Fuel for your business

Colin McKinnon was interviewed in today’s Herald, plugging the NZVCA’s new book, “Fuel for your Business”.

The book is “… aimed at young, early stage New Zealand companies looking for funding to help them grow, and focuses on attracting ‘rocket fuel’ or angel and venture capital investment.”

Colin says that he hopes the book will prompt prospective investors to approach the venture capital association.  He continues, “Angels are more informal, philanthropic and are more about being involved in a community of common interest. Venture capital is professional, about fund management and about having a good track record so it can attract more people to the fund.”

I can’t say I’ve ever met an angel investor who thought they were being philanthropic by investing!  And we might even eventually forgive the Herald for showing a picture of Colin against a map of the world that excludes New Zealand, worthy of NZEDGE’s now-defunct collection.

I look forward to reading the book once it hits the shops, and will enjoy Colin’s take on the debate on “Why VC’s and Angels Must be Wed Locked” at the upcoming inaugural Angel Association summit.  The love’s gotta flow in both directions, sweetie!