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<p>New page: If you're an emerging business with the subsequent wonderful product, often you want an angel on your side. A study by the University of New Hampshire's Center for Venture Study showed tha...</p>
<p><b>New page</b></p><div>If you're an emerging business with the subsequent wonderful 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 willing to invest in entrepreneurial organizations at an early stage - shelled out far more than $18 billion into early-stage firms final year alone, compared to $304 million by venture capitalists.<br />
Locating an angel investor, nonetheless, is not an effortless job. Safer Smokes Inc. is one firm that understands the challenge of attracting the right investors.<br />
This development-stage business is tapping the smoking cessation market with a special tobacco-totally free, nicotine-free smoke referred to as Bravo, which has the look of a classic cigarette and burns like tobacco, but is really made from lettuce fibers.<br />
"Bravo lets you smoke your way out of the tobacco habit progressively," stated Puzant C. Torigian, chief executive officer of Safer Smokes.<br />
For firms like Safer Smokes, it could be too soon to method large venture capital firms, yet time to move beyond networking with loved ones and buddies. 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 real investment opportunity," said Torigian.<br />
So how do organizations like Safer Smokes attract their angel?<br />
* Have a clear-cut target industry for your item or service. For instance, Safer Smokes is targeting the smoking cessation market place, which has sales approaching $10 billion per year, up from $6 billion just three years ago.<br />
Most angel investors favor firms that are most likely to show positive money flow within their very first 18 months, so getting these kinds of statistics about your market place can be an incentive.<br />
* Match the organization plan objectives to the angel's threat tolerance. Investors want to know the product or service will be unique and properly-cultivated. Safer Smokes has a patented solution that business officials say will "impact the landscape of the well being care industry." [http://www.ideaangels.com/ idea angels]</div>Thu, 26 Apr 2012 05:30:33 GMTHerefordBlanton700http://www.aalf.org/wiki/index.php?title=Talk:HerefordBlanton700