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A Business fishing rod (rarely also enterprise angel) is an experienced entrepreneur or a leading employee, who due to its professional activity valuable experience and long-range contacts has. With your capital, know-how and contacts enterprise angels would like to support existence founders with the establishment of its enterprise. They do this in a phase, which appears usually too early venture Capital societies for an entrance. In principle they behave however conformal to venture Capital societies and a little selbstlos.

To invest in this early phase into an enterprise the prospect should face their high risk on appropriate net yields, in order to participate at a fast increase in value of the enterprise. Therefore enterprise angels invest mostly in growth branches such as IT, Multimedia and Life Science. Gladly they are ready to let their know-how and its contacts flow into the enterprises (like for example a Coach). Therefore one calls its capital also intelligent capital.

The local proximity and a bond of trust between existence founders and enterprise angels are substantial. Alternatively or parallel to the business development business plan competitions are accomplished. In particular the enterprise angel offers only once more sensitive handling the ideas and strategies to the existence founder.

Enterprise angels are frequently in networks organized. In Germany there are approx. 40 networks with often regional development. They serve as approach place for capital searching enterprises and manufacture the contact to aptitude enterprise angels. Basic condition for a first contact are usually the business plan or a presentation. No certificates or standard for these enterprise angel networks exist e.g. over sensitive handling ideas and strategies within the network.

See also

  • Private Equity
  • Entrepreneurship

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