Abdul Golden walks through four steps to start angel investing: finding and evaluating deals, structuring terms, making the investment and managing it, then exiting when the company sells. You get to shape the product and community impact along the way.
You can participate as an angel investor and you can help influence some of these products that are being developed. You can help influence how these products affect you and your community. So how do you do that? There are really four steps of angel investing. The first one is you got to find deals. That's the first. That's the first thing. You got to find something to invest in. Then you have to evaluate it, right? You to find it. Then you got to make sure that it's good enough to invest in. The second thing you got to do is you got to structure and negotiate the deal. Once you find it, you got to figure out how you're going to make the investment and how much investment you're going to make. Then the third step is you actually make the investment and then you manage it. The last step is that you exit, which is that's when the company sells or gets bought or whatever. That's how you cash out at a high level. Those are the four steps of angel investing.
