This is the fourth article in a series on what it takes to be a great angel investor (and why this should matter to entrepreneurs). The first three skills I espoused were: access to the highest-quality deal-flow, domain knowledge of the topic area in which you’re investing and access to VCs to help fund the next stages of development. MORE >>

recently wrote a post on angel financing covering the topic of convertible notes but I realized I was thinking about the issue more from investor perspective and a very narrow topic of how to price the round. This post is for those who want to raise angel money. At an angel round you can get away with no market validation. MORE >>

First, we’ve moved summaries (and pictures) from the stories to the lefthand news column, instead of just featuring the titles and requiring a click into stories. We’ll be expanding these over the next few weeks. Let us know what you think! Kuo, publisher of socalTECH.com. All Rights Reserved MORE >>

Every investment so far in this YC batch (and there have been a lot) has been done on a convertible note.&#. I’ve written about the topic of convertible debt at length before specifically about how angels & entrepreneurs should think about pricing. angel, seed) you’re taking the most risk. 20-25% dilution). MORE >>

Short summary of my posts: 1. There is a structural reason that VCs are investing at early stages, 2. I’ve done 4 seed investments in the past year and they are 100% referenceable. Investors will look at which angels you chose, whether old bosses invested, whether you were an EIR somewhere and did they invest, etc. MORE >>