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The benefits of joining a group include pooling deal flow, capital, domain expertise, and investing experience. Most groups run regular education sessions for new members and provide mentoring for less experienced investors from those with many deals under their belts.

From the perspective of an operations guy, there is a lot of riff-raff in venture capital: posers, herd mentality, technology infatuation, too much education, not enough experience to appreciate what grit and focus it takes to grow a business out of nothing. To have a fighting chance, you want to be with the best firms, and the best partners in tho

If you come to Silicon Valley and invest in thirty startups over two years and make this your half-time or full-time job, reflecting on the wins and losses, spending time with other investors and founders, you’re going to learn a ton. If you’re smart, you will read this book before you start investing, after you invest in ten startups, and again wh

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

There’s an outside chance that twenty-five thousand of you might become angel investors, and if that happens, it would change everything. The world has trillions of dollars sitting in bonds, cash, stocks, and real estate, which is all really “dead money.” It sits there and grows slowly and safely, taking no risk and not changing the world at all. W