Review
“A comprehensive primer for an angel investor. Regardless of experience, The Angel Investor’s Handbook provides invaluable strategies, tools, and insights.” — Timothy E. Mahoney, Chairman and CEO, vFinance.com, Inc.”Captures the essence of what an angel investor is and the underlying motivations that make angel investors tick.” — John Ason, Board member, New Jersey Entrepreneurs Network,Charter angel, New York New Media Association”Offers clear and hands-on advice on pri…
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Gerald A. Benjamin and Joel Margulis tell the current or prospective angel or early-stage investor how to best judge pre-IPO investments. They emphasize matching investors with the right entrepreneurs to create an effective team in which the investor not only provides the seed or early-stage capital but also contributes good advice and contacts. Besides discussing effective strategies, the book includes an extensive directory of top venture forums, angel organizations, publications and Web sites. In addition, any investor will benefit from the thorough rundown of due-diligence points that the authors recommend. While the book is targeted at prospective investors, we […] encourage entrepreneurs with start-up companies to use it as a productive guide to making more effective funding pitches, although the companion book for entrepreneurs would probably be more helpful. One caveat: Some ideas are repeated – even with similar wording – from chapter to chapter. But overall this is a solid book, even though the free flows of money it evokes have been arrested somewhat lately.
The book contains a lot of very valuable information. It is geared primarily towards the investor who wants to explore angel investing, i.e. private investmentment in early-stage enterprises. The book does a good job in explaining the risks, necessary time commitment and potential benefits of angel investing. Thankfully, it is not of the ‘how to get rich easy’ kind. On the negative side, the book repeats some of its points ad nauseam and is not a stylistic masterwork.