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Seed Capital From Angel Investors: Padmaja Ruparel, President, Indian Angel Network (Part 6)
By guest authors Irina Patterson and Candice Arnold Irina: Do entrepreneurs have to have previous senior executive experience? Padmaja: No. They need to have two things. One is an understanding of the domain, and the other is a bit of a complementary skills within the team. You don’t want to be investing only in a
Seed Capital From Angel Investors: Padmaja Ruparel, President, Indian Angel Network (Part 5)
By guest authors Irina Patterson and Candice Arnold Irina: How many investments have you made in the past 12 months? Padmaja: Within the past 12 months we would have done five. Irina: And how much do you usually invest per deal? Padmaja: We’re touching $400,000 to $500,000 per investment.
Seed Capital From Angel Investors: Padmaja Ruparel, President, Indian Angel Network (Part 4)
By guest authors Irina Patterson and Candice Arnold Padmaja: There are other entrepreneurs whose plans we look at and play the devil’s advocate, punch some holes, and have the entrepreneurs really improve their presentations and really make them more investable. Or make them more palatable to investors. We make them think through their numbers, operations,
Seed Capital From Angel Investors: Padmaja Ruparel, President, Indian Angel Network (Part 3)
By guest authors Irina Patterson and Candice Arnold Irina: How many investments resulted from that competition? Padmaja: This whole program was really to inspire entrepreneurship in the country. A large number of them benefited from the mentoring. In fact, every single person who was declined was given specific feedback as to why he or she
Seed Capital From Angel Investors: Padmaja Ruparel, President, Indian Angel Network (Part 2)
By guest authors Irina Patterson and Candice Arnold Irina: What are your current sources of deal flow? Padmaja: There are various sources. One is, of course, our own members. For each of them, if you look at our website and go through the profiles of our investors, you can see that they themselves are brands
Seed Capital From Angel Investors: Padmaja Ruparel, President, Indian Angel Network (Part 1)
By guest authors Irina Patterson and Candice Arnold This is the eighth interview in our series on seed financing and angel investing. I am talking to Padmaja Ruparel, president of Indian Angel Network. She is based in New Delhi, India. Irina: Hi, Padmaja. Let’s start with your telling us a little bit about yourself. Padmaja:
