Should I Jump On That Bandwagon? (Angel Investing)
The Seraf Compass
APRIL 24, 2024
The toughest moment in a new angel’s investing career: a very large round has lots of momentum – it has been expanded and is still over-subscribed.
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The Seraf Compass
APRIL 24, 2024
The toughest moment in a new angel’s investing career: a very large round has lots of momentum – it has been expanded and is still over-subscribed.
The Seraf Compass
MAY 8, 2024
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The Seraf Compass
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TechCrunch
MARCH 27, 2023
One survey finds that while about half of angel investors rate the potential for returns as their top motivator for investing, about a third also rank solving some of the world’s biggest challenges as another. A lot of us make this mistake early on: We invest too much money on one of our first deals. Avoid these 7 mistakes.
The Seraf Compass
MAY 11, 2022
In the world of startup company investing, the best-known investors are those who invest in the tiny percentage of companies that make it big. Should a typical angel investor apply the “swing for the fences” approach to their personal investing? Think Facebook, Google or Amazon.
Gust
OCTOBER 1, 2022
Angel investing in the past few years has moved from an arcane backwater of the financial world to a business arena that receives coverage in mainstream newspapers and hit television shows such as ABC’s Shark Tank. The post Why Everyone with Six Figures to Invest Should Consider Angel Investing appeared first on Gust.
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Angel Capital Association
MARCH 25, 2024
The ACA and angel investing community are thrilled to welcome Dr. Charu Ramanathan as a keynote speaker to the Summit of Angel Investing in Columbus, OH. Dr. Ramanathan is the Founding Managing Partner and Chief Investment Officer of Black Star Fund , an early-stage venture capital fund.
Angel Capital Association
AUGUST 13, 2021
I’m sharing my thought process because perhaps it will nudge some of you to angel invest too! I consider myself a furiously curious person, and angel investing is one of the most rewarding ways I’ve experienced to satisfy this curiosity. My angel investing hobby was making me a better Founder, CEO, and business leader.
The Seraf Compass
FEBRUARY 7, 2024
For a variety of reasons, the mainstream business press is writing more about angel investing than ever. It seems like more now than ever before, if you tell a distant relative that you are an angel investor, they will say “oh I’ve heard of that” rather than give you a blank stare and assume you are talking about church choir.
The Seraf Compass
AUGUST 14, 2019
It feels like there is more written about angel investing lately than ever before. This form of early-stage investing seems to be having its 15 minutes of fame. As someone who worked with venture capital in the run-up to the first dot.com boom and is presently an active angel and co-head of one of the largest and busiest U.S.
The Seraf Compass
JULY 24, 2019
One of the best parts about angel investing is all the great stories you gather over the years. Whether regaling your friends over a drink at the bar, or telling your grandkids about the time you invested in (insert name of very successful company here), angel investing will provide you with a wealth of experiences.
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The Seraf Compass
MARCH 25, 2020
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The Seraf Compass
MAY 12, 2021
In recognition of their incredible contribution to angel investing, Seraf Founders Ham Lord and Christopher Mirabile were awarded the 2021 Hans Severiens award by the Angel Capital Association, the largest professional angel investor development organization in the world.
The Seraf Compass
JUNE 12, 2019
? There are as many different approaches to angel investing as there are investors. Some investors will tell you they invest based on their gut. They like to invest in people and that initial meeting guides their decision-making process. After a 30 minute meeting with the entrepreneur, they are either in or out.
Angel Capital Association
OCTOBER 2, 2023
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE 10/01/2023 10/01/2023 - The Angel Capital Association (ACA), the world’s largest association of angel investors, has announced that Columbus, Ohio will host its 2024 Summit of Angel Investing. Visit angelcapitalassociation.org. Contact: Director of Marketing, Dannielle Stewart.
The Seraf Compass
JULY 17, 2019
? Early stage investing is an inherently risky way to invest. As angel investors, you need to be aware of the key risks you are taking with your investment. The list of high level risks is long and includes financing risk, technical risk, and market risk.
TechCrunch
JUNE 24, 2022
Long-term angel investing: Understanding capital requirements and how to find quality investments. But there’s a reason successful angel investors are few and far between: returns may take several years to materialize, and not all companies you want to invest in will want your money.
The Seraf Compass
JULY 31, 2019
Before Christopher joined the world of angel investing, he spent much of his early career as a corporate lawyer working in-house for a NASDAQ listed enterprise software company. As a prolific angel, he adapts those organizational skills to tame the massive amount of paperwork associated with the large portfolios he manages.
Angel Capital Association
NOVEMBER 30, 2023
We have all heard the importance of having one or more of our angel investments noted as a “home run” In terms of a return exit. Generally speaking we can define a home run for an angel investor as a company having a very successful return multiple at the time of their exit, generally with a return multiple of 10.0x
The Seraf Compass
OCTOBER 30, 2019
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Angel Capital Association
NOVEMBER 23, 2022
Patience Is Required in Angel Investing. It is important to have realistic expectations on returns and timing when one begins the journey known as Angel Investing. A deeper look at the distribution of TCA’s 95 exits out of 223 outcomes through 2021 shows the importance of being patient as an angel investor.
The Seraf Compass
DECEMBER 18, 2019
The first approach we recommend for selecting investable companies is to screen each company by examining the Team, Market Opportunity and Product. But for serious angels with more solid prospects than they can possibly invest in, a second filter is needed.
The Seraf Compass
AUGUST 12, 2020
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TechCrunch
JANUARY 13, 2022
In more than two decades as an angel investor and early-stage company scout, I’ve met with hundreds of entrepreneurs seeking funds and sat through an equal number of slide deck pitches. From my point of view as an angel investor and former entrepreneur, here are five essential factors I look for when considering my next investment.
Both Sides of the Table
NOVEMBER 14, 2010
The dinner parties now are filled with self-righteous angel investors bragging about how many deals they are in on. They have marked-up paper gains propped up by an over excited venture capital market that has validated their investments. Logic tells me the following: It is hard to make money angel investing.
Both Sides of the Table
SEPTEMBER 15, 2010
I’d rather be Roger Ehrenberg with a thesis around data-centric companies and base my investment decisions on the skills I’ve developed in my career. To some extent Keith Rabois agreed with me about domain knowledge and argued that most of his investments are in the consumer Internet space as a result. Always have been.
Both Sides of the Table
SEPTEMBER 14, 2010
I believe the rise in angel investing is here to stay and the professionalization of this class (aka “super angels or “micro VC ) is a good thing for the VC industry and for entrepreneurs. But I fear that for most angel investors who invest over the long haul angel investing will not be a profitable endeavor.
Angel Capital Association
SEPTEMBER 5, 2023
We all know that investing in early-stage companies is a very risky proposition, and the majority of investments will either fail completely or fail to return the capital invested. Not withstanding the high overall failure rate, a sufficiently diversified portfolio of early-stage investments can yield attractive returns.
Angel Capital Association
MAY 6, 2021
By: Sarah Dickey, ACA Membership Director Boston-Area Angels Hambleton Lord and Christopher Mirabile Receive Hans Severiens Award for Individual Impact in Advancing the Field of Angel Investing. Ham and Christopher met in the busy Boston angel investing community where they both started and operated angel networks.
Angel Capital Association
APRIL 28, 2021
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Both Sides of the Table
SEPTEMBER 14, 2010
And we all know that Ron Conway is considered the savviest of angel investors and yet by definition not all of his investments succeed. I like to invest where I have a personally strong connection with the entrepreneur and/or a strong intuition on the market from prior experience. Who ultimately invested in FourSquare?
Startup Catalyst Brief Submitted Articles
NOVEMBER 4, 2020
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Both Sides of the Table
SEPTEMBER 16, 2010
The first three skills I espoused were: access to the highest-quality deal-flow, domain knowledge of the topic area in which you’re investing and access to VCs to help fund the next stages of development. Markets like these are very kind to angel investors because you get taken out early and see a nice pop on your investment.
StartupNation
SEPTEMBER 3, 2021
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Both Sides of the Table
SEPTEMBER 19, 2010
I’m obviously only naming a small fraction of their investments since I don’t feel inclined to research them all and many other great venture firms have this kind of access. It’s hard for me to imagine that angel investing outcomes judged 10 years from now will have a drastically different profile. Or the CEO?
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