Educating the Members

Hello, this is Hall T. Martin with the Startup Funding Espresso -- your daily shot of startup funding and investing.

In running an angel group, it’s important to educate the new members on how to invest in startups.

Most new members will not have experience with startup funding.

It’s important to set up an education program for the members.

The members will receive education through the process of screening the deals, negotiating the terms, and diligencing the startups.

In addition, there should be formal training on key issues such as how to assess potential investment opportunities.

The training should cover the basics of angel investing as well as the following topics:

1. Term sheets including key terms, deal structures, and concepts.
2. Valuations, including how to figure valuation and negotiate with startups.
3. Due diligence topics such as financial analysis, market review, and team assessment.
4. Capitalization tables and how to read them.
5. Portfolio strategy and how to build a portfolio of startup investments.
6. Investment returns in startups and how to calculate them.
7. Board work and how to support the startup as a board member.

While there is a great deal of information on the web, there should be an organized approach to covering these topics and allowing members to ask questions.


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On this episode of Investor Connect, Hall welcomes Giuseppe Liberati, Executive Director at Bridging Value, Board Member of the Houston Angel Network, and Author of “Next: How to Innovate From Within”.

Headquartered in Houston, Texas, and founded in 2012, Bridging Value has successfully helped global startups, business units, and small-to-large global organizations facilitate product, organizational and ecosystem activation and transformation.

Fluent in five languages, Giuseppe is a global visionary change agent, offering more than 20 years of expertise in driving business into new markets internationally and swelling market share. He is a board member of the Argentina Texas Chamber of Commerce and the Colorado School of Mines Materials Department.

Giuseppe opened new market channels in the USA, Europe, and Latin America from Hydrogen FCEV, to advanced water treatment, to industrial retail solutions, to O&G engineering and management, expanding clients business by three times the average.

He established relevant strategic partnerships between Fortune 500 companies, created four international brands, earned nine patents, and co-authored six international papers.

Giuseppe shares with Hall what excites him now, advises startups and investors, discusses the state of startup investing, and what he thinks will be the biggest change we will see in the next year or two.

You can visit Bridging Value at www.bridgingvalue.com, via LinkedIn at www.linkedin.com/company/bridging-value/, and via Twitter at www.twitter.com/bridging_value.    

Giuseppe can be contacted via email at giuseppe@bridgingvalue.com, and via LinkedIn at www.linkedin.com/in/liberati/. 

You can purchase his book from www.amazon.com, www.barnesandnoble.com, and other digital platforms.

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For more episodes from Investor Connect, please visit the site at: http://investorconnect.org  

Check out our other podcasts here: https://investorconnect.org/ 
For Investors check out: https://tencapital.group/investor-landing/ 
For Startups check out: https://tencapital.group/company-landing/ 
For eGuides check out: https://tencapital.group/education/ 
For upcoming Events, check out https://tencapital.group/events/  

For Feedback please contact info@tencapital.group   

Please follow, share, and leave a review.

Music courtesy of Bensound.