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5 tangible ways you can add value as a small ticket investor
When you think of an angel investor who comes to mind? Maybe an executive who worked 20 years in an investment bank and now has £100,000s to invest or an eccentric billionaire who sold his Crypto startup for millions and is now advising the next big startup in Artificial Intelligence? We all have different pictures…
Let’s talk about Angel Investing and Exits: How to think about Exits by Founder and Angel Investor Joe Kinvi
When thinking about exits, it can be quite an overwhelming topic to get your head around. When is the right time to exit? How will dilution impact my investment over time? How do I even exit from an investment? All these questions seem daunting at first but luckily they don’t have to be! Joe Kinvi,…
Lessons from Uber on how to build a startup with defensibility (a moat)?
In the competitive world of ride-hailing, Uber emerged as a trailblazing startup. But how did the Uber team make Uber what it is today? What stopped other competitors from replicating their business model? How did they win globally against the existing taxi market and local startup competitors such as Lyft? One word: moat. What is…
Market size in angel investing: What is it, why it matters and how to calculate it?
In 2009, angel investor Peter Thiel made a notable investment in a relatively unknown startup, which is now known as Facebook. Peter Thiel is one of Facebook’s, SpaceX’s, Airbnb’s and LinkedIn’s first investors, the Co-Founder of PayPal and Chairman of Palantir. When Facebook first launched, it was primarily focused on connecting college students and it…
Rohan Inneh’s Member Story
This guest blog has been written by Rohan Inneh. Here’s how AIS helped me leave my corporate consulting job to launch my own consulting & fractional COO offering. Chapter 1 – What is in your hands Joining AIS opened my eyes to the dynamic world of start-ups and scale-ups, and I instantly fell in love…
How do Pre-Seed Option Pools work?
In 2015, I moved from San Francisco to London and joined a Fintech startup, WordlFirst. They eventually got acquired by Ant Financial for $700m and despite being hired as the first Product Manager, I had no equity and didn’t benefit from the upside of the exit. It taught me a lesson about remuneration at high-growth…