In the twenty-seventh episode of Angel Impact we conclude a discussion about all of the ways people can become involved in angel investing, even if they are not an actual angel investor.

There is room and demand for many types of professionals in this network and they include:

5. A network that you can personally leverage

6. You are an entrepreneur with an idea for an innovative and scalable business

7. Share expertise with entrepreneurs in an advisory role

8. Serve as an interim and/or part-time C-level employee for a startup

Do you have expertise to share with the WRBA network?  Let us know by taking the survey at: https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/YHWNQZM 

Angel Impact is the official investment podcast of the Wisconsin River Business Angels (WRBA)

To join the Wisconsin River Business Angels so you can provide capital and mentoring to more great companies visit our website at www.midwestwealthventures.com and our Facebook page at https://www.facebook.com/WRBAngels

In the twenty-sixth episode of Angel Impact we begin a discussion about all of the ways people can become involved in angel investing, even if they are not an actual angel investor.

There is room and demand for many types of professionals in this network and they include:

1. Become an angel investor if you meet the SEC’s definition of accredited investor

2. Sharing industry-specific related expertise with entrepreneurs

3. Participating in the education and development of beginning entrepreneurs

4. Financial institutions who work with startups or equity investing

Do you have expertise to share with the WRBA network?  Let us know by taking the survey at: https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/YHWNQZM

Angel Impact is the official investment podcast of the Wisconsin River Business Angels (WRBA)

To join the Wisconsin River Business Angels so you can provide capital and mentoring to more great companies visit our website at www.midwestwealthventures.com and our Facebook page at https://www.facebook.com/WRBAngels

In the twenty-fourth episode of Angel Impact we conclude a conversation with Jeff about 5 common misconceptions about angel investing and what the truth actually is.

Angel Impact is the official investment podcast of the Wisconsin River Business Angels (WRBA)

To join the Wisconsin River Business Angels so you can provide capital and mentoring to more great companies visit our website at www.midwest wealthventures.com and our Facebook page at https://www.facebook.com/WRBAngels

In the twenty-third episode of Angel Impact we begin a conversation with Jeff about 5 common misconceptions about angel investing and what the truth actually is.

Angel Impact is the official investment podcast of the Wisconsin River Business Angels (WRBA)  To join the Wisconsin River Business Angels so you can provide capital and mentoring to more great companies visit our website at www.midwest wealthventures.com and our Facebook page at https://www.facebook.com/WRBAngels

In the twenty-second episode of Angel Impact we conclude a conversation comparing angel investing to mutual funds and why it is important for serious investors to understand and use both to preserve and build wealth.

You will learn:

1. Why mutual funds capital profiles prevent them from investing in smaller companies, and why this is an important role for angel investors

2. Why it is important for small companies to diversify their equity holders

3. How different kinds of capital investors play along different parts of the funding continuum

4. Why angel investors are SO important for young startups

5. A fun and interesting story about where the term “angel investor” comes from

6. How Jeff and Leon guide investors to diversify their portfolios

7. Key differences in liquidity between mutual funds and angel investments

8. How the SEC ensures that only accredited investors end up in the angel space

9. One final key difference between mutual funds and angel investing that makes the latter very challenging AND rewarding

Angel Impact is the official investment podcast of the Wisconsin River Business Angels (WRBA)  To join the Wisconsin River Business Angels so you can provide capital and mentoring to more great companies visit our website at www.midwest wealthventures.com and our Facebook page at https://www.facebook.com/WRBAngels

In the twenty-first episode of Angel Impact we continue a conversation comparing angel investing to mutual funds and why it is important for serious investors to understand and use both to build and preserve wealth.

We cover:

1. Advantages of mutual funds

-security

-simplicity

-ease

-diversity

-values

2. Angel investing and recessions

3. Why entrepreneurs thrive during market disruption, and how this is beneficial for angel investors

4. How angel investments are able to be nimbler than mutual funds and avoid the destructiveness of mob mentality

Angel Impact is the official investment podcast of the Wisconsin River Business Angels (WRBA)  To join the Wisconsin River Business Angels so you can provide capital and mentoring to more great companies visit our website at www.midwest wealthventures.com and our Facebook page at https://www.facebook.com/WRBAngels

In the twentieth episode of Angel Impact we begin a conversation comparing angel investing to mutual funds and why it is important for serious investors to understand and use both to preserve and build wealth.  We cover:

1. Why a very small percentage of companies have a positive return, even within mutual and index funds

2. Why investing in stocks is susceptible to mob mentality

3. How you have control over your portfolio’s valuation as an angel investor

4. How startups are able to have more dramatic growth than many stocks and mutual funds

5. How the benefits of angel investing mitigate the potential risks in different ways that mutual and stock index funds

6. The significance of being able to influence the valuation of portfolio companies as an angel investor but not a mutual fund or stock investor

7. Why it is important to balance your portfolio with a variety of investment strategies and why we encourage investors to diversify their portfolios in a very specific way that includes passive and active investing

8. The fact that angel investing allows you to more actively build your community than other kinds of investing

Angel Impact is the official investment podcast of the Wisconsin River Business Angels (WRBA)  To join the Wisconsin River Business Angels so you can provide capital and mentoring to more great companies visit our website at www.midwest wealthventures.com and our Facebook page at https://www.facebook.com/WRBAngels

In the eighteenth episode of Angel Impact we introduce you to one of our member investors and talk with him about why he values the Wisconsin River Business Angels, its leadership, the other members, and some of the important contributions he makes to the success of the group.  You will learn:

1. How members like Jay typify the WRBA’s deployment of “smart money” to their portfolio companies through both their capital and business experience

2. How Jay’s specific expertise allows him to support WRBA portfolio companies by diagnosing the root cause of their cash flow issues

3. A few of the unique qualities of good angel investors, beyond their net worth

4. Why WRBA members like Jay serve their portfolio companies with their PASSION for nurturing in addition to their capital contributions

5. How Jay’s experience allows him to ask great questions during process of evaluating and guiding young companies to success

6. What Jay and other members of the WRBA appreciate and respect about the way Jeff and Leon lead and coordinate the group

7. The value that Jeff and Leon bring to the members of the WRBA through their leadership, guidance, personalities, passion, and inclusive collaborative approach

Angel Impact is the official investment podcast of the Wisconsin River Business Angels (WRBA)  To join the Wisconsin River Business Angels so you can provide capital and mentoring to more great companies visit our website at www.midwest wealthventures.com and our Facebook page at https://www.facebook.com/WRBAngels

The sixteenthn episode of Angel Impact is about what Leon learned in Japan.  In this solo episode you will learn:

1. The number of different countries Leon has worked in

2. How acquiring a global perspective has helped Leon to become a more effective angel investor

3. A fascinating story from Japan that taught Leon important lessons about cultural differences and how they effect the valuation of a product and company

4. The number of times the marketplace needs to hear a message in order for people to understand it

5. The linguistic differences Leon noticed in attempting to communicate to the marketplaces in European and Asian countries and how that affected marketing plans

6. Why cultural differences must be translated into value calculations and how this is important for angel investors to understand

7. Why marketing is entirely about focusing on the customer and their emotions

8. How Leon’s global perspective and experience allows him to be a valued expert to scalable companies in the WRBA portfolio and guide them to better decisions

9. The piece that is most often missing in companies’ product offerings and how Leon helps entrepreneurs to include it, both in terms of preventing unexpected loss and seizing on unexpected gains

10. Why companies need to consider both problem solving and customer emotions for their offerings to be successful in the marketplace

11. Why the Planned Innovation protocol used by the WRBA helps to quantify the value of the emotive component more quickly and accurately than any other due diligence tool we have found

12. Why the emotive component is chronically misunderstood by entrepreneurs leading to both marketplace failures and unrealized financial returns  

13. A concrete example of considering the valuable emotive components in a well-known global brand

14. How understanding emotive components set you apart in the marketplace

15. Why emotive components often seem vague and amorphous, but are actually possible to precisely quantify and value

Angel Impact is the official investment podcast of the Wisconsin River Business Angels (WRBA)  To join the Wisconsin River Business Angels so you can provide capital and mentoring to more great companies visit our website at www.midwestwealthventures.com and our Facebook page at https://www.facebook.com/WRBAngels

In the seventeenth episode of Angel Impact we introduce you to one of our member investors and talk with him about why he values the Wisconsin River Business Angels, its leadership, the other members, and some of the important contributions he makes to the success of the group.  You will learn:

-Meet Jay, hear about his career experience, his investment history, how he currently spends his time.

-How investing with the WRBA is different from other investing Jay has done.

-What Jay tends to see in the portfolio companies in which the WRBA considers for investment and what he helps them think about.

-The special and unique challenges Jay sees with angel investing that are different from other kinds of investing.

-Why Jay values the other members of the WRBA and how their diverse backgrounds and collaboration work for the success of the angel group and their portfolio companies.

-How the members of the WRBA are motivated not only by financial return, but also economic growth, job creation, and the success of small businesses in their communities.  

Angel Impact is the official investment podcast of the Wisconsin River Business Angels (WRBA)  To join the Wisconsin River Business Angels so you can provide capital and mentoring to more great companies visit our website at www.midwestwealthventures.com and our Facebook page at https://www.facebook.com/WRBAngels