Sublime

More typically, they are network-based, with the angel offering to connect the startup with resources, partners, investors, or acquirers that would otherwise fall outside the company's reach. In fact, the first thing that super angel Ron Conway does after making an investment is to give the new portfolio company a large binder containing the names

With angel syndicates, you simply pay the carry. There are no fees other than some minor legal and filing fees (typically less than $10,000 per deal, spread out across the dozens of investors in a deal).

Most professional angels (that is, people who would self-identify with the term angel investor and are ultimately planning to do ten or more investments) invest in business arenas they already know well. That is why most serious angel groups tend to cluster around particular industries. For example, in New York we have, among others, New York Angel

That’s why you don’t see any books on angel investing or meet many career angel investors. In fact, there have only been a handful of people who have done angel investing for a complete decade and I am on a first-name basis with all of them: Esther Dyson, Mark Cuban, Stewart Alsop, Mitch Kapor, and Ron Conway top my list of angels who just won’t st