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Carl Grant on business: finding a guardian angel for your business
Written by: Carl Grant
We recently introduced a new recurring feature on our blog called “Carl Grant on Business.” These posts feature videos of ACG National Capital’s own Carl Grant, the Executive Vice President of Business Development for Cooley, LLP, discussing important topics for business students and young entrepreneurs.
In his most recent videos, Carl discusses angel investing for small, start-up enterprises. Angel investors are usually individuals that are unaffiliated with banks, private equity firms or other investment or financial company that invest their own personal money into a company. Angel investors are becoming increasingly popular in fundraising and can be extremely important in standing up a new enterprise.
In his first video, Carl sheds his tie and gets down to business, discussing how small companies can find and attract angel investors that they don’t already have relationships with:
In his second video in the series on angel investing, Carl dives into important questions that start-ups will most likely face from potential angel investors, including corporate valuation:
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Great advice Carl. Finding people you know, where there is mutual trust and respect, is the most efficient and best way to find angel or seed funding. However, one must be ready to accept the potential strain on the relationship if the business does not perform as expected. The entrepreneur needs to build in the assumption that the investor will eventually, typically within three to five years, want thier money back, with a return of course, so the return of capital needs to be part of the plan.