Angel Investing, Entrepreneurship & Learning

If you are an entrepreneur or an angel investor and haven’t seen the new FundingUniverse digs, you need to check it out!

About 6 months ago, we started on a journey to build a service that accomplished one major goal: GET DEALS DONE. With that goal in mind, our team (led by Matt Bradley) started the performing in-depth customer research; surveys were conducted, informal interviews were organized, and customers were contacted. In addition to the customer research, a benchmarking study was also arranged in order to study out some of the most effective and most successful online subscription services (i.e. Ancestry.com, Monster.com, WallStreetJournal.com, eHarmony.com, and more).

After 4-6 weeks of research and product planning, we began the development process. Trent Miskin led the development efforts that included revamping the entire FundingUniverse brand/website and creating subscription services for both entrepreneurs and angel investors.

So how do our services help to get deals done?

• The entire system is built around a proprietary rating system that we have developed to analyzed each of the business plans that have been posted on FundingUniverse. The rating system analyzes 4 key areas:

1. Management Team
2. Market Opportunity
3. Sustainable Competitive Advantage
4. Traction

• Angel Investors: because of the implementation of the rating system, investors will now enjoy the convenience of pre-screened deal flow. The top-rated plans will be at the top of the InvestorGallery making it easier for them to find those deals that are AngelReady.

• Entrepreneurs: the rating system provides you valuable feedback on how your plan stacks up to all of the other plans in the nation. Based on your rating score, we will do 1 of 2 things: 1) Your plan will be pushed to our investor base through the website, VideoPitching, LivePitching, and SpeedPitching. 2) We will recommend that you continue to polish and refine your business/investment opportunity by taking advantage of our AngelReady Subscription or our AngelReady Consulting Packages.

I’m totally stoked about the AngelReady monthly membership for entrepreneurs. If you are seeking to raise angel capital (or will be in the future), the package will shorten your learning curve and provided needed exposure to angels. The package includes:

1. Valuable Feedback: get your idea/business plan rated once a month. Also see how many angels are looking at your plan.
2. Education: participate in a weekly online chat and a monthly online webinar with expert angel investors.
3. Exposure: record and upload a VideoPitch.

Bottom line: entrepreneurs will be more prepared and will receive more exposure + investors will more conveniently find good deals = MORE DEALS DONE!