Make Angel Investments That Go 10x, Unleashing Monster Returns for a Family Juice Business

Angel Investing – Entrepreneurs, Founders, Business Startups, Early-Stage Businesses, Lead Investors, Making Your First Angel Investments  - Series 2, Episode 1

I look for angel investments that have the potential to produce a 10x return on my investment in 5 years. Startup investing is one of the more risky investment categories. Therefore, you should expect these businesses to have the possibility of doing well. If you invest in 10 businesses, and nine of them fail, the remaining business needs to give you a 10x return just to break even. Ideally, you will do better than that and enjoy healthy returns.  

Hansen’s Fruit and Vegetable Juices started as a family business in 1935. Decades later, the company was acquired for $14.5 million in 1992. In 1997, it was already listed on the public stock exchange as a NASDAQ small cap. This is when they first entered the energy drink market. In 2002, they made a slight modification that changed the energy market. They started selling energy drinks in a large can. 

This energy drink, “Monster” launched in April 2002. In 2003, their sales passed the $100 million dollar mark. Sales were $98 million in 2002, in 2018, they had $3.8 billion in sales. $3.5 billion of its $3.8 billion in sales were from the Monster line of drinks.

If you invested $10,000 in Hansen, now renamed Monster Beverage Corp, in 2002, your investment would have been worth over $800,000 by 2007. That is over an 80x return on investment in five years for a publicly traded company. Imagine what returns can be achieved from startup investing.

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Sources:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4DOM7nG0W7U 

https://www.globenewswire.com/news-release/2021/08/05/2276050/10193/en/Monster-Beverage-Reports-2021-Second-Quarter-Financial-Results.html 

Is SEO Dead? Search Engine Optimization – Fact or Fiction, Protecting Entrepreneurs From Wasting Money

Is SEO dead?  SEO, or Search Engine Optimization is the process of increasing the quality and quantity of website traffic by increasing the visibility of a website or a web page to users of a web search engine. SEO refers to the improvement of unpaid results and excludes direct traffic/visitors and the purchase of paid placement. Wikipedia

My google search of the term SEO this week shows 728 million results, so obviously it is a thing? But does it actually still work? I said still works because I know it worked in the past let me tell you a story

Before I wrote my book I had a radio show called the business reality network

On this show I discussed the realities of operating a successful business as opposed to the myths

Well one of my earlier listeners reached out to me and said he wanted to meet me

This kid comes out to my office, stereotypical programmer, and we start talking

He tells me that his dad is the head of marketing at one of the big four accounting firms and offers to show me how SEO works

I take him up on the offer, within a couple of weeks I am at least number 1 on google for some fairly-competitive keywords. Fairly competitive meaning there were over a million available search results and other companies were paying for ads targeting the keyword.

 I say at least number one because often I would  rank multiple times on the first page of a google search. Imagine googling a term like accounting services and see the same business ranked first, third, 4, 7! That was us! It cost me next to nothing!

That was over 10 years ago, today, I have not been able to come anywhere near those type of results using a SEO vendors. I believe most of it has to do with the updates to the Google algorithm. This type of results may not be possible anymore.

However, I know it worked in the past and I want to see if it will work again in the future. That is why I am putting out this challenge. Anyone that thinks they can show any type of measurable traction using SCO are welcome to participate in our SCO challenge. If you would like to participate in the seo challenge,

Please message me if you or your company would like to participate, just message me on any of my digital platforms to receive more information. The top performing participants will receive a ton of free promotion for me.

If none of the companies produce meaningful, measurable results, we will declare SEO dead and move on

Anyone that thinks they can show any type of measurable traction using SEO are welcome to participate in our SEO challenge. If you would like to participate in the SEO challenge, email me, info@OmegaAccelerator.com

Are you looking for investors for your business? Contact us today, funding@omegaaccelerator.com

Are you interested in angel investing and helping us fund early-stage businesses? Email info@OmegaAccelerator.com

Click here if you would like me to personally consider investing in your business. If I do not personally invest, I will give you specific tips for finding funding for your business. 100% satisfaction guaranteed or your money back.  https://rencarlton.blogspot.com/2019/09/funding-session-with-ren-carlton.html

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Stranded in the Desert – The Biggest Challenge to Finding Your First Investor or Lead Investor

Previously, I talked about where to find your lead investor.

What works for me and what doesn't.

Today I’m talking about the biggest challenge you must overcome to find a lead investor
Picture this,
You have been stranded in a dessert for three days with a group of 100 people.
You are out of water and everyone is thirsty.
You finally come across a tent. In the tent there is a guy with water.
Unfortunately, this guy only has one glass of water.
He is willing to give this glass of water to one person.

Here is the challenge...
How are you going to get that glass of water?

This is the challenge you must overcome to find your lead investor.

The odds are tough. Less than 1% of business ever raise any outside capital.

There are specific tactics that I use to level the playing field offset this huge disadvantage. We will discuss some of those tactics in later videos.

Click here to learn how I found the first investor for one of my startups.

If you like this content, please share this content and video with your network and smash that like button.

Thank you for joining me, I will talk to you soon!

Are you looking for investors for your business? Contact us today, funding@omegaaccelerator.com

Are you interested in angel investing and helping us fund early-stage businesses? Email info@OmegaAccelerator.com

Click here if you would like me to personally consider investing in your business. If I do not personally invest, I will give you specific tips for finding funding for your business. 100% satisfaction guaranteed or your money back.  https://rencarlton.blogspot.com/2019/09/funding-session-with-ren-carlton.html

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How to find Accredited Investors and Angel Investors

Experts estimate that there are close to 4 million Angel Investors in the U.S. Angel Investors are everywhere.  Friends, family, networking connections, and coworkers are all potential Angel Investors.  Since Angel Investors need to have the money available to invest in your business, you probably want to target people with a high net worth.  There are also a number of portals that may be able to help you find investors, e.g. Gust, Angels List.

Working with a placement agent or meeting someone through a warm introduction have been the most effective tactics for me. I have also met investors through networking events, social media, and golf. Below is some additional information about Angel Investors.

Entrepreneurs Become Angels 

More than half of angels (54.8 percent) have experience as entrepreneurs and often advise the startups they invest in, informally or as board members. Angel investors with entrepreneurial experience write bigger checks, with an average of $39,000 vs. $28,000 for angels without entrepreneurial experience. They also have more companies in their angel portfolios and see better returns.

More Women are Becoming Angels 

Women comprise 22 percent of angel investors in the study – and that number is growing. Among respondents who began investing since 2015, 30 percent are women. In comparison, studies have shown 5 to 8 percent of U.S venture capitalists are women.

Women Invest Differently than Men

51 percent of women respondents consider gender of business founders to be important when making investment decisions (compared to 6 percent of men). “This indicates that women are seeking to support women entrepreneurs,” says lead researcher Laura Huang. Another gender difference: twice as many women as men reported they strongly consider social impact of a startup when making investment decisions (33 percent for women vs. 16 percent for men). Both men and women angels agree that the quality of the founding team is the most important consideration when investing.

Eyes-Open Risk Takers

Angels said an average of 11 percent of their portfolio yielded a positive return. “That number is consistent with other studies that have shown 5 to 10 percent of angel investments yield a positive return for angels,” says Huang. “A deeper dive shows that where startups have been sold or gone public, 39 percent yielded positive returns for the angel investor.”

Do you need help finding an angel investor or accredited investor for your business? Contact us today, funding@omegaaccelerator.com 

Are you interested in working with a placement agent to find the business that is right for you?  Email us today to learn how we can help, info@OmegaAccelerator.com.

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https://www.angelcapitalassociation.org/faqs/
https://www.genglobal.org/united-states-gban/new-research-individual-angels-provides-insights-startup-ecosystem
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Who Are Angel Investors?

According to investopedia.com, an angel investor (also known as a private investor, seed investor or angel funder) is a high net worth individual who provides financial backing for small startups or entrepreneurs, typically in exchange for ownership equity in the company. Often, angel investors are found among an entrepreneur's family and friends. The funds that angel investors provide may be a one-time investment to help the business get off the ground or an ongoing injection to support and carry the company through its difficult early stages.

The 2017 American Angel study, conducted by the Angel Capital Association (ACA), provided some very useful data points through their survey of 1,659 U.S. angels, the largest such study ever conducted. Their survey included 40 quantitative questions and four qualitative ones which provided these insights:

• Angel investors provide $25 billion to 70,000 companies annually, accounting for 90 percent of outside funding for startups.
• Angels are more diverse than venture capitalists, with women making up 22 percent of investors.
• The racial mix leans heavily towards white investors, who account for 87.6 percent of angels.
• The mean age of an angel making a first investment is 48.
• The median angel investment is $25,000.
• The initial investment is higher in regions outside of California, New York, Boston and San Francisco, where it is $32,432.
• 63% of angel investors are based outside those major cities.

Would you like to become one of our Angel Investors?  Contact us today,  Info@omegaaccelerator.com

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https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/who-angel-investors-ren-carlton

https://rencarlton.blogspot.com/2019/09/who-are-angel-investors.html 

https://youtu.be/KykN9MFlrtw 

https://www.facebook.com/TheOmegaAccelerator/ 

https://twitter.com/RenCarlton 

https://www.instagram.com/omega.funding/ 

https://www.investopedia.com/terms/a/angelinvestor.asp

https://www.inc.com/quora/everything-you-need-to-know-before-you-make-your-first-angel-investment.html

https://www.forbes.com/sites/mariannehudson/2016/09/13/eight-steps-to-becoming-an-angel-investor/#3a7a1e891726

https://www.entrepreneur.com/article/52742

https://www.forbes.com/sites/dorieclark/2014/07/23/how-to-become-an-angel-investor/#79f99c4b4cfb


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