Are You Ready To Turn Your Business Over To Angel Investors?
Getting a Business loan at your bank is a terribly difficult task these days regardless if you are in Canada or the United States. Because of this many businesses feel they need to seek the operating cash they need from Angel Investors. But are you ready to turn your business over to an Angel Investor?
Banks will look at you company from one perspective while Angel Investors will look at it from another. They will want a minimum of 5 to 10 times their investment back when they pull out. The time frame that they want to be involved with your company varies between 1 to 5 years. They calculate the deal based on liquidation factors such as stock offerings, liquidation of assets or hostile takeover.
Due to the current market conditions in our economy Angel Investors are looking for higher than a 10 times ROI. This is because of all the business failures versus the successful ones. When you consider the failure rate in the Angel Investor portfolio, the effective ROI for a successful Angel Investor is about 20% to 30%.
Because of this high return on investment, Angel Financing is very expensive, but the lesser costing funds such as banks and credit unions are rarely available for new business start-ups. This is because the traditional financiers have a high threshold for accepting young companies for Business Loans.
At this point, you have been turned down by the banks and credit unions plus the Angel Investor proposal does not look very attractive, so what do you do now?
Reality is it does not matter if you are in Canada or the United States you do have options. Here I will give you a real example of a business that found the best option. There is a company in Alberta Canada that was looking to expand throughout North America with their product. The owner of the company went to the usual channels to get Commercial Financing. After he was turned down by the banks he the spoke to some Angel Investors and received proposals. After considering what was at steak by accepting the proposals he decided to continue looking for options. This is when he and I met over the internet and I presented him with options he had never considered, nor heard of for that matter. Accounts Receivable Factoring and Purchase Order Finance.
At the time when we had initially spoken, he had just shipped out nearly 70% of his stock and had an order to fill the following week that would exhaust his inventory. At this point he would have to wait until the customers paid for the orders prior to ordering more inventory. Biggest problem with that is that he had other orders to fill, but no stock and no money to get more stock.
Within a week of his initial application the company was funded and he now had the operational funds needed to operate his business smoothly.
In short, if your company has been turned down by the banks and credit unions plus there is no comfort for you in dealing with an Angel Investor due to their terms, be sure to check with a Professional Commercial Finance Broker so they can put together the proper financing for your business.
Wade Henderson – recognized Professional – 15 yrs in the Business Finance Field – strong reputation for getting the deal done. IMMFinancial.com venture investors venture investment You are welcome to reprint this article – but get your own unique content version here.