My wife and I have recently started doing some angel investing (you can see what startups we've invested in on my AngelList profile). If I sent you to this blog post, it's probably because you thought we might be interested in investing in your startup.

Here's a guide on what we're looking for:

As I wrote in this blog post, we consider angel investing to be just about the riskiest thing one can do with one's capital. So we are very, very careful about how we deploy our cash to invest in startups.

For us to justify an investment in a startup, we have to believe that our cash has a greater potential return (and of not being lost completely) than any other alternative -- and since we're very bullish on ETFs for equity growth, and LendingClub for putting cash to work to get monthly distributions, that's a pretty high bar for us, because the reality is that most startup bets will fail.

Some angel investors mitigate this risk by investing in a large number of startups, and this is an approach we've discussed, and may pursue at one point. If & when we do this, we'll be much more likely to be more aggressive with angel investments.

Awhile back, I turned Martin's awesome spreadsheet on convertible note valuation cap numbers into a Google doc, and I've since gotten a lot of "edit" access requests for it from entrepreneurs.

It takes just a little bit of work for me to duplicate the spreadsheet as a private one for you so you can edit it (w/o messing up the original).  I'm happy to do that work, but in exchange I'd like to ask you to do the following:

1) Please submit your request for edit access as a comment to this post (you can register with an anonymous name if you don't want the world to know you're looking at this stuff).

2) Please share your questions, thoughts & learnings about convertible notes below in the comments, so other entrepreneurs can benefit from the discussion as well.  

Here's why this type of thing is important to me: http://go.DanielOdio.com/knowledge-sharing

Hey guys,

I've recently started using a crm, and I picked Zoho because its free for 1-3 people.

I'm pretty much brand new to using any CRM so I'm a little confused as if its worth all the effort to spend my time doing data entry. Especially since I'm sending about 20 cold emails a day to prospects.

So my question is, should I type in the emails of all those prospects as leads?

Is the mail merge functionality smooth?

We met at the mobile media summit last year. We're thinking about moving to the space at 450 Townsend!

Take Care,

@annebot

Hello,

My name is Dewayne Jasper, and I am really interested for guest post in your blog, I am a writer and wrote for motorcycle related stuff, if you can assist me in any way so kindly let me know.

My Email address is [email protected]

Hope for good and waiting for your kind response.

Hi Daniel,

How are you? I hope you are doing well. I am the CEO of Outroop, which is my new venture, created to help consumers and businesses find independent local service providers more easily. Outroop also promotes a competitive pricing environment to help the consumer.

Outroop gives consumers and businesses the ability to control everyday work and repairs from the comfort of their own home or office. It makes it easy for consumers and businesses to have independent local service providers bid on work to get the best price and quality. Outroop’s mission is to help people have the ability to get more work and get the work done.

Our Story

Via Quartz (one of my favorite new reads!):

If you knew you were going out on a certain holiday night, you could bid for a future Uber ride—a FUber, if you will—based on a given hypothetical distance and surge factor, to guarantee yourself a spot in a car that evening.