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SuperscoutFounder who exited and is now angel investing.
A recurring responsibility is evaluating startup opportunities through screening, founder meetings, due diligence, and term or closing review.
responsibility
The role identifies key risks, develops an investment thesis, and records what must be believed before committing.
task
The role sources deals through founder, operator, investor, and trusted-referral networks.
task
Private placements can require the investor to tolerate total loss, indefinite holding periods, restricted securities, limited disclosure, and changing state or federal legal requirements.
constraint
Recurring decision criteria include founder and management quality, market opportunity, competitive advantage, product or technology, go-to-market plan, financial assumptions, funding strategy, terms, exit potential, and founder-investor alignment.
decision criterion
Before investing, the role needs evidence about management, product or technology, customers, market, competition, financials, funding plan, use of proceeds, legal and IP issues, terms, and exit paths.
information needed
The role may invest independently, with an angel group, through a syndicate, or through a small fund formed with founder and operator peers.
organizational context
A trusted referral, founder pitch, or completed application triggers opportunity screening.
trigger
Natural terminology includes angel, check size, allocation, syndicate, co-invest, due diligence, investment thesis, term sheet, restricted securities, accredited investor, portfolio, follow-on, and exit.
terminology
Put the context to work
Keep opportunities, source context, evaluation notes, and next actions together.
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