2009 angel investing ventures 
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
In these scenarios angels made great returns precisely because they didn’t need to dip their hands into their pockets a second or third time, their companies didn’t go bankrupt and they didn’t get buried in the cap tables by large VCs who put in “pay to play” provisions in tough times. So where are we now? It’s hard to say.
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This is going to be BIG.
NOVEMBER 19, 2015
Unlike venture capital funds, they don't make money directly off the multiples of their return. They did quite well on their angel investment in Square. Rowe Price and Fidelity funds who bid the company up to ridiculous valuations in their pre-IPO rounds. Congrats on your huge disappointment.
Both Sides of the Table
SEPTEMBER 14, 2010
But if 2011 & 2012 look more like 2008-2009 than 2010 or 2005-2007 then one of the most important skills of angel investors will be whether they can get their companies financed (or ramen profitable, but this is harder to sustain over a long period of time). and now they’re all buying their way into innovation and talent.
This is going to be BIG.
MARCH 14, 2019
Figuring out how you’ll spend your fully loaded time is something any LP will want to understand in order to know if you can handle going from just angel investing or doing whatever you were doing before to running a portfolio full time. Will that increase the work? Here’s what my model said. This is actually easily referenced.
Gust
DECEMBER 13, 2011
I’ve recently taken a look at seed stage funding by venture capitalists (VCs) and angel investors over the past five years. Here are the trends in venture capital financings from 2006 through 2010 – the number of seed stage deals funded and total investment by region in millions of dollars. . . Investment.
Both Sides of the Table
MAY 15, 2010
Next Wednesday we’ll have Dana Settle of Greycroft Partners, a New York / LA early-stage venture capital fund. We spoke about the changes to an “accredited investor&# proposed by Chris Dodd – This would be bad for angel investing. and who had biz reasons for wanting to remain stealth.”. - Short answer: no.
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