Solo Angel Investing Versus Joining a Group I was a solo angel investor from 1980 until 2000 and made a significant fraction of my 52 angel investments during that period. Solo angel investing is just plain hard work. I found that, as a solo angel, it was difficult to complete adequate due diligence and very […]
National Organizations of Angels and Angel Groups In my last post, I confessed that a decade ago I was skeptical about the value of national organizations of angels and angel groups, but I was wrong. Despite my doubts, I participated as a member of the organization committee of the Angel Capital Association in the US. […]
Why are Angels Forming and Joining Angel Groups? Angels have been investing in entrepreneurial ventures for centuries. But angels organized in groups are rather new. The first formal angel group (Band of Angels) was organized by Hans Severiens in Palo Alto, California in 1994. The rate of formation of angel groups has been an amazing phenomenon over the […]
