David Teten
JANUARY 28, 2013
The good news for Techcrunch readers: Every major study conducted to date has placed angel investors’ IRR between 18 and 38 percent, as summarized by my Partner John Frankel and Professor Robert Wiltbank in prior Techcrunch articles. Every major angel study conducted to date has shown high IRR. billion for angels versus $ 29.5
Steve Blank
JUNE 17, 2011
Ben offers that as Apple, Google and Amazon survived the dot.com crash, we can ignore the fate of the thousands of failed public and private dot.com companies when the bubble burst in March of 2000. I believe the issue isn’t whether we’re on a 25-year tech cycle or that the next 8 years are really going to be great.
David Teten
NOVEMBER 15, 2013
Since I became an institutional investor, my #1 learning is: this is a highly unusual and somewhat baffling industry. Angel investors earn higher returns than small VCs, who in turn earn higher returns than large VCs, let alone most other asset classes.
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