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<p><b>New page</b></p><div>If you're an emerging business with the next excellent item, occasionally you require an angel on your side.<br />
A study by the University of New Hampshire's Center for Venture Research showed that "angel investors" - high-net-worth men and women prepared to invest in entrepreneurial companies at an early stage - shelled out more than $18 billion into early-stage businesses final year alone, compared to $304 million by venture capitalists.<br />
Obtaining an angel investor, nonetheless, is not an straightforward process. Safer Smokes Inc. is a single firm that understands the challenge of attracting the appropriate investors.<br />
This development-stage organization is tapping the smoking cessation market place with a exclusive tobacco-free, nicotine-totally free smoke known as Bravo, which has the look of a conventional cigarette and burns like tobacco, but is actually produced from lettuce fibers.<br />
"Bravo lets you smoke your way out of the tobacco habit steadily," stated Puzant C. Torigian, chief executive officer of Safer Smokes.<br />
For companies like Safer Smokes, it may possibly be too soon to approach large venture capital firms, however time to move beyond networking with family and pals. Angel investors to the rescue.<br />
"The challenge for raising capital in today's marketplace is in harnessing the courage and vision of the angel to see via to the real investment opportunity," said Torigian.<br />
So how do companies like Safer Smokes attract their angel?<br />
* Have a clear-cut target market place for your product or service. For instance, Safer Smokes is targeting the smoking cessation marketplace, which has sales approaching $ten billion per year, up from $6 billion just 3 years ago.<br />
Most angel investors favor organizations that are most likely to show positive money flow inside their very first 18 months, so getting these types of statistics about your industry can be an incentive.<br />
* Match the company program objectives to the angel's threat tolerance. Investors want to know the product or service will be exclusive and properly-cultivated. Safer Smokes has a patented resolution that organization officials say will "impact the landscape of the well being care sector." [http://www.ideaangels.com/ idea angels]</div>CheathamLivingston868