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Information Arbitrage: Super-Angel Networks: Seed Capital 3.0

25 Sep 2008   | Super Angels

Tags: types of investor

LINK TO ORIGINAL ARTICLE:
  • http://www.informationarbitrage.com/2008/04/super-angel-net.html

I call these entities ‘Super Angels.’ As Kim Rachmeler said during CI Foo camp back in February, “The network knows what the nodes know not.’ Translation: by leveraging networks, you can learn stuff that you yourself cannot through an insular, go-it-alone approach. Now any VC will tell you “Oh yeah, I speak to firm X, Y, Z, and expert A, B and C.’ But the issue is that there are always conflicted motives. Are the VCs really going to get straight, honest answers from their peers? Come on. It’s a big dance, they all know some pretty girls and they want to make sure they’re dancing with as many as they possibly can. Super Angels, conversely, truly value the expertise, complementary skills and expanded networks offered by other Super Angels. They are not so much in competition with one another as they are wanting to do good deals and to de-risk them through a combination of capital and top-notch, value-added investors. But the difference between this loose confederation of Super Angels and the common angel networks is that both the nodes and the networks among the Super Angels are often far stronger. At least this is way it seems to me.

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