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<p><b>New page</b></p><div>If you're an emerging company with the next excellent item, often you need to have 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 people willing to invest in entrepreneurial companies at an early stage - shelled out far more than $18 billion into early-stage companies last year alone, compared to $304 million by venture capitalists.<br />
Obtaining an angel investor, nevertheless, is not an easy activity. Safer Smokes Inc. is 1 firm that understands the challenge of attracting the right investors.<br />
This development-stage business is tapping the smoking cessation marketplace with a distinctive tobacco-cost-free, nicotine-totally free smoke named Bravo, which has the look of a classic cigarette and burns like tobacco, but is truly made from lettuce fibers.<br />
"Bravo lets you smoke your way out of the tobacco habit progressively," said Puzant C. Torigian, chief executive officer of Safer Smokes.<br />
For firms like Safer Smokes, it might be also soon to approach huge venture capital firms, but time to move beyond networking with loved ones and pals. Angel investors to the rescue.<br />
"The challenge for raising capital in today's market place is in harnessing the courage and vision of the angel to see by way of to the actual investment chance," stated 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 example, Safer Smokes is targeting the smoking cessation market place, which has sales approaching $ten billion per year, up from $6 billion just 3 years ago.<br />
Most angel investors favor companies that are most likely to show positive money flow inside their very first 18 months, so having these types of statistics about your market can be an incentive.<br />
* Match the enterprise strategy 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 answer that organization officials say will "influence the landscape of the health care sector." [http://www.ideaangels.com/ idea angels]</div>WinnyEccles940