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11 angel investing lessons

Venture Hacks

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.

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Angel Investing: Skill 3 – Relationships with VCs

Both Sides of the Table

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.

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Angel Investing 4 – Why You Need Deep Pockets to Win Big

Both Sides of the Table

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.

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Angel Investing: Skill 3 – Relationships with VCs

Both Sides of the Table

I’d rather be Roger Ehrenberg with a thesis around data-centric companies and base my investment decisions on my background. I should say that I agree that naive optimism in entrepreneurs can produce higher beta (upside or flops) and that’s good from an investment standpoint if you’re looking for big returns.

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Marketing Cube founder Maya Moufarek’s lessons for customer-focused startups

TechCrunch

Now, everyone sees Google as this huge company with endless products and expansive teams, but back in 2005 when I worked there, it didn’t seem like a megacompany. That may seem strange advice for a new startup, but the economy is volatile and things change very fast. I often hear founders say that “growth is the new engineering.”

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Making sense of Klarna

TechCrunch

“We did hear that and I think it’s very poor advice,” he says. That only changed in 2019, when it decided to incur losses in favor of investing millions trying to conquer the U.S. companies should relocate to Silicon Valley if they really want to grow. market, choosing New York and L.A. Pitch perfect, you might think.

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A Few Key People Really Can Make a Huge Difference

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It’s why my investment philosophy is called, “ the entrepreneur thesis.&#. I was meeting with a first-time CEO of a very promising young startup recently and offering my advice on what his priorities should be. There is a long tradition of these and it’s what formed the original angel network groups.