Thursday, July 14, 2011

Angel Investors

I will note something very interesting that could happen in this world of "angel investors", so please pay attention.

It starts with you - having a company, having some expertise on your own, having your staff of experts that helped you to make a business plan and a project, etc. So you already know that you just need XX or YY amount of money, for ZZ destination and expenses. Everything is clear and good.

Then comes some person saying that he represents some investors, asking your project plan (so they are easy gaining knowledge in this branch, know-how, everything, confidential data, market trends and data analysis - which is very costly to achieve, by the way, names and positions of the expert people involved, similar projects of you or of the others around, market positioning of your own project, sensitive details, highly competitive advantages that your team could have over its competition, and so on...)

Now, here comes the question: how do you protect your project against the economic espionage ? From the bad guys, just wanting to learn your secrets,