Posts tagged "angel investing"

YouNoodle.com Calculates How Much Your Startup Will Be Worth in 3 Years

YouNoodle.com is a tool you can use to calculate the value of your startup in three years based on the characteristics of its team.

Monday 2 August 2010

Never Let Someone Else Write Your Business Plan

Letting someone else write your business plan is almost always unnecessary and almost certainly unwise.

Tuesday 27 July 2010

The Insanity of Angel Investors

The best Angels help the businesses they invest in immeasurably. They recognize good teams when they see them. They offer mentoring, advice, encouragement and occasionally a harsh word that keeps an entrepreneur focused, effective and motivated. Good angels are few and far between, but they are entirely worth looking for.

Monday 19 July 2010

Lessons From the Gulf: The Very Sad Case for Failure Analysis Before Disaster Strikes

I think every businessman currently watching the events in the Gulf winces at what appears to be a series of critical failures in the safety nets designed to protect us and our environment.  It is hard to anticipate just how severe the fallout from this catastrophe might be, how many people may be effected, how [...]

Tuesday 18 May 2010

Living Without Air: Ship Early, Ship Little, Ship Fast

Ship Early, Ship Little, Ship Fast. This article explores why startup companies should focus on creating products with a small feature set that is completely integrated with the outside world.

Monday 22 March 2010

Growing a Successful Social Enterprise

Date: 19 January 2010
Time: 12:00 pm to 8:00 pm
Location: The Royal Institution, London

Following the huge success of our seminars around the UK, Doug and the School for Startups team are returning to The Royal Institution. This must-attend event is for aspiring social/ethical entrepreneurs as well as existing small social/ethical businesses wishing to grow and become more successful and sustainable.

Thursday 24 December 2009

The Startup & The Scammer: A Real Story

Tell me what you think of this story. Last week I wrote about the unethical behaviour of so-called professionals involved in charging companies to help them obtain funding, get investment ready, or write their business plans. I closed by saying if you had head of anyone engaged in such practices to let me know.
This week [...]

Monday 2 November 2009

UK Startups are Prey for Rip Off Artists Disguised as Angel Groups & Financiers, says Doug Richard

“Just to be clear . . . start-ups should not be charged to pitch their businesses to angel investors. . . . Corporate financiers do not make their money on [upfront] fees but by taking a percentage of the money raised.”

Sunday 1 November 2009

The Price of Money Part 4: Say No, No, No, No Till Your Tongue Bleeds

I have been writing a series of articles recently entitled “The Price of Money” that grew out of my unease that people neither understood how great the cost of capital is nor the enormous difficulty involved in pricing capital. I was further dis-enchanted by the rhetoric amongst government ministers reciting mantras of entrepreneurship and access [...]

Saturday 31 October 2009

What Angel Investing & 1 Night Stands Have In Common

I am supposed to be the investor not the CEO. If I’m solving the problems before the investment, what’s going to happen afterwards?

Friday 30 October 2009