Venture Hacks
APRIL 17, 2019
Spearhead asked me to write a post on angel investing when they first launched. Charlie Munger says investing requires a latticework of mental models. Here are 11 lessons for your angel investing lattice: If you can’t decide, the answer is no. Investing takes years to learn, but improves for a lifetime.
This is going to be BIG.
NOVEMBER 19, 2015
It's a market that had gotten completely detached from the regular venture capital market--you know, the VCs and angels like SV Angel, First Round, and even Foursquare CEO Dennis Crowley who I'm pretty sure aren't crying a river over a multi-billion dollar exit to the public markets after just six years.
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David Teten VC
MARCH 31, 2025
Orange Collective exclusively invests in Y Combinator companies before Demo Day. The Orange Collective team have collectively angel invested in 200+ Y Combinator companies, including unicorn outcomes like Ironclad, Vanta, Replit, Moonvalley, and Snapdocs.
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. I was blown away.
Both Sides of the Table
SEPTEMBER 25, 2010
Taking it from an investor perspective (not me, angels) I think it’s totally unfair to see early angels invest, take more risk, help you get to the next level through both sweat & money, and then pay a higher price because the round had a convertible note with no cap.
Gust
DECEMBER 27, 2012
Blindly sending your business plan to every single angel and VC in the world will have zero effect, and simply clogs the system while annoying everyone. Seriously consider applying for funding from your local business angel investment group. Your goal in all this is to try to find a lead investor.
TechCrunch
JULY 6, 2021
Olubusi, who had built and exited a couple of startups over the years, also dabbled with angel investing for some time. It was there he met more founders like him who were angel investors with impressive portfolios. Each founder wanted to invest in other companies during YC’s Demo Day. The interesting bit?
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