Angel: How to Invest in Technology Startups -- Timeless Advice from an Angel Investor Who Turned $100,000 into $100,000,000
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| Rating | : | 4.98 (957 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1538415569 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 1 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2013-06-19 |
| Language | : | English |
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Jason Calacanis is an Internet entrepreneur. He is an angel investor in technology startups and keynotes industry conferences around the world.
Whether you're an aspiring investor or a budding entrepreneur, Angel will inspire and educate you on all the ins of outs. Over the past twenty-five years, Jason Calacanis has made a fortune investing in creators, spotting and helping build and fund a number of successful technology startups--investments that have earned him tens of millions of dollars. He guides you step by step through the process, revealing how leading investors evaluate new ventures, calculating the risks and rewards, and explains how the best startups leverage relationships with angel investors for the best results. Calacanis takes you inside the minds of these successful moneymen, helping you understand how they prioritize and make the decisions that have resulted in phenomenal profits. As Calacanis makes clear, you can get rich--even if you came from humble beginnings (his dad was a bartender, his mom a nurse), didn't go to the right schools, and weren't a top student. *Read by the author - Jason CalacanisOne of Silicon Valley's m
''It's easy to snigger at the swagger, but Calacanis has reason to preen. He hasn't merely survived the bust; he's thrived in it. Only a sucker would bet against him.'' --Fast Company ''The sort of person who is frequently described as a character out of a movie.'' --The New Yorker ''Sequoia Capital has funneled millions of dollars to scores of well-connected entrepreneurs, academics, and other people known as scouts.Mr. The qualities that made him annoying to his New York colleagues during the boom -- his abrasive demeanor, his hucksterism, his incessant networking -- serve him well in the postbubble economy.'' --Wired''And that's the thing about Calacanis. He might stab you in the face, though.'' (Douglas Rushkoff)''Arguably the world's greatest angel investor.'' --(The Twenty Minute VC) . Calacanis was one of the earliest scouts and ran an online news startup
"Disconnect between author's experience and advice given" according to Totes Magotes. Within its first page, this book proclaims that it “will be the best business book ever written.” However, despite Calacanis’ 19 days of work writing this book (a fact he shared on his blog), I see this one falling short of the pantheon of all-time greats.Give credit where credit is due: Calacanis made an all-time great investment in Uber that made both him and Sequoia Capital many tens of millions . Here's the PROs and CONs of this book and Angel Investing Corey Creed I'm the same age (46) as Jason Calacanis and have been an entrepreneur starting and running various businesses for the last 16 years. I've seen first hand that you win some and you lose some when you are in business, no matter what. Jason's book hooked me because in it he teaches how to take a chance on lots of businesses. You do so by angel investing. Chances are some investments will win. In fact, in technology, so. "This Man Is An Angel" according to Mohammed Epstein. To those who are unfamiliar with the topic, angels play a very important role. They are intermediaries between the heavens and the mortal world, spreading divine light to mankind. In the parlance of modern times, this means allocating capital to startup businesses.Long ago in the Biblical era, angels could only be assessed qualitatively, through a (highly fallible) oral tradition of their deeds. Today, however, we ar