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MELINDA GATES Cochair, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation

With early investments in social media companies such as Twitter, Tumblr, Foursquare and Zynga, Fred Wilson has become one of the world's most watched angel investors. And one of the opportunities he is watching most attentively is the emerging industry of digital money.

I noticed that very few software companies were efficiently run. Well, why? The big part was most executives who started software companies wrote code, or they knew a market opportunity and they sold code. There was never anyone who taught them how to run software companies. Then I run across this small company in Houston, Texas, that is the most e

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

Babak Nivi writes the excellent blog Venture Hacks and was an early Lean Startup evangelist: http://venturehacks.com/. He’s since gone on to create Angel List, which matches startups and investors around the world: http://angel.co/