The other day I suggested to my 10 year-old daughter to build a website for her drawings. She then told me Squarespace is the best way to build a website. I was like .. where does this come from?! It turned out she heard this from a Youtube commercial (over…

After publishing the Angel Investments vs. Stocks article, I got a few founders asking how to get investments from angel investors. I couldn’t speak for others but I would like to offer more specific details on how I evaluate the founding team. Again, people have different opinions on this. I…

(This is an invited post from Silicon Valley Investors Club.) I have been angel investing since 2012. I have made 60+ direct investments and 120+ syndicate investments so far. I documented in great detail the performance from my angel investment portfolio in these two articles. …

TL;DR: SMB tool distribution is extremely hard. Tools that don’t serve essential functions either go upstream to enterprises or go out of business. A potential viable path is for startups that build SMB tools to bootstrap to critical mass. …

The crowd funding platforms have experienced astronomical growth since I started startup investing in 2012. IMO, They are pretty good places for angel investors to get started. There are many equity crowd funding platforms but I only have experiences with AngelList, FundersClub, MicroVentures and TheSyndicate.com. …

Recently one of my old school mates in high school quit her corporate job. Understandably, she doesn’t want to spend her whole career helping her company sell more instruments. She wants to work on something more meaningful. Since I have a bit of experience working at nonprofits and philanthropic organizations…

People often asked why I started Zumplings. Well, it’s a long story I wish to tell another day. But one of the main reasons I started Zumplings is I want to understand the food industry better. Over the years, I invested in a good number of food startups such as…