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<p>New page: If you are an emerging organization with the next excellent product, often you want an angel on your side. A study by the University of New Hampshire's Center for Venture Study showed that...</p>
<p><b>New page</b></p><div>If you are an emerging organization with the next excellent product, often you want an angel on your side.<br />
A study by the University of New Hampshire's Center for Venture Study showed that "angel investors" - high-net-worth folks prepared to invest in entrepreneurial firms at an early stage - shelled out far more than $18 billion into early-stage businesses last year alone, compared to $304 million by venture capitalists.<br />
Obtaining an angel investor, nonetheless, is not an simple task. Safer Smokes Inc. is 1 organization that understands the challenge of attracting the right investors.<br />
This improvement-stage business is tapping the smoking cessation market place with a exclusive tobacco-totally free, nicotine-free smoke referred to as Bravo, which has the appearance of a traditional cigarette and burns like tobacco, but is in fact created from lettuce fibers.<br />
"Bravo lets you smoke your way out of the tobacco habit gradually," said Puzant C. Torigian, chief executive officer of Safer Smokes.<br />
For companies like Safer Smokes, it may possibly be too soon to method large venture capital firms, yet time to move beyond networking with loved ones and close friends. 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 by way of to the true investment chance," said Torigian.<br />
So how do businesses like Safer Smokes attract their angel?<br />
* Have a clear-cut target industry for your product or service. For instance, Safer Smokes is targeting the smoking cessation market, which has sales approaching $ten billion per year, up from $6 billion just 3 years ago.<br />
Most angel investors prefer firms that are likely to show positive money flow inside their initial 18 months, so getting these types of statistics about your market can be an incentive.<br />
* Match the organization program objectives to the angel's threat tolerance. Investors want to know the item or service will be distinctive and properly-cultivated. Safer Smokes has a patented solution that organization officials say will "have an effect on the landscape of the wellness care sector." [http://www.ideaangels.com/ company formation]</div>Thu, 26 Apr 2012 06:38:55 GMTMargaretheBegin925http://beta.aalf.org/wiki/index.php?title=Talk:MargaretheBegin925