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How and Why To Be an Angel Investor

David Teten

Source: Center for Venture Research – Angel Market Analysis Report. Q: What is the typical profile of angel investors? Angel investors are generally former entrepreneurs and/or executives, who invest in privately-held, early-stage companies. Q: Why do people become angel investors? 1994 – present.

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Brad Feld Drops Knowledge. Here’s What He Said …

Both Sides of the Table

My initial desire to blog came from something that’s always been my approach to investing – I’m a nerd and I love to play with the technology and part of my approach has really been to understand things both at a user level and at a reasonably deep tentacle level. So I was an Angel investor from 1994 to 1996.

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My First Experience As A Venture Capitalist

Feld Thoughts

.” I bootstrapped my first company and, while we did a lot of work for VCs, I liked taking money from them as “revenue” (where they paid Feld Technologies for our services) rather than as investment. Feld Technologies was acquired in November 1993. And it’s been very interesting since that point back in 1996.

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Mattermark – An Example of How We Decide to Invest

Feld Thoughts

As an investor for the past 20 years, I’ve had this happen many times. When I first started investing as an angel investor in 1994, I was focused on a very simple set of criteria. I’ve been interested in private company data since I started Feld Technologies in 1987. And that was it. And that was that.