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<p>New page: If you're an emerging firm with the subsequent fantastic product, at times you want an angel on your side. A study by the University of New Hampshire's Center for Venture Analysis showed t...</p>
<p><b>New page</b></p><div>If you're an emerging firm with the subsequent fantastic product, at times you want an angel on your side.<br />
A study by the University of New Hampshire's Center for Venture Analysis showed that "angel investors" - high-net-worth men and women prepared to invest in entrepreneurial companies at an early stage - shelled out a lot more than $18 billion into early-stage firms last year alone, compared to $304 million by venture capitalists.<br />
Discovering an angel investor, nonetheless, is not an simple process. Safer Smokes Inc. is a single business that understands the challenge of attracting the right investors.<br />
This improvement-stage organization is tapping the smoking cessation market with a special tobacco-cost-free, nicotine-free smoke called Bravo, which has the look of a classic cigarette and burns like tobacco, but is really produced from lettuce fibers.<br />
"Bravo lets you smoke your way out of the tobacco habit gradually," stated Puzant C. Torigian, chief executive officer of Safer Smokes.<br />
For organizations like Safer Smokes, it may possibly be also soon to approach large venture capital firms, however time to move beyond networking with household 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 via to the true investment chance," stated Torigian.<br />
So how do businesses like Safer Smokes attract their angel?<br />
* Have a clear-cut target marketplace for your item or service. For instance, Safer Smokes is targeting the smoking cessation market, which has sales approaching $10 billion per year, up from $6 billion just 3 years ago.<br />
Most angel investors favor businesses that are likely to show positive money flow within their initial 18 months, so getting these sorts of statistics about your market place can be an incentive.<br />
* Match the organization strategy objectives to the angel's threat tolerance. Investors want to know the item or service will be unique and nicely-cultivated. Safer Smokes has a patented answer that organization officials say will "impact the landscape of the well being care market." [http://www.ideaangels.com/ idea angels]</div>Sun, 29 Apr 2012 18:10:20 GMTBertramWhitman406http://beta.aalf.org/wiki/index.php?title=Talk:BertramWhitman406