The Hacker Guide To Angel Investing

‘I’m an angel investor’. It can be a serious endeavor, a path to fortune or merely am expensive hobby (like racing cars on weekends). Is it a hard-won Purple Heart, or a chocolate medal? And are there better ways to succeed?

No worries: it’s vegan.

The type of angel you are is your own choice. Some people invest because they like it, while others like Tucker Max or Tim Ferriss pretty much stopped to ‘make better use of their time’.

I did my first angel investment 10 years ago — sort of ‘before it went mainstream’ — and am mostly ‘mission-driven’: I only invested in startups whose mission and founders I was proud to support.

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