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This Week in Startups

Announcement: Learn how to become a professional angel investor at Angel.University Online

This Week in Startups

Jason Calacanis

Technology

4.41.3K Ratings

🗓️ 9 June 2020

⏱️ 2 minutes

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Summary

Angel.University Online is a 3-hour course for individuals interested in becoming professional angel investors. Hosted by Jason Calacanis & Mike Savino, the course focuses on five key topics: sourcing deals, evaluating startups, negotiating deals, portfolio and bankroll management, and post-deal efforts.

Register: https://www.angel.university/events

Transcript

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0:00.0

Hey everybody. I wanted to let you know that I am hosting another angel

0:04.1

university on June 15th and another one on July 14th. I teach this with my friend

0:10.7

Mike Savino, who's a lifelong friend, actually was my first boss when I was working in IT in New York City.

0:17.0

And in this workshop, we share our lessons in deploying close to a hundred million dollars in over 250 startups.

0:24.4

Yep, I've invested in a lot of startups in my day.

0:27.0

And you know some of them, Uber, Robin Hood,

0:29.1

Com, Wealthfront, so many others.

0:31.4

And what I like to teach people in this course is how to source

0:35.8

companies, portfolio construction, how to avoid mistakes, what to do in an interview

0:41.2

with a founder when you're meeting meeting and then how to make decisions

0:44.8

as well as should you go pro rata.

0:46.5

I do this essentially for free.

0:48.8

Basically all I ask is that you make a donation to COVID-19 charities and I'm happy to say we've raised $50,000 already from the 700

0:59.6

people who have taken the course during the pandemic and so if you want to learn about

1:05.6

angel investing just donate a hundred bucks you can donate more if you want to

1:09.2

if your ball or you can give 300 or 500 whatever you want it It's a three hour course. We have a

1:13.9

slack room open while you're doing it and then you get to meet 500 other angel

1:18.7

investors and share deal flow with them. If you're an accredited investor and you can look that up online

1:24.8

basically it means you make 200 grand a year you have a million dollars in net worth I

1:27.9

think is the most recent definition then you can visit angel dot university and learn more and you can register.

1:36.1

And if you know anybody who's rich, who's bawler, who's bored, and wants to get into angel investing,

1:40.8

it's a really fun pursuit.

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