders Can Use to Do Due Diligence on Angels

D: Own Your Venture Equity Simulator

Acknowledgments

Index