Great PodCast on Angel Investing w/ Ron Conway

by walter.roth on June 13, 2008

Described and linked to below is a great podcast on the topic of Angel investing.

Listening closely you get a great feeling for the process and numbers game of professional angel investing, Ron Conway style. He gives stats on deal flow, success rates, etc. In particular, he describes why the angel model is definitely a “hits business.”

As I work to further refine the description, approach and implementation of SweatInvestor.com, this podcast gave a lot of interesting concepts and dynamics to consider. Overall, SweatInvestor.com is positioned to be complimentary.

URL: http://edcorner.stanford.edu/authorMaterialInfo.html?mid=1902

Description: experienced angel investors, Ron Conway, Founder of Angel Investors LP, and Mike Maples, Founder of Maples Investments, provide a rare look into the ins and outs of angel investing. Conway and Maples discuss how angel investors assess opportunities, provide assistance to entrepreneurs and transition start-ups to larger venture investments or exit. In addition, Conway and Maples provide advice to entrepreneurs about finding one’s passion and developing that passion into new ventures, including insight into how much money to raise and how to manage that money after it is in the bank.

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The J-Curve

by walter.roth on April 18, 2008

We’ll be posting about the J-Curve and how SweatInvestors can reduce their risk by creating a portfolio of SweatInvestments, just like Venture Funds do. This will include how to screen potential SweatInvestments, as well as finding ways to reduce the amount of time/energy/focus per SweatInvestment while maximizing the value each SweatInvestment recieves.

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And then there was risk…

by walter.roth on April 16, 2008

screen-shot-2009-11-16-at-93236-pm1I listened to a great podcast the other day produced by tom-perkins1VentureVoice with Tom Perkins of Kleiner Perkins. I highly recommend it to any current or future SweatInvestor. Its a great view to see how the venture capital industry in Silicon Valley was started, and how some of the smartest brains went about creating value and mitigating risk.

Back to the basics…

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