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Tech Investors is typically high net worth individuals, with a wide range of investments in technology sectors. The average age of an investor is middle-aged and they typically have a lot of capital to invest. The average venture capital investors’ net worth is six figures and they typically own their own profitable businesses. Tech investors have been a great investment opportunity for the past decade, but as with all investments there are risks involved. The most common investment type for tech investors is an early-stage venture capital. Venture capital represents the blue chip, high end investment that most successful entrepreneurs are willing to back.
As venture capitalists, these investors are willing to take a chance on less than perfect ventures. They are usually more risk adverse than institutional investors, so they are more conservative when it comes to backing new businesses. This allows them to offer a more personalized and customized investment approach. However, venture capitalists are not blue chip investors. Their goal is to make a killing on every investment they invest in and you need to be able to offer a high return on your venture capital as well as a high risk to the venture.
In order to attract the attention of the venture capital community, you must be able to present yourself as a highly aggressive and innovative company within the technological investment market. One way to do this is to demonstrate that you have products or technologies that are transforming industry areas. Most successful tech investors tend to invest in companies within two to five industries that they understand and one that they see will have a tremendous market impact within a few years.
Another way to gain the attention of the crowd is to show the world that you have sound patent concepts that could result in groundbreaking new business applications. Many tech investors will focus on obtaining at least one patent in their field of expertise. If you can show the world that you have sound patent concepts that could result in new business applications, you have a much better chance of securing a tech investor’s investment. This is referred to as “due diligence” and it is a critical part of the search for a good venture capital partner. Proper due diligence also involves spending the time to evaluate the technology or industry in which you believe you have strong ideas.
When working with private equity groups as an angel investor you are not always investing in your own company. In fact, most of the time it is difficult to know what to do in this capacity because these types of transactions often involve a large amount of money. There are angel groups that invest in companies in which the company has no significant product or service. In such circumstances, these investors focus on acquiring a company that has substantial value based upon the market value of the underlying stock. As you can imagine, there are some people who prefer investing in larger-cap stocks while there are others that are comfortable investing in small cap stocks. Regardless of the type of investing that you choose to do as an angel investor, the key to success is identifying a company with great entrepreneurial ideas and developing a strategic partnership in order to fund and grow the business.
The second area in which I see too many angel investors failing miserably is in alt tech companies. Alt tech companies is one that has the following attributes: a product that is not well known, a business model that is less than successful (unproven), or a market that is not large enough to warrant significant investment. Alt tech companies typically don’t generate the same amount of venture capital that more mainstream companies do. In addition, these companies typically don’t generate the type of steady income that more traditional companies do. Alt-tech companies are not for the dying, but they are not yet “mainstream” either. As such, they require additional resources from you as their investor in order to make a significant profit.
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