Understanding Angels

Marc Weiser, Managing Director, RPM Ventures

Often an entrepreneur’s first funding comes, not from a venture capitalist, but rather from an individual—an investor with an interest in a particular business sector or in a promising business person. The reasons that this “angel” provides funding are very different from those of an institutional VC firm, and the resulting expectations are different as well.

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