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My First 9 Months as an Angel Investor

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Re: My First 9 Months as an Angel Investor

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Would love to know if there are any industries/verticals you have found yourself steering clear of and, if so, why?

The recruiting space! Mostly because I spent 3 years banging my head against a wall in that space.

Generally, I get nervous in the consumer space, but I've made several consumer investments.

There are a couple spaces I'd like to do something in -- education, robots, anything kid-related (b/c I have two young boys).

Re: My First 9 Months as an Angel Investor

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Reading legal docs does suck for angels. We launched a product on AngelList that completely standardized the seed-round docs (debt or equity), the early adopters liked it, but we didn't get traction and it was an awful lot of legwork to maintain.

good initial press, but it didn't work out ( there's an entire blog post I could write about why)

http://pandodaily.com/2012/09/05/angellist-launches-free-see...