Angels Den Blog

No matter where you live in the world, and no matter how hard you may have tried, you could not have escaped the media fest that has been the election trail of the US presidency – much the same mud-slinging contest as it always has been, but with one rather surprising twist. Barack Obama, at just 47 years old, son of a Kenyan goat herder (who later became a senior economist in the Kenyan Ministry of Finance), grandson of the Nyang’oma Kogelo village chieftain, became America’s first black president, arguably the single most powerful man on the planet.

Much has been made of Barack Obama’s race, both throughout the campaign and now that he has won, but what I find amazingly inspirational is the resurrection of the American dream from the dusty attic it’s been hiding itself away in for quite a number of years now – the dream that says no matter what background you come from, you have it within yourself to succeed. Economically, politically, financially, globally, you’d have been hard pushed to find anyone with a good word to say about the US in recent years. Maybe with a fresh face (and for a man in his position, 47 seems mighty fresh faced) at the helm we’ll see a new America emerge like the soaring eagle it has always liked to think of itself as. But when President Obama officially takes his seat in the Oval Office in January, the reality of the colossal mess the country is in may well be a bitter pill to chew on (it’s one of those soft and chewy pills not the crunchy type, but bitter none the less) for a while. Let’s hope that the fight he has in front of him does not knock the youth and zeal out of him and leave him jaded.

We may not feel the effects of this historic event directly here in the UK for a little while, but what I hope will sweep its way across the Atlantic is a massive wave of the “anything is possible” attitude that has been benched recently in the wake of the global credit crunch. Youth is not a barrier to success, inexperience is not a barrier to success, and lack of funds is certainly not a barrier to success. What Barack has shown us is that if the son of a goat herder can become president there is nothing to hold you back from achieving your own personal successes and goals.

If you have a brilliant business idea, invention or small business that you believe could and should be hugely successful, we at Angels Den would be delighted to hear from you. We specialize in putting brilliant ideas together with the people who can make it all happen. Our Angel investors are looking for motivated, enthusiastic success stories in the making – like yours – to commit their funds and sometimes their expertise and extensive influence to. Lets hope that Barack Obama’s successful race to the White House inspires not just a new age in American history and world economics, but a wave of “anything is possible” belief that will create many, many new individual success stories.

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