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Get the business insight that has raised millions in capital funding for over 50,000 entrepreneurs.

If you're an entrepreneur or own a small, fast-growing businesses, Angel Capital provides a complete toolkit for raising capital in today's challenging economic landscape. The authors, who manage the largest angel network in the U.S., offer real-world advice on how to find investors and take control of the private placement process. Using revolutionary typology and unmatched proprietary research, they explain all stages of raising capital, from valuation to negotiation to due diligence. In addition, you'll find a comprehensive directory of alternative capital resources, based on research of over 2,000 organizations, and a legal appendix that serves as a short course in exempt offerings and provides the skills needed to have success with any early-stage business venture or investment. Order your copy today.

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Fast track route to understanding the business of angel investing. Covers the key areas of angel investing from understanding the inefficiencies of the marketplace and the evolution of the industry to developing a successful angel investing practice. Examples and lessons from some of the world's most active private equity marketplaces, including the United States, Europe, Asia, the Middle East, and Australia. Includes a glossary of key concepts and a comprehensive resources guide.

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Whether you're interested in raising capital for a start-up or looking for expansion capital to grow a small, established company, access to capital on the right terms is critical to your success. As a primary source of capital for early-stage and growing companies, private investors or "business angels" are a vital resource for today's entrepreneur. However, most small business professionals have limited knowledge about the angel equity market, business angels, the private equity investment process, and how deals get done. That's why you need Angel Capital: How to Raise Early-Stage Private Equity Financing.

Angel Capital offers the extensive expertise of Gerald Benjamin—creator of the largest network of private investors in the country and Senior Managing Partner of International Capital Resources, a firm recognized as the leader in accessing and cultivating relationships with angel investors—and Joel Margulis.

Filled with in-depth insight and real-world advice, this comprehensive guide provides an inside look at the emergence and creation of a capital market that could potentially finance your dreams, and describes the manner in which successful entrepreneurs must go about the business of raising capital. From examining every stage of raising capital to uncovering a segment of high-net-worth investors specifically interested in financing earlier-stage, developmental-stage, and expansion-stage ventures, Angel Capital covers everything you need to know to tap into the capital your venture needs.

Throughout the course of this book, you'll receive an executive education that will help you understand: How entrepreneurs are creatively addressing the challenges of practicing capitalism in the face of a significant capital gap Who "Angel Investors" are, where they can be found, and what they look for—their criteria and their expectations The types of resources and tools—both past and present—that help entrepreneurs deal with the formidable task of raising capital The angel investment process—from due diligence and valuation negotiations to potential exit strategies

Angel Capital also includes information-packed appendices filled with a how-to workbook on drafting and presenting an investor-oriented business plan; a legal primer on securities law issues for the layperson; and a suggested reading list for those who would like to continue their education in entrepreneurial finance.

Crafted to benefit entrepreneurs in planning, managing, organizing, executing, and monitoring the effectiveness of their capital raising endeavors, Angel Capital will provide you with the skills needed to penetrate one of America's largest capital markets.

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