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

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This is the same with angel investing. Protecting every investment – including bad hands – is a losing strategy in poker & in angel investing. From an investment perspective you need to absorb three scenarios in angel investing that require deep pockets. Pay to play.

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Jason Calacanis Answers the Top 5 Questions He Gets about Angel Investing

Dream It

In this guest Dreamit Dose, Jason Calacanis (@jason), a technology entrepreneur, angel investor, and the host of the popular podcasts This Week in Startups and Angel, answers the top 5 questions he gets about angel investing. Like it or not, status plays a role for angel investors. What excites an angel?

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5 Tips for New Angel Investors

This is going to be BIG.

Over the course of the lifetime of a new angel investor, they'll do 70% of all of the angel investments they'll ever make in year one. With a little patience, forethought, and strategy, you can avoid angel burnout. Here are just a few suggestions: 1) Advise first, invest later. 3) Start with funds.

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Venture Capital Q&A Session

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We also discussed how to deal with pricing in angel rounds and a strategy I advocated in my “social proof&# blog post , which is to price your initial angel round really low and get in the best possible angels as a way to get momentum in the company. Minutes 18.30 – 26.30. Not if you don’t have to.

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Any advice can be worthless, or worse.

Berkonomics

Ever get bad advice? Ever take that advice without question because the person giving it was an investor, a superior in rank, the chairperson of your board? I’ll bet you have at least one story of bad advice taken and being bitten as a result. We all have in our past. Some of you can guess that name of the group. But I digress.

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The Five Advisors You Meet in the Deadpool

This is going to be BIG.

I'm a strong believer in having a board, even at a seed stage, to report to and set strategy with. Ask around for who the top entrepreneurs are and this is a name that always comes up--mostly because of the big name angel round they raised and the upward trajectory of the business they run.

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A Guide to Using Authority & Social Proof in Fund Raising

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. “Yes&# was given to me by one of my favorite angel investor / seed VC’s to work with – John Greathouse of Rincon Venture Partners and author of the blog InfoChachkie that you should check out because it is filled with great info from a guy who has been a very successful operator. It is how angel rounds come together.&#.

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