Tim’s Blinklist: Angel- How to Invest in Tech Startups by Jason Calacanis
2 min readJul 11, 2020
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…