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because true entrepreneurship is an all-in sport. But angel investing can come close. Being an active seed investor in a startup—especially if you also serve in an advisory, mentoring, or board of directors role—is the next best thing to doing it yourself.

according to ability or achievement.” Today the entrepreneur has become the very embodiment of that dream. Through hard work and perseverance, it’s he or she who dares not only to dream, but to risk everything for the chance to succeed.

entrepreneurs who are very confident about their ability to succeed with a startup, so much so that they have invested a significant percentage of their personal wealth in the project, giving them skin in the game.

A related example is the founder who still has a day job. This we cannot abide! If an entrepreneur does not have the confidence to commit all their time (let alone money), how can we have the confidence to invest?

start referring to yourself as an “investor” and a “consultant” and all the while always remember you are an ACQUIREpreneur!

They are often exceptionally good at spending money and spinning yarns, but they frequently become habitual beggars who are so disconnected from the actual product and customers that they don’t reach product/market fit with anyone except, wait for it, investors. I’m looking for founders who are scrappy—what we call capital efficient.