This book will give you the Inside Secrets of how the rich get richer by investing in entrepreneurs, funding innovation, and generating job growth. Everything we know about investing in private companies, owning a part of multiple companies without operating them, has changed.
Never before has there been a better time to invest in private companies to help bring innovation to the market, create jobs, and create wealth.
We call that Compassionate Capitalism.
One Inside Secret:
The point is that the wealthy smart investor, the "millionaire next door," has already made his or her money before the public knows the company exists to put their order into their stockbroker. He or she is an an active Angel Investor that invests in private companies, in addition to real estate and public stocks.
The buzz is about CrowdFunding. Angel Investing is more than that. Angel Investing can create passive income, even generational wealth if you learn to invest like a venture capitalist - with discipline and specific intent.
Why buy this book?
This book provides a step-by-step approach to finding, evaluating, and making an angel investment in private companies before they go public or grow big enough to be acquired. It is chock full of Inside Secrets based on Karen's 15 years' experience and conversations with hundreds of investors - 44 Inside Secrets to be exact. Get complimentary membership in the National Network of Angel Investors and gain exclusive access to the Investor Resource portal with tools you will use as part of your investor journey - worth over $900. A glossary is included to help you learn the lingo - hundreds to terms to be 'in the know'. Invest with confidence as you add this highly lucrative asset class to your investment portfolio. Karen will take you through the history of angel investing, the economic impact and the trends that drive the market, and even the regulations that create a bubble or pop it. She describes the role that angel investors can play in an entrepreneur endeavor, depending on the amount of time and money they have available to invest. Karen has even made the whole process of finding deals, evaluating them, and ultimately closing the deal easy to understand by comparing it to how we find a mate - from introduction, to the first date, courtship and ultimately marriage -or not;).
With over 300 pages, this book is full of practical information, keen insights, applicable quotes from industry experts, and detailed next steps in each chapter.
If you have thought about diversifying your investment portfolio beyond real estate and traditional stocks & bonds, and desire to have a real impact on bringing innovation to the market and creating jobs as a crowdfund investor or angel investor, this book is a must have.