Individual accredited investors in typical angel deals put personal capital at risk for an equity share of growth-oriented, start-up companies. These angel investors generally invest $25,000 to $100,000 in a round totaling $250,000 to $1,000,000.  A local network of angels is critical to achieving a diversified portfolio.  MORE >>

After the popularity of my top 10 VC blogs posting last week, I decided to post a list of all of the VCs and angel investors that I read. I'm sure there are more early-stage investors out there that I'm not aware of so please let me know who I've missed. He also uploaded it to Share Your OPML. MORE >>

So how do angel investors fall on this question? My bias, as an angel investor: other things being equal, yes. And of course there will always be exceptions, but, in general: Unless proven otherwise, a lot of investors would agree with my bias in the second paragraph. Angel investors are all individuals. MORE >>

The assumption has been that companies with 500 investors are quasi-public anyway, and for disclosure and other reasons should be forced to go public when the shareholder number approaches this limit. Raising $1000 each from 1000 investors would surely seem to violate current SEC regulations. The U.S. This is not a new rule-of-thumb. MORE >>

Understand what investors are looking for , what they usually invest in, and why. There are many good books on this subject, and you owe it to yourself to read at least one of them before you begin talking to angels. This is the case for two reasons: first, because the bare fact is that investors simply do not fund ideas. MORE >>