What It Actually Takes to Close an Angel Check

The further down that traction funnel you can get, the more subsequent commitments you can secure from enterprise customers, the easier time you're going to have raising from angels. And the way you treat it is go talk to people who have raised in your space, go talk to founders, go talk to active angels and get their feedback of like, listen, in this domain, in, I don't know, in the world of custom swimsuits or bike tires, because they're all— there's niches for all this stuff, right? Like, what does it take to close an angel in terms of traction? If I've got a custom bike brand, what does it take to close from an angel? If I've got a medical device startup, does that change for a surgical tool or some wellness device? And the goal is to find people who've done it before, and they'll tell you how far that funnel you have to get.