Twenty fucking five to one My gambling days are done I bet on a horse called the Bottle of Smoke And my horse won – The Pogues I have decided to angel invest. Any advice? I spent some time deca...
Jerry Neumann's Blog
https://reactionwheel.net/2013/04/the-signal-and-noise-angel-investing-6.html
More from the Angel Investor Performance Project data. Much of the financial activity at early stage companies happens around investment rounds. Acquisitions, failures, and fire-sales tend to hap...
https://reactionwheel.net/2013/04/aipp-data-modeling-angel-investing.html
The Kauffman Foundation has some data on angel investor investment and returns at their Angel Investor Performance Project. The data has some serious limitations, mainly that it is relatively con...
https://reactionwheel.net/2013/03/aipp-data-summary-angel-investing.html
A company I really liked was out raising money. They went to a very well known early stage VC and had a great first meeting. A couple of days later the partner got back to them with a no. He said...
https://reactionwheel.net/2013/03/transcending-hobbyism-angel-investing-4.html
When I started a company my co-founders and I thought and discussed and argued about how we were different from our competitors, how there was a hole in the market, how we were going to win by go...
https://reactionwheel.net/2013/03/how-to-be-different-when-what-you-sell.html
The first question every prospective angel (and all my relatives) ask me is “What do you do all day?” It’s sort of a funny question. For any job more varied than working on an assembly line...
https://reactionwheel.net/2013/03/the-work-work-balance-angel-investing-2.html
If you bootstrap your business it’s your prerogative to make any stupid decisions you want–so long as you don’t run out of money. But if you decide you want your bootstrapped business to be...