Angel Investing: The Gust Guide to Making Money and Having Fun Investing in Startups

Data has shown that 10 percent of angel investments generate 90 percent of the returns; not all angel investors are going to be lucky enough to have one of those home-run investments in their portfolio. While angel investing as an asset class generates good returns for investors, only a small number of angel investors will make exceptionally great

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Of these companies that become well financed we only need 15–25% of those to pan out to return 2–3x the fund. But this is all driven on the assumption that we didn’t write a $20 million check out of the gate, that we didn’t pay a $100 million pre-money valuation and that we took a meaningful ownership stake by making a very early bet on founders an... See more