Leo Tinkham, who has degrees from Bowdoin College, the University of Southern Maine - School of Business, and the Wharton School describes his path into and experience with angel investing including:
- What angel investing is
- How angel investing clubs operate
- How angel groups find companies to invest in
- The key factors he’s learned from years of investing of how to pick what companies to invest in
- How angel investor pitches run
- The typical questions asked during pitches
- The typical steps to become an angel investor
- What the training and learning curve was like for him
- A backdoor into angel investing before someone has the $1 million required to become one
- The perks of angel investing clubs outside of the companies you can invest in
- How the backdoor into angel investing made him his first $1 million
- The typical schedule of an angel investor
- What he likes about the role and challenges
- His experience with luck and how his friend Reed Hastings recognizes his own luck in creating Netflix
- Characteristics important to be successful as an investor
- Things he knows now he wishes he knew when he started
- The most important factors to look at when investing: connections, self-sustainability, and off-ramps
- Paid job opportunities within angel investing clubs
- Why he chose to get out of angel investing after years in multiple clubs
