{"id":6941,"date":"2020-06-23T17:31:09","date_gmt":"2020-06-23T14:31:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ufuture.com\/?p=6941"},"modified":"2020-06-23T17:31:09","modified_gmt":"2020-06-23T14:31:09","slug":"venture-financing-is-not-an-easy-walk-in-the-autumn-forest-but-a-separate-story-with-risks-and-features-andriy-komarovsky-ceo-of-sector-x","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ufuture.com\/en\/venture-financing-is-not-an-easy-walk-in-the-autumn-forest-but-a-separate-story-with-risks-and-features-andriy-komarovsky-ceo-of-sector-x\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Venture financing is not an easy walk in the autumn forest, but a separate story with risks and features,&#8221; Andriy Komarovsky, CEO of Sector X"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Business angels in Ukraine and abroad are a number of reasons \u2014 among them, in particular, the desire to earn not a million tomorrow, but 10-100 million in 10-15 years, self-realization, new meanings of life and investment diversification. How and why they become business angels, what is the difference between Western and Ukrainian investors and why being a business angel is life inside a startup, said Andriy Komarovsky, CEO of <a href=\"https:\/\/sectorx.city\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">the accelerator hub Sector X<\/a>.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Entrepreneurs with a certain amount in their pockets, who are ready to invest in young startups, often become business angels.<\/li>\n<li>Investor motivation is the desire to increase income, coexist with their peers, and understand the system from within.<\/li>\n<li>In the West, investors are successful entrepreneurs or top managers of large companies, in Ukraine \u2014 often owners of classic companies, officials, and Ukrainian entrepreneurs with experience in selling startups.<\/li>\n<li>To become a business angel \u2014 you need from $5-20 million, which is not afraid to lose, a sincere desire to understand the world of technology, contact with a community of their own kind, and trends in various industries.<\/li>\n<li>Most business angels unite in clubs, associations, and unions. This is the best choice in terms of minimizing risks, increasing knowledge, and access to good projects.<\/li>\n<li>The main features and risks of such an investment are the loss of funds, a mentoring approach to the team, rather than an attitude as an employer and a long game where planning for a maximum of one year ahead does not work.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Read more about why you need to become a business angel, how to successfully buy and then resell a startup, and the experience of successful investment professionals in the column for Vector: \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/vctr.media\/business-angel-guide-41162\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Shameful questions about the venture. How and why do they become business angels?<\/a>\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Business angels in Ukraine and abroad are a number of reasons \u2014 among them, in particular, the desire to earn&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"chat","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[64],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ufuture.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6941"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ufuture.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ufuture.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ufuture.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ufuture.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6941"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/ufuture.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6941\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6978,"href":"https:\/\/ufuture.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6941\/revisions\/6978"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ufuture.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6941"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ufuture.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6941"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ufuture.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6941"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}