Any Success with Angel Investing?

[Da Capo]

With the recent pass of the JOBS Act, the ban on startups soliciting for funding has been lifted and we are entering a new era of angel investing and crowdfunding.

JOBS Act Expected to Increase Diversity in Funding | Entrepreneur.com

While this will create a lot more opportunities for investors who don't have a lot of connections with startups and did not have access to these deals in the past, I am a little wary of a new herd mentality with these new investors flooding the market and throwing their money into high risk ventures.

Though you still need to be an accredited investor to put money into a startup which means a 200k salary or 1 million net worth.

Has anyone had success with angel investing in the past? How about Angel.co for finding investment opportunities?

 

[contract]

Still messed up.

I can have $10,000,000 in assets.

But if my gross yearly income is $100,000. I can't do anything.

....

Government has it's fingers on everything.

 

[VinBed]

Still messed up.

I can have $10,000,000 in assets.

But if my gross yearly income is $100,000. I can't do anything.

....

Government has it's fingers on everything.

$10m in assets qualifies you for $1m in net worth iirc.

 

[mituozo]

Angel investing is a game that most people lose. The average person doesn't have access to the best deals, either.

 

[HeadStartSEO]

Crowdfunding / crowdinvesting is the future. There are plenty of people you can ask to give you money:

 

[schockergd]

JOBS 2012 is a royal screwjob. Terrible, terrible, terrible.


There are ways to get investment, but you have to go outside of the US *hint hint*.

 

[juntao65]

Whenever I have a crazy idea that needs funding, I just ask Jon or mGrunin.

 

[miketpowell]

The winners are mostly going to be the ones that get the money - not the ones investing.

 

[xRAPx]

London based start-up accelerators are booming, if you're looking to do some angel investing I'd highly recommend looking into them. Its easier to become an partner than you might think, you just gotta bring some shit to the table. Dont think you can just throw money at ideas and become the next Peter Thiel.

 

[Fatbat]

I've never heard of such a ridiculous law. If I want to invest in a startup, or a startup wants to solicit me for funding, why the fuck does the gov't get a say in the matter? That's just fucking retarded. Way to stifle growth by making it as hard as possible to start a business.

 

[secretagentdad]

I've never heard of such a ridiculous law. If I want to invest in a startup, or a startup wants to solicit me for funding, why the fuck does the gov't get a say in the matter? That's just fucking retarded. Way to stifle growth by making it as hard as possible to start a business.

The reason the laws exist is to keep the scum bags currently slinging the mlm style diet offers from running vanilla ponzi schemes.

Yes its not the best way to do this, but it was done because the sec needed a flat rule, not a set of regulations that could worked around so that they could go after ponzi schemes with out getting their asses kicked in court due to our corporate governance and liability laws.