Tim’s Blinklist: Angel- How to Invest in Tech Startups by Jason Calacanis

For the uninitiated

Bootstraping your angel journey

• Join a syndicate
• Be a broke angel, be an advisor

Your syndicate journey

• Contribute a ton lot
• Write deal memos

Building your angel network

• invest with known and experienced angels via syndicate
• build a spreadsheet of their contacts with their Linkedin, AngelList, Twitter, email details. Collect social currency by occasionally retweeting/liking/commenting on their posts.
• execute by emailing them when ready. example email template:

Hey Jason, we co-invested in Company Y together. Do you have time for a quick coffee next week? I plan to invest at least $2.5k each into 2 startups per month going forward and would love to trade notes. All the best, Tim

Goals of coffee chat

• Figure out what they invest in and why
• Figure out what value they bring to startups
• Offer them your own connections, and let them know what value you bring. Provide value to everyone in…