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What’s Life Like For Would-be Entrepreneurs These Days?

In uncertain economic times,  Wharton Entrepreneurship Conference experts tell VCs and entrepreneurs the Internet is still a solid platform to launch a business. The trick is learning how to use the Web as a valuable business tool.

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The 10 Commandments of Raising Venture Capital

By David V. Alhadeff, Managing Partner of Velocity Capital 

There’s no one right way to find equity funding. But Venture Capitalist David V. Ahladeff thinks you can improve the odds by following his 10 Commandments of raising venture capital ...read more

Where the Gold is Buried

By Mike Roer, Publisher of Angel Investor News

Entrepreneurs can still raise money in these difficult times – the trick is knowing where the gold is buried. ...read more

Emerging Trends in Robotic Integration

By Bennett Brumson

Robotics integrators are customizing their systems to accommodate specialized manufacturing trends. Learn the latest trends and the hot industries that are expanding the use of robots...read more

Building a Business Plan: A Road Map to Success

By Dan Mitchell

Executive Director of ACE-Net

Consider your business plan a road map to drive your business where you want it to end up. Too many start-ups lack a solid plan or direction. In business, you don’t stumble onto success without a plan. Dan Mitchell, Executive Director of ACE-Net helps readers build a successful business plan from scratch ...read more

10 Tips To Weather a Stormy Business Climate

Discover 10 Tips from Tatum CFO Partners of Atlanta to rethink your business model and weather a stormy business climate.  ... read more

The Schooling of VCs

 By Frank Szivos

Young Venture Capitalists at the Yale Graduate School of Management are learning the ins and outs of the VC world outside the classroom by running Sachem Ventures, a VC firm which has closed one deal and considering several others.  ... read more

The Global Technology Revolution

By Philip S. Anton, Richard Silberglitt, James Schneider

The Global Technology Revolution is right around the corner and Nanoscience is revolutionizing how almost everything from computers to automobile tires are designed and made. Read how this might all happen in the Introduction from "The Global Technology Revolution: Bio/Nano/Materials Trends and Their Synergies with Information Technology by 2015"...read more...

Want to Draw Investors, Build Your Company’s Intellectual Portfolio?

By Dennis Fernandez and Charles Cella

In Silicon Vally and other prime tech centers, investors are funneling seed money and early-stage investment funding into emerging high-tech companies. To draw some of that start-up capital, companies should have their intellectual property portfolio in line. ...read more

Seven Things You Need To Have A Successful Business

by Peter Hupalo

Certain businesses put the chances of success in your favor. Other businesses stack the chances of success against you. Here is a list of seven things that you should consider when starting your own company... read more

Japan’s Economic Outlook Remains Gloomy But 

Opportunities Exist for Investors

For more than a year, U.S. and European investors have witnessed the decline of equity markets and watched their once-healthy portfolios take on a more emaciated appearance. But things could be worse for these investors: They could have invested in Japan throughout the 1990s...read More

Biometric Publications

The Functions of Biometric Identification Devices

The term "biometric authentication" refers to the automatic identification, or identity verification, of living individuals using physiological and behavioral characteristics. Biometric authentication is the "automatic", "real-time", "non-forensic" subset of the broader field of human identification. There are two distinct functions for biometric devices:

1.     
1. To prove you are who you say you are.

2. To prove you are not who you say you are not.

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Looking for Investors in All the Right Places?
By Dee Power
Special to Angel Investor News

Entrepreneurs and investors, both venture capitalists and angel (private) investors sometimes have very different perspectives. And while the dot.com mania of last year has faded, there are venture capital funds that must be invested, angel investors that want to invest and entrepreneurs looking for capital. But are they looking for the same things in the right places...read more

CHINA AND THE WORLD TRADE ORGANIZATION
By Paul B. Edelberg, Esq.
Special to Angel Investor News

The recent explosion of trade between China and the United States is primarily due to the conversion of China's state controlled system to a market system and the openness of China's existing government to promote foreign trade. This remarkable growth in international trade is about to take a giant leap forward with the accession of China to the World Trade Organization ("WTO")...read more

ACE-NET On Investment

ACE-Net offers a wide array of services for entrepreneurs and private investors. As part of those services, Dan Mitchell, executive director of ACE-Net, answers questions regarding investment issues. Here are some questions our readers have posed...read more

Nanotechnology: Atomic Engineering Presents Big Investment Opportunities
By Tim Harper, CEO of CMP Cientifica

Engineering experts believe nanotechnology (engineering on the atomic scale) will have a more far-reaching impact than the silicon integrated chip with many more applications than electronics. In 2001, world wide governments have already pumped about $1.5 million in research money. Nanotechnology is expected to revolutionize certain areas, such as tools, semiconductors, pharmaceuticals and materials. Investing in these key technologies could generate significant income in the next three to five years, experts say...read more

Negotiating in Tough Times

By John May and Cal Simmons

In this tough economic climate, term sheets favorable for the entrepreneur have become extinct.  In a sobering counterbalance to the heady days of the NASDAQ boom, valuations have dropped, and investors demand full ratchet provisions on down rounds and tough antidilution requirements on up rounds.  While this may be bad news for the entrepreneur, it is good news for the angel investor who can find good deals at low prices. No matter what side of the table you happen to sit on, however, negotiating term sheets is an important step in the investment process. ..read more

Want to Reach Entrepreneurial Heaven? 

Ask an Angel

Published with permission from Knowledge@Wharton

Adam Breslin readily admits that before he was ready to put his business plan to the test, he was looking for a little help from above. But Breslin wasn't banking on divine intervention, he was simply courting angels.

Breslin's courtship with so-called angels–the earliest of early-stage investors–resulted in investments from seven sources totaling more than $1 million for his Washington, D.C.-based company, Pinpoint Training, which he founded four months ago with partner Lawrence Berger...read more

Biometric Technology Overview
International Biometric Group, a leading biometric integration and consulting firm.

The use of biometric technology is expanding rapidly, entering an increasing number of physical security (door, buildings) and logical security (PCs, networks) applications. Biometric technology is the use of a physiological or behavioral characteristic, such as a fingerprint or voice pattern, to verify or identify a person.

Several factors are working synergistically to broaden the feasibility of large scale deployments of biometric technology. Although our Market Report addresses these issues in detail, some primary factors include the decreasing cost associated with biometric solutions, as finger scan readers now are available in the $100 range, and very high quality devices for under $200; the speed with which a biometric transaction can be completed, as most 1-to-1 verification takes place in less than one second; and the non-obtrusive, ergonomic design incorporated into many of the new biometric readers and technologies...read more

ACE-Net Headed In New Directions

By Frank Szivos, Editor Angel Investor News

Access to Capital Electronic Network, better known as ACE-Net, has a new face and new direction as it evolves from a government-based national marketplace for investors to a private non-profit service.

Dan Mitchell, ACE-Net Executive Director, sees the transition as a dramatic step forward in the growth of the organization that has service operators in 48 states. The U.S. Small Business Administration Office of Advocacy launched ACE-Net in 1995 and nurtured it until it became self-sufficient. Mitchell says privatizing ACE-Net is a natural step in the evolution of the organization ...(readmore)

Due Diligence: 

The Critical First Step for Angel Investors
By Matthew J. Cherry, President of Intelex, Ltd.

Matthew J. Cherry, a due diligence expert, explores the nuances of due diligence in a six-part series. In an introduction of due diligence, Cherry shows why it's critical for angel investors to do their homework before backing any companies. Checking out potential companies beyond their financial numbers at the beginning makes for smart investing...(read more)

Partnering with Angel Investors 

By Ralph Kroman
Weir & Foulds
(416) 947-5026

What is an Angel Investor?

Individual private investors who invest in entrepreneurial companies are commonly and affectionately known as "angel investors". They prefer to take an equity position in the company either directly through the issuance of shares or indirectly through...(read more)

Private Venture Investing: "Questions an Investor Should Ask"  

by Cam Crawford

Some private investors learn lessons the hard way - by trial and error. The romance of private investing can quickly fade because of investor cash calls, poor results and overly optimistic projections. You can reduce the risk before plunking down one thin dime by asking the right questions....(read more)

Do’s & Don’ts of Web Retailing  

by David L. Taylor, Ph.D

In 1999, most Web retailers wanted to be the next Amazon, or Yahoo, or eBay. Many spent uncontrollably on advertising and promotions to achieve their goal. Not surprisingly, many Web retailers, with their go-for-broke ad campaigns, got just what they were going for. In 2000, layoffs among Web retailers already reached tens of thousands of workers, with hundreds of B2C Web businesses closing forever. For 2001...(read more)

Good Things in Small Packages - Nanotechnology

Tin crystals promenade across copper, stopping now and then to trade places with a counterpart, using choreography akin to the "camphor dance" - a phenomenon first observed in 1686. The discovery of dancing tin, reported 24 November 2000 in Science's  Nanotechnology Issue, may promise surprisingly efficient nanomotors, if researchers can harness this chemical locomotion system...(read more)

Even in Bad Times, Good Ideas Get Funding

A year ago, big-time venture capitalists were such revered individuals that you expected some enterprising entrepreneur would put their faces and track records on trading cards. People like Ann Winblad of Hummer Winblad Venture Partners and John Doerr of Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers were on their way to achieving rock star status.... (read more)

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