Sublime

In Chapter 5, I discussed the critical first part of angel investing: seeking exciting potential companies in which to invest, and building your top-of-the-funnel deal flow. We went through a host of places you could visit proactively to find investment targets, from personal connections and meetups to angel groups and Demo Days. But while the worl

While you’re still tripping on the Milky Way of potential, call in your invisible elders, angels, or faith leaders. Imagine hanging out with the wisdom keepers

Returning to the math lesson, let's assume that we as angels want to target a 20 percent annualized return from our investments into 10 companies, and we know that statistically only 1 out of those 10 is going to be our portfolio-maker home run. This means that every individual company in our portfolio needs to be at least theoretically able to ret

If you want to be a successful angel, you have to have an appetite for risk and the ability to accept failure. More importantly, though, you have to be curious. And studious. You have to want to know everything you can possibly know about an emerging technology and the entrepreneur who wants to bring that technology to market. If you're a new angel