Angel investing : matching start-up funds with start-up companies : the guide for entrepreneurs, individual investors, and venture capitalists

By Mark van Osnabrugge, R. Robinson. 2000

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Grounded capital: venture financing and the geography of the Internet industry, 1994–2000 (2002, background): “…informal investors who controlled $36 billion in capital in the late 1980s, Wetzel (1994) put the number at 250,000 investing $10±$20 billion per year and van Osnabrugge and Robinson (2000) estimate that there is $50 billion a year of entrepreneur and angel investment in very early stage companies.”
Barriers to investment in the informal venture capital sector (2002, background): “Indeed, most of the business angels in this study indicated that they will consider relaxing their investment criteria in certain circumstances, notably where the entrepreneur/management team has high credibility (table 9), con® rming other evidence that angels place much greater weight on the ` joc”
Show Me the Right Stuff: Signals for High Tech Startups (2013, unknown): “In particular, Van Osnabrugge and Robinson (2000) and DeGennaro (2010) show that business angels tend to consider characteristics such as commitment, trust, and enthusiasm more than do venture capitalists.”
Is it worth it? The rates of return from informal venture capital investments (2002, background): “8 The issue of business angel-venture capital fund complementarity was originally highlighted by Freear and Wetzel (1990) but in the context of types of investment (size and stage) and sequential funding, rather than coinvesting.”
Informal Investment in Canada: Financing Small Business Growth (2003, background): “Demographic profiles of informal investors in the United States have been reported by Gaston and Bell (1986), Wetzel (1983), Haar, Starr, and Macmillan (1988), and Van Osnabrugge and Robinson (2000).”
The Role of Angels in Technology SMEs: A Link to Venture Capital (2005, background): “Other works that attest to the importance of angels in various countries are those of (among others): Freear et al. (1997), and Van Osnabrugge and Robinson (2000) in the US; Harrison and Mason (1990, 1991) and Mason and Harrison, (1994, 1995a, 1995b) in the UK; Landström (1993) in Sweden; and…”
The impact of entrepreneurs' oral ‘pitch’ presentation skills on business angels' initial screening investment decisions (2008, background): “…entrepreneurs’ written investment opportunities, appeared to have been based on highly subjective factors such as ‘intuition’ and ‘gut feel’ (Kahn 1987; Hall and Hofer 1993; Mason and Rogers 1996, 1997; Van Osnabrugge and Robinson 2000; Douglas and Shepherd 2002; Mason and Harrison 2003).”