What Do Angel Investors “Really Really” Want?
5 February 2009
Due to popular demand, Angels Den, the online matchmaking service which connects entrepreneurs to potential investors (www.angelsden.co.uk), is running an interactive workshop, entitled ‘What Angels Want!’, in central London on 25 February. Designed to help budding entrepreneurs get a kick start for 2009, this unique workshop will provide valuable information from successful entrepreneurs and insight from angel investors about what they really look for when investing in a business or new business idea.
Now the banks have shut up shop, equity funding is becoming the most popular solution for funding growing businesses. The experts, at the ‘What Angels Want!’ workshop, will be unravelling the secret world of Angel investing and showing companies how best to present their businesses to secure the funding that they need.
“We are passionate about helping our entrepreneurs as much as possible to get the funding they need to make their business a success. ‘What Angels Want!’ is one of the many ways in which we help entrepreneurs to get their business off the ground,” Bill Morrow, founder of Angels Den, said.
WhatAngels Want!’ will cover the inside track of Equity Funding including:
- Entrepreneurs’ first hand experiences
- How to build a great business
- Expert advice from a real life Angel Investor
- Pitching Practice
- Ask the experts panel session, ‘Preparing to get Funded’
“This is a fabulous opportunity to hear from those who have been there and to learn from their experiences. We promise not to fill you with formulas and jargon, your accountant can do that! This is a practical session, dealing with why Angels really invest and how to inspire them. There has never been a better time to get your business moving,” said Bill Morrow.
The workshop is part of a new programme of seminars that Angels Den is running to get fledgling businesses ‘investment ready’.
To attend, register with Angels Den www.angelsden.co.uk , then click the button ‘register and buy ticket’. The cost for the day long event, from 0815hrs – 1530hrs, including breakfast, lunch and all refreshments, is £150 plus VAT.
‘What Angels Want!’ is taking place at Nabarro’s offices, 84 Theobalds Road, London, WC1X 8RW. The nearest tubes are Holborn, Russell Square and Chancery Lane and the nearest railway station is Farringdon.
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For more information or to interview BillMorrow to find out his views on the business environment and how hisentrepreneurs and Angel Investors view 2009 please contact :- Frances Knox / Tracy Light, TJL MarketingT: 01582 464048frances@tjlmarketing.co.uk
Notes to Editors
- Angels Den www.angelsden.co.ukis an affordable (more than half the price of competitors), straightforward way (without the stuffiness of traditional angel networks) of connecting people requiring business funding with a potential investor.
- From just £99 an outline business plan can be posted online which is then accessed by the 2000 plus registered potential investors. The site has the largest number of angel investors in Europe. On average people who have submitted Business Plans have had at least one Angel meeting and some have had as many as seven Angels to choose from.
- Almost a fifth (17%) of Angels Den customers have received funding, ten times the national average, with an average investment of £220,000. The combined investment sum invested is more than £25m.
- Bill Morrow set up the company in May 2007, with co-founder Lois Cook, when he had trouble himself securing funding and wasted almost £15k on traditional angel networks.
- Angels Den has pioneered Speedpitching where entrepreneurs can give a three minute pitch to a business angel, seeing up to 20 angels at one event. Angels Den is the only company that offers individual pitches to entrepreneurs.The next Speedpitching event is on Wednesday 4 March in Central London from 6 – 9 pm.
- Angels Den complements the services offered by existing business angel groups by facilitating deals with a value of up to £500,000.
Frances Knox
TJL Marketing 5 High Street,
Harpenden
Hertfordshire
AL5 2SL
Tel: 01582 464048
