Thanks for posting this. Why did you invest in those three startups in particular? Was it the market, the founders, personal connections? And was it a systematic search for startups to invest in, or more of an “opportunity-arose” situation?
These were all personal connections / opportunity-arose situations.
The closest I’ve done to a systematic search was once asking someone who’d done a bunch of angel investments if there were any he’d invested in who were looking for more money and whom he was considering investing more in. That was actually my first angel investment (Pantelligent) and it ended up not working out. (But of course that’s the median expected outcome.)
(The other two that I invested in that are not still going concerns were AgoraFund and AlphaSheets. Both of those were through personal connections as well.)
Thanks for posting this. Why did you invest in those three startups in particular? Was it the market, the founders, personal connections? And was it a systematic search for startups to invest in, or more of an “opportunity-arose” situation?
These were all personal connections / opportunity-arose situations.
The closest I’ve done to a systematic search was once asking someone who’d done a bunch of angel investments if there were any he’d invested in who were looking for more money and whom he was considering investing more in. That was actually my first angel investment (Pantelligent) and it ended up not working out. (But of course that’s the median expected outcome.)
(The other two that I invested in that are not still going concerns were AgoraFund and AlphaSheets. Both of those were through personal connections as well.)