The Investor Community provides you with a place to view and rate & review deals. Whether feedback is positive or negative and whether the deal is local or all the way across the country, your feedback is valuable! As more and more member provide negative feedback, other investors won’t waste their time looking at the less interesting deals, and the good deals will rise to the top.
Also, as you build a reputation as a great deal reviewer, other Angel groups will begin to know who you are and what types of deals you like. The Investor Community becomes your private community to establish your expertise , reputation, and trust as an investor.
1) Start with the Deal Dashboard:
If you do not know how to find the Deal Dashboard for a deal in the Investor Community, please view the Basic Guide to the Investor Community tutorial.
2) Scroll to bottom to find Ratings & Review section:
3) Click “Rate & Review this deal”:
4) Enter in your ratings for each category:
5) Type up a review with all your opnions on this deal:
Here is where you can establish your credentials. The more valuable your feedback, the more other investment groups will appreciate your work. The more thoughtful your reviews, the more you will establish your area of expertise in the eyes of the early stage investment community.
The Investor Community can be used as a source of extra deal flow for your investment group. As you navigate from deal to deal putting in Ratings & Reviews, if you find a deal that might interest your investment group, you can simply refer it back to your group. With the click of a button, you can send a copy of this deal to the new submissions folder of your group on Angelsoft, where it is then ready to go through your group’s investment process.
1) Find the Deal Dashboard:
If you do not know how to find the Deal Dashboard for a deal in the Investor Community, please view the Basic Guide to the Investor Community tutorial.
We congratulate Stephanie Hanbury-Brown for winning the 2008 Hans Severiens Award at the ACA Summit in San Diego. Stephanie is the founder of GoldenSeeds, which invests in women-led and women-run organizations. This award is quite prestigeous in the angel investment community and Stephanie is truly worthy of the award in how she has not only promoted and advanced angel investing for women, but the angel investing community as a whole.
Stephanie had the following comments on her experience with Angelsoft:
By popular demand, Angelsoft held its first User Group meeting on May 7th as part of the Angel Capital Association annual conference in San Diego.
There were over 50 people at the standing-room only event, with groups coming from as far as Central America, Maine, Canada, and New Zealand.
The feedback had been that our users really wanted to hear from other users, so we let them do the talking. Our CEO, David S Rose, kicked off the user group meeting with an introduction and very energetic presentation of the Angelsoft vision. After that the users took over.
We’re proud to announce Angelsoft 2.7, released on Friday. In this release we’re finally fulfilling two of our longest standing user requests. We’re starting to give group managers some tools to record, track, and export group information. We’ve also made some important server upgrades to boost up speed.
All in all we’ve had 358 improvements, of which 9 are new features, and 197 are bug fixes.
Learn all about your deal flow and member activity with Deal and Member Reports (accessible from the Group Admin tab):
Select Time Period - Use our built-in calendar to select a Start and an End date for your report.
Customize Report - Use simple radio buttons to select the types of information you’d like to see. Find the answers to these questions:
How active are my members?
Who’s investing and who’s not?
Which deals are the most active?
Which deals are the highest rated?
How much are we investing in each deal?
How much have we invested in 2008?
What’s the contact information of all recently submitted deals?
And more…
Sort by Column - Click on any column header to sort report according to that column.
Download for Excel (CSV) - Download either the Full Report, or the Customized Report as a CSV file for Excel.
EXPANDED MEMBER PROFILES
Trust is everything in the world of angel investing. Better Member Profiles, visible to other group members, are one way to achieve it. The profiles now include:
Investor Bio - Members can tell us about themselves in their own words.
Contacts & Secondary Contacts - Never lose touch with your members. Members may use either their primary or secondary email in message forums.
LinkedIn Profile - Encourage members to post their LinkedIn profile on Angelsoft!
Investment Portfolio - Previous investments will show on each member’s profile.
Investment Interests - Investors can select industries of interest.
Experience & Expertise - Investors can select industries and areas of expertise.
Participation Preferences - Investors can select group participation preferences, including doing Due Diligence, and Leading Deals.
Admin-Only Notes - Administrators can add notes to any member profile, which will only be visible to other administrators of that group.
ADDITIONAL IMPROVEMENTS
Angelsoft is F-A-S-T-!! - A server upgrade has noticeably reduced loading times across the board. Try it for yourself!
Share Multiple Deals - Refer or Co-Invest from the Deal List now work for multiple deals selected at once.
New Features Announcements - Click on the New Features link on the top left corner of the page to read new feature announcements on our blog.
As always, we look forward to your input on the new features. Tell us how you’re using them, or how we can improve them for you!
We met Tevel Angels right after their first meeting in New York about 8 months ago. Since then, they have held several meetings and have adopted Angelsoft. This article sheds some light on both Tevel Angel Club, and what its like looking for and finding overseas investment dollars.
Women2.0 held their annual event this past weekend at Stanford and over 300 attendees came to watch 5 tech companies with over 50% female ownership pitch. Here are some pictures from the event.
Congratulations to the Koolage, who won the main prize, and to Gaiagy, who won the People’s Choice award for the event. Koolage took home a prize of over $15,000 in business services and a private meeting with Esther Dyson, CEO of EDventure and serial angel investor (member of the NY Angels). Included in the package was a free submission to the Investor Community!
Here is a great article for those unfamiliar with angel investment looking to learn more.
Thanks to Rick Holdren for pointing the article out to me. I ran into Rick, a long time angel investor and user of Angelsoft, at the ACA Annual Summit when he mentioned he was recently quoted in Business Week. Rick is a Houston based health care angel who invests all over the world, and travels 200+ days of the year in search of new deals and outside investment in deals he is already participating in.
What I found interesting in the article is the case study of one certain entrepreneur who is also an angel investor. As a member of a RAIN Fund, he received investment in his own venture from his co-investors from the fund network.
