The 1 Thing I Wish I Knew Before Angel Investing

I Wasn’t Prepared for the Killer J-Curve

DC Palter
Entrepreneurship Handbook
5 min readJan 25, 2022

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Venture Capital J-Curve. Image by Author.

I started angel investing in 2009. Since that time, I’ve made 38 investments in 29 companies as an individual and joined 4 angel funds.

I’d love to brag that these investments have made me a billionaire. On paper, I’m doing reasonably well. In actual cash returned to the bank account, not…

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Entrepreneur, angel investor, startup mentor, sake snob. Author of the Silicon Valley mystery To Kill a Unicorn: https://amzn.to/3sD2SGH