Where Angels Dare To Tread

Business angels are calculated risk takers, intelligent investors and venture financiers who offer hope to businesses up and down the land. And for their contribution to the success of countless new businesses, we believe they should be more publically thanked. So stop a business angel in the street today, shake their hand and give them a pat on the back for a job well done.
 
These investment mavericks know no fear; when funding a new business in these uncertain times, business angels need to use all their accumulated acumen to select the right opportunities or run the risk of losing the funds invested from their own pockets. In this day and age it is a task fraught with far more snakes than ladders.
 
Often having achieved substantial success in their own commercial lives, business angels have decided to devote their time to helping others to succeed in theirs. By funding a new business or two, or more, they help keep the British economy alive. When the banking sector was in good health it would have been rare to have heard the exploits of such individuals, but since the virtual collapse of the traditional business investment sector, business angels have been growing in both number and importance.
 
Even in a recession businesses are launching, growing and developing new products and services, all of which require investment capital to succeed. By funding a new business an angel will be providing a much needed boost to the prospects of that venture, employment for its workforce and trade with all the companies in its supply and distribution chains. In funding a new business, business angels are doing their bit to help us out of recession and giving new ventures life where there otherwise would have been only despair.
 
Business angels are often feared to be much like their pantomime caricatures on a popular BBC2 show (off the air at the moment, but no doubt being repeated on a secondary channel near you). Portrayed revelling in the terror they instil in those in front of them, whilst funding a new business often seems to take a backseat to entertainment value and television ratings. Real business angels are not like this at all. Their aim is to fund a new business that both needs the help and can achieve great things with the injection of capital. To be able to draw out the information they need from the entrepreneur pitching to them, business angels know that they need to gain their confidence. Success will mean immense financial rewards for everyone, as this would be realised by a business going public within a few years after a meteoric rise, but failure will mean never seeing the funds again.
 
To those who are funding a new business right now, or intending to do so in the near future, we salute you. The British economy is richer for your assistance and by picking up the slack left by the failing banking sector you have slowed our economic descent and prepared us for a brighter financial future.
 
Thank a business angel, hug a business angel, shelter a business angel under your umbrella in the rain. Do something today to give a little back to those who help our businesses to succeed.