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Stay away from the Angel investor game unless:

1. You're extremely rich. 2. You see it as a learning opportunity or you enjoy helping, without thought of financial reward.

What will happen, at the slightest whiff of success, is that professional investors and VC will swoop in at a moments notice, and dilute you to pieces.

In the end, you will have paid for the company while it was small, to get it started, and then the VC:s will snatch it away by diluting you. Hence nr 1 above, but be prepared to spend!



How does this happen with the typical SAFE?


Future investors can negotiate liquidation preference and participation terms that will give them a bigger part of the pot than their % ownership during a “liquidation event” I.e. basically any outcome other than an IPO will trigger those rights


But aren't the terms of a SAFE that you'll get the same terms as the best terms (MFN) offered to investors in the next round, up to a cap?

Seems like you get just as diluted by future rounds as the professional VCs that will make up the next round, if you get the same terms?

FWIW I don't think angel investments make any financial sense but see them as a minor chance of upside and a significant way to help and connect with people.


Sure. But "liquidation events" are not the events that give you the wins. The point of angel is to get in while the company is cheap. Dilution is part of the math.


100%

Angel investing is a fools game, unless you enjoy it for its own sake.




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