The lending market for small businesses cratered during the recession and has been on a jagged path of recovery. To help fill the void, entrepreneurs are finding alternative financing sources.
James Hunt, an angel investor and adjunct professor at Georgetown University's McDonough School of Business, shares his secrets on getting attention from financial backers.
There’s good news and bad news about angel investing. On the bright side, investments have stayed fairly stable in the angel-investing world as compared with venture capital’s recent decline. On the bad-news side, a new study from the Center for Venture Research shows a substantial proportion of angels have recently lost their taste for investing […]
Hidden in the recently proposed Restoring American Financial Stability Act of 2010 are a few provisions that would make it slower and tougher for entrepreneurs to connect with angel investors. That’s got some entrepreneurs and funders steamed, saying the changes could cripple angel investing at a time when traditional bank loans are hard to find […]
Bank loans have been hard to come by in the past two years, which has many small businesses looking for angel investors. In one sense, it’s an ideal market for angel investing–many sound business ideas, and even established businesses with orders in hand, can’t get a loan. Seems like a great opportunity for angels to […]