Investing in startups as part of a group of like-mind investors has numerous advantages. Whether your goal is to enhance your portfolio return, give back to your community, or just plain have fun, consider these benefits:
- As a group there is more leverage in negotiating good, but fair, deals with companies
- Learn about Angel Investing from other Members who have many deals and years of experience
- Work with a set of tried and proven process to select and invest in companies
- A continuous and evaluated pipeline of deals to screen
- Shared efforts on screening companies and doing due diligence tasks
- Get the benefit of the domain expertise of the membership in many markets/technologies to better evaluate deals
- Have others to share successes and commiserate with on failures
