Sal's Investment Syndicate List:  Sponsored by Peter fasse, patent attorney:  Angel investor Paul Silva has an idea about how to help startups after they exit accelerators. Launch413 is taking the friction out of getting and giving advice to founders. Great chat with a fun guest who is also a listener. Highlights:  Sal Daher Introduces Angel Investor Paul Silva “…because they're a first-time founder, so they're going to make all the first-timer mistakes. We don't want to pay the tuition bill for them to learn, right?” “…a lot of great founders out there that don't…have access to those things, and so angels…say no because they're inexperienced. That drove me nuts. That was the problem that inspired Launch413.” “…providing each of our entrepreneurs a virtual C-suite of executive coaches.” “…we get compensation…through a royalty sharing agreement with the entrepreneurs. We don't take any equity.” 413 Portfolio Startup IgnitePost Greatly Improves Responses to Sales Calls 413 Portfolio Startup Apprentiscope Takes the Friction Out of Hiring Interns Super Angel Jay Batson’s Back Story and Revenue Based Finance Sal’s Portfolio Company AceUp Makes Coaching Easy for Large Enterprises Sal Daher Asks Paul Silva About Ways to Back Early-Stage Biotech Startups Eric Ries’ Podcast Out of the Crisis Sal’s Critique of Syndications – Paul Silva’s Response QSM Diagnostics – Doing a Lot with Modest Funding Savran Tech., Purdue Company with Ultra-Rare Cell Technology Waseem Daher of Pilot on Why You Can’t Have Too Many Angels “As an angel, I love that my money is helping do all the things, but I really want to do more. I want to help.” Paul Silva Brainstorms Ways to Help Purdue Connect with Angels “There's a huge gap in what happens after the entrepreneur launches the company.” “He joined a group of these angel investors in New England where they ride in their motorcycle and they listen to angel pitches in different towns in New England”

Paul Silva, Angel Investor - Launch413

Tivan Amour is reinventing how urban bikes are designed and sold. This is a tall order. The competition is ferocious. Wise counsel is justifiably skeptical of the possibility of success in this endeavor. Yet, Tivan is gaining traction with his approach. He may be defying the odds. This young repeat founder bristles with energy but is also capable of contemplation. He is a growth hacker familiar with the Socratic Dialogue. He is hugely ambitious yet generous with the less fortunate. &nbsp;It was great fun interviewing him and he taught me a bunch of things. Among these were the real value of Techstars to founders and some pointers on growing a customer base. Here is a list of the topics covered:  Tivan Amour Bio What Effect Did Working for AT&amp;T While Still in College Have in Tivan’s Life? Tivan as a Product Manager at Abercrombie &amp; Fitch Tivan Starts His First Company Tivan Decides Boston Is Just Right for Him What Tivan Learned from Volunteering at BUILD How Tivan Structures His Day Tivan’s First Company Pivots Genesis of Fortified Bike – New Way to Market to Bike Shops – Cutting Out Distributors Fortified Bike Goes into Techstars The Real Value of Techstars to the Founder Changing Co-founders com Has Won Plaudits from Experts for Its Efficacy – Tivan’s Advice on Building a Website

Tivan Amour, Young Repeat Founder & Growth Hacker, "Growth Rider" Ep. 17

Through the Angel Invest Boston Podcast we seek to learn more about the creation of world-changing startups. Boston’s unique concentration of academic talent and entrepreneurial culture offer bountiful opportunities for conversations with people who have funded and built innovative companies. By recounting engaging stories, angels and founders convey lessons they have learned. These narratives illustrate the rewards of helping founders commercialize transformative technologies. We hope you too will find our dialogues entertaining and instructive. 
I’m Sal Daher, host of the Angel Invest Boston Podcast. After immigrating to Boston as a child and attending Belmont High School, I studied engineering at MIT and Stanford. Decades of work in international finance followed. During that time, I invested in a handful of ventures founded by friends and acquaintances. Now, I’m a member of Walnut Ventures and MIT Angels and spend most of my time as an angel investor taking stakes in about a dozen startups per year.

Paul Silva, Angel Investor - Launch413

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