Sal Daher - Lessons Learned

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:

Sal Daher's Substack - Aging Fit

Thanks for listening.

Highlights:

• ·      Lesson 1: Company-Specific Risk – The Bad & The Good – Why It Matters in Startup Investing
• ·      Lesson 2A: “You know nothing, Jon Snow” – The Need for Tight Risk Control
• ·      Lesson 2B: “You Know Nothing, Jon Snow” – Whence a Real 400X Return
• ·      Lesson 3A: What to Look for in a Startup? What to Look for in a Founding Team?
• ·      Lesson 3B: The Most Significant Results from Ed Roberts’ Research
• ·      Lesson 4A: It’s Important Not to Keep Your Idea Secret but to Talk to Many People About It
• ·      Lesson 4B: The Google Problem – Why Founders Should Be Open About their Ideas
• ·      Lesson 3B Recapitulated: Robust Finding: Larger Teams Do Better; Startups Tend to Have Teams that Are Too Small
• ·      Lesson 5A: Focus, Focus, Focus
• ·      Lesson 5B: Focus, Focus, Focus
• ·      Lesson 6: Take the Money & Run
• ·      Lesson 7:  It’s a Long Way from the Lab to the Clinic
• ·      Why I Am Ending the Podcast – Archive Available – See You at Substack.com

    Guest: Sal Daher 

    Topics: angel investing strategies, co-founders, biotech, exits, pivots, partnerships with strategics