Ron Conway (Angel Investors LP), Mike Maples Jr. (Floodgate) - Angel Investing Revealed

Entrepreneurial Thought Leaders (ETL)

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🗓️ 23 January 2008

⏱️ 60 minutes

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Experienced angel investors, Ron Conway, Founder of Angel Investors LP, and Mike Maples, Founder of Maples Investments, provide a rare look into the ins and outs of angel investing. Conway and Maples discuss how angel investors assess opportunities, provide assistance to entrepreneurs and transition start-ups to larger venture investments or exit. In addition, Conway and Maples provide advice to entrepreneurs about finding one's passion and developing that passion into new ventures, including insight into how much money to raise and how to manage that money after it is in the bank.

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0:00.0	You were listening to the Entrepreneurial Thought Leader series, brought to you weekly by the Stanford Technology Ventures Program.
0:10.0	You can find podcasts and video clips of these lectures online at edcorner.standford.edu.
0:19.2	I am so pleased to introduce our two speakers today.
0:22.4	We have Ron Conway and Mike Naples.
0:25.3	Ron is a legend in Angel Investing in the Valley.
0:29.2	In fact, he is invested in over 500 startups in his career and 50 in this last year alone.
0:37.3	And he has incredible stories to tell and great insights that he will share with us.
0:41.4	Mike Maples is a younger and newer angel investor, but with an incredible track record.
0:47.0	He was the founder of Motiv, is that correct?
0:50.1	That's right.
0:50.4	And which he took from the early beginning in the startup phase all the way through
0:54.2	selling it for a hundred million dollars and then went off and became an angel investor well actually
0:59.0	still public but it's still public but it's still public had an IPO yeah okay so great well we're going
1:04.6	to get some really great insights from these guys and i told them that if we have some disagreements
1:08.9	that would be fine it's great to get different points of view.
1:11.6	So my first question to you is, what actually is an angel investor?
1:17.6	Who wants to take that one?
1:20.6	Someone who loves to take a lot of risk.
1:23.6	And it's an individual, hopefully, who has some industry expertise,
1:31.0	who invests 50 or 100K in raw startups.
1:36.8	The term got derived in the 30s when people invested in Hollywood movies down in L.A., and they got the nickname Angels,
1:51.9	and that just carried its way on into high tech. But it's individuals who invest in early, early stage companies.
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