angel capital
‘The Buck Starts Here’ podcast
In the final days of September 2005, Anthill editor Paul Ryan caught up with five of Australia’s leading early-stage venture capitalists. The meeting turned into a feature story. The feature story turned into a networking event, which we offered as a fly-on-the-wall audio CD. Now you can download/listen to it as a full podcast, which includes the previously unreleased Q&A session.
Ahoy! Finance for growth
For ambitious businesses seeking investment dollars for expansion, the high seas of capital raising are as turbulent as they are vast. With so many ‘X ’s marking so many spots, can a business builder walk the plank without getting wet? Jana Matthews charts a course for companies at all stages of development. Why do so [...]
Lend me your wings
Is there anywhere angels fear to tread? To be an angel investor, you need personal wealth, a sense of adventure, a pretty strong stomach, and most importantly, a good eye. So what do they look for? We picked the brains of three prominent insiders. Bill Payne Angel Investor and Entrepreneur-in-Residence, Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation (Kansas [...]
Strategy: Attracting capital – are you ready?
The statistics are disturbing. A typical venture capital (VC) firm receives around 1,000 business plans a year, and quickly rejects 90% without a detailed review. The problem is not a shortage of investment funds — money will always be available for promising investment opportunities. Rather, most entrepreneurs do not understand the expectations and requirements of [...]
The Entrepreneur vs. Venture Capitalist
A meeting of minds or clash of heads? It is little wonder that only a small proportion of investment proposals ever successfully attract venture capital. The relationship between entrepreneurs and investors can sometimes be likened to the relationship between contestants in a boxing match, entering the ring from opposite corners, both adamant they are up [...]
Memoirs of a tech wreck insider
It’s now four years since the ‘tech-wreck’ of April 2000. Four years!!! Can you believe it? Yet, it’s so hard to move on. We continue to talk about it, romanticize it, lament it, tut-tut at our folly. And we definitely can’t stop writing about it. Like the unnamed narrator in Joseph Conrad’s Heart of Darkness, [...]
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