Sublime

Accel Partners, one of the top brand-name VC firms, invested a small part of its ninth fund to lead the series A round in Facebook. Seven years later, Facebook had an IPO valuing the company at $100 billion, giving the initial investment at least a 300x return.

Private equity, family offices, and retiring entrepreneurs who cash out of bigger companies are all looking to buy businesses you turn around, roll up, or explode in EBITDA.

As an angel investor you will do the same thing, but you must be even more ruthless than the Ivy-est of the Ivies. For every investment I make this year, there had better be 40 serious, passionate entrepreneurs sitting on my doorstep, of whom I will only invest in one. That means I need to be three times pickier than Yale, Harvard, and Stanford whe