This is the best time for Angel Investors to partner with entrepreneurs, since the early stage investment community is going through a radical change. VCs find it very challenging to relate to early stage ventures and their Founders, and these VCs are more likely not entrepreneurial. Angel Groups who used to promote entrepreneurialism have been acting more like traditional VCs. Individual Angel Investors with strong business skills and extensive operations experience are in the ideal position to bring about the financial and operational revitalization needed to create new businesses.
Many retired successful business people and downsized seasoned business professionals have experience and money to help a new company get off the ground or mature it to sustainability. These same people also naturally understand how to participate in operational decisions without the desire to micro-analyze a spreadsheet for every decision because they know what it took for them to get where they are today. Younger companies face too many issues that require gut instinct from experience. Only a few people truly fit the mold of understanding what it takes to be an entrepreneur, and only a few more have the money and sense of opportunity and excitement to participate in the rebuilding of businesses across the world.
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Author: Brian Javeline
