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  Recently on Linkedin, I met a British man named James Green in Sweden. He created a very special Startup Studio (Venture Builder) called DQventures , and DQ = Don't Quit, which is to assist professionals, under the condition of having a job , how to turn a side-hustle into a business organization through continuous trial and error. I read a few of his Linkedin posts, and they are all very usefull.  And this one is a compilation of his experience in angel investment since 2012. He has invested in more than 85 companies. After sharing my personal experience, I will also share the original text of his article at the bottom of the article: 1. You don’t need to be very rich to be an angel investor. James himself is also an entrepreneur, and being an entrepreneur definately have highs and lows, so he said: "I have invested up to 75,000 USD, and the minimum investment of 250 pounds." When learning how to be an angel investor,  Crowdcube is a good platform to start with  ...

  The last time I posted information on investing in new ventures, I mentioned the types of investors, which are mainly divided into two categories, namely strategic investment and financial investment. The so-called strategic investment, whether it is an investment institution of a company, the so-called Coporate VC (CVC for short), or an angel investor,   in fact, many tend to invest in a strategic way.  Basically, there are two reasons, one is investment people in this field have relatively many resources to assist entrepreneurs. One is that investors are interested in certain new fields and feel that they may enter this field in the future, and theoretically there will be more resources to assist. For example, the well-known game accelerators in Taiwan also have their own investment funds. Their main advantage is that they can provide resources such as contacts, potential customers and other resources through the power of the group to help the growth of the entre...