In the final episode of the podcast I, Sal Daher, review important lessons I learned in seven years of interviews and decades of investing. In my voice and in the voice of my guests, I recapitulate the discoveries most salient to me and invite listeners to find their own nuggets in the sound archive which will remain available on Apple Podcasts and other platforms. AngelInvestBoston.com will have 250 episode pages with sound, notes, and in most cases, annotated transcripts. I’ll be publishing new content at Substack.com focused on keeping fit as we age. You can find me there under Sal Daher or under Aging Fit. Startups will show up occasionally. Here’s a link to the Substack:  Thanks for listening. Highlights:  ·&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Lesson 1: Company-Specific Risk – The Bad &amp; The Good – Why It Matters in Startup Investing ·&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Lesson 2A: “You know nothing, Jon Snow” – The Need for Tight Risk Control ·&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Lesson 2B: “You Know Nothing, Jon Snow” – Whence a Real 400X Return ·&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Lesson 3A: What to Look for in a Startup? What to Look for in a Founding Team? ·&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Lesson 3B: The Most Significant Results from Ed Roberts’ Research ·&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Lesson 4A: It’s Important Not to Keep Your Idea Secret but to Talk to Many People About It ·&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Lesson 4B: The Google Problem – Why Founders Should Be Open About their Ideas ·&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Lesson 3B Recapitulated: Robust Finding: Larger Teams Do Better; Startups Tend to Have Teams that Are Too Small ·&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Lesson 5A: Focus, Focus, Focus  ·&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Lesson 5B: Focus, Focus, Focus ·&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Lesson 6: Take the Money &amp; Run ·&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Lesson 7:&nbsp; It’s a Long Way from the Lab to the Clinic ·&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Why I Am Ending the Podcast – Archive Available – See You at Substack.com  &nbsp; &nbsp; Guest: Sal Daher&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; Topics: angel investing strategies, co-founders, biotech, exits, pivots, partnerships with strategics

Sal Daher - Lessons Learned

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.

Sal Daher - Lessons Learned

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