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Business Angels
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Business angels are an important source of capital to early-stage ventures. They invest in high-potential companies and entrepreneurs who are unlikely to be able to raise more debt or to attract financing elsewhere. Business angels invest at the early stage of the venture creation process, when the venture is not likely to be viable without the direct participation of the entrepreneur. In most cases, business angels believe that their direct involvement in the company after investing significantly will increase the likelihood that the venture will be successful. Business angels are important not only to entrepreneurs and new ventures but also to the local economy, and their importance in stimulating new technological ventures is increasing.
Who Are Business Angels?Entrepreneurs starting businesses need to invest money ahead of ...
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- Championing Corporate Ventures
- Change Management: Corporate
- Corporate Entrepreneurship and Innovation
- Corporate Venturing
- Crisis Management: Corporate
- New Product Development
- Accounting
- Agility and Rapid Response
- Business Plans
- Championing New Ventures
- Cognition
- Commitment and Persistence
- Competitive Intelligence
- Creativity
- Credentials
- Entrepreneurial Orientation
- Knowledge
- Learning
- Negotiating Strategies
- Networks
- Obstacle Identification
- Passion
- Risk Management
- Selling Products and Services
- Time Management
- Business Failure
- Change
- Cognition in Experts and Novices
- Communication Styles
- Discovery and Exploitation
- Emotions
- Intentions
- Locus of Control
- Overconfidence
- Planning Fallacy
- Tolerance for Failure
- Goal Setting
- Human Resource Strategy
- Labor Costs
- Labor-Management Relations in Start-Ups
- Leadership
- Leadership: Training and Development
- Leadership: Transformational
- Managing Human and Social Capital
- Team Composition
- Women's Entrepreneurship
- Work-Life Balance
- Advertising
- Business-to-Business Marketing
- Competition
- Contextual Marketing
- Customer Orientation
- E-Commerce
- Entrepreneurial Marketing
- Focus Groups
- Licensing
- Market Evaluation
- Market Orientation
- Positioning a New Product or Service
- Retailing
- Target Markets
- Test Markets
- Wholesale Markets
- Creativity and Opportunities
- Entrepreneurship Education: Graduate Programs
- Entrepreneurship Education: High School
- Entrepreneurship Education: Undergraduate Programs
- Entrepreneurship Pedagogy
- Ethics
- Master of Business Administration
- Opportunity Development
- Opportunity Identification and Structural Alignment
- Opportunity Recognition
- Opportunity Sources
- Search-Based Discovery
- Start-Up Teams
- Systematic Search
- Entrepreneurs in Consumer Products
- Entrepreneurs in Energy
- Entrepreneurs in Entertainment
- Entrepreneurs in Finance and Banking
- Entrepreneurs in Food
- Entrepreneurs in History
- Entrepreneurs in Media
- Entrepreneurs in Real Estate
- Entrepreneurs in Technology
- Entrepreneurs in Transportation
- Bankruptcy
- Barriers to Entry
- Barter
- Business Angels
- Business Models
- Capitalism
- Cash Flow
- Community/Government Buy-Ins
- Credit
- Debt
- Debt-Based Financing
- Entrepreneurial Support Systems
- Entrepreneurial Training
- Equity- and Debt-Based Financing
- Exit Strategies
- Feasibility Studies
- Geographic Location
- Growth
- Information
- Initial Public Offering
- Job Creation
- Public Policy: Government Stimulation of Start-Ups
- Research and Development
- Revenue: Current versus Deferred
- Selling Successful Businesses
- Strategy
- Venture Capital
- Venture Management Firms
- Venture Valuation
- Entrepreneurs in Franchising
- Franchisee and Franchisor
- Franchises: Legal Aspects
- Franchises: Starting
- Territorial Strategy and Regions
- African Americans and Entrepreneurship
- Gender and Acquiring Resources
- Gender and Industry Preferences
- Gender and Performance
- Hispanics and Entrepreneurship
- Minorities in New Business Ventures
- Motivation and Gender
- Women's Entrepreneurship: Best Practices
- Geography of Innovation
- Innovation Advantage
- Innovation Diffusion
- Innovation in Low-Tech Industries
- Innovation Management
- Innovation Management: Corporate
- Innovation Measurement
- Innovation Processes
- Product Innovation
- Radical and Incremental Innovation
- Service Innovation
- Culture and Entrepreneurship
- Globalization
- Import/Export Businesses
- International Enterprise Planning
- International Markets
- International New Ventures
- Measures of Entrepreneurial Activity across Countries
- Political Economy and Entrepreneurship
- Branding
- Contracts and Trust
- Incorporation
- Partnerships
- Patent Protection
- Taxes
- Trademarks
- Adaptation
- Boards of Directors
- Distribution
- Family Business
- Family Business: Defining
- Family Business: Research
- Family Business: Stewardship
- Family Business: Theory
- Home-Based Businesses
- Human Resources
- Infrastructure
- Insurance
- Location Strategy
- Quality
- Sales
- Stakeholders
- Succession Planning
- Measures of Performance
- Microfinance
- Network Ties
- Social Capital
- Social Entrepreneurship
- Social Intelligence
- Social Networks
- Sustainable Development
- Incubators
- Management Information Systems
- Technology Transfer
- University Start-Ups
- Agency Theory
- Cognition Theory
- Cognitive Schemas and Scripts
- Human Capital Theory
- Knowledge-Based View
- Learning Theory
- Performance and Legitimacy
- Psychological Views
- Resource-Based View
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