A Place For Entrepreneurs To Share Inspiring Ideas | Inspiration Station | Entrepreneur. Enterpreneur Portal. Lessons for Budding Angel Investors from Y Combinator's AngelConf: Part 1. Wade Roush8/2/10 You’ve been a part of the startup world for a while, and you’ve had a successful exit or two. You have some money laying around that you don’t know what to do with. You feel a vague sense of owing something back to the technology community, and you want to keep a hand in the startup world. So you’re thinking about becoming part of that mysterious and elusive breed—the angel investor. If you weren’t at Y Combinator’s AngelConf last Thursday, you should have been. Like the June Angel Boot Camp event in Cambridge, MA, the afternoon of talks by experienced angels was designed to get aspiring angels thinking more carefully about why, how, and where to invest. They all shared their insights on the rewards—and the hazards—of being an angel investor.
Collected here are edited excerpts from the most interesting talks. Jeff Clavier (SoftTech VC) on the definition of “super angel”: We have become almost a new asset class in the ecosystem.
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