Gil Syswerda III - Angel Investing

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Artificial intelligence guru Gil Syswerda is back to talk about angel investing and to give practical advice to founders. We closed with entertaining stories from Gil’s career.

Highlights:

• AI Guru Gil Syswerda Is Back to with Tips for Angels & Founders
• Why Founders Should Value Their Time at $10 per Minute
• “...I stopped driving...I take an Uber or Lyft because it's not worth my time to be in a car... An Uber is way cheaper than $10 a minute.”
• Advice to Founders: Find a Co-Founder with Critical Skills You Lack
• Advice to Founders: “You need to be in the trenches, along with everybody else.”
• “One thing you make a must-read is an article by Paul Graham. It's called Maker's Schedule, Manager's Schedule.”
• “...The Hard Truth About Innovative Cultures, Gary Pisano just nails it, when he talks about how to create an innovative culture...”
• “...get an executive assistant as soon as you can.”
• “...you just cannot function at 100% if you don't get enough sleep.”
• Exercise Is Essential: Intense Outdoor Exercise at Sunrise; plus do Bouts Like Taking the Stairs
• “It's actually quite difficult for most people to make money as an angel investor.”
• “...I believe that Jeff Arnold probably does pretty well on his investments but he has pretty grounded knowledge in the biotech space and he has a methodology for evaluating companies.” How to Make Money in Biotech with Jeff Arnold
• Frank Ferguson Was a Spectacularly Successful Investor (Bose and Curriculum Associates) by Focusing on a Few Investments Intensely Practical Dreamer with Frank Ferguson
• Howard Stevenson Got Warren-Buffett-like Returns on His Angel Portfolio [Wealth & Families with Howard Stevenson]
• Sal Daher and His Biotech Screen for Angel Investing
• “These people [academic founders] have tremendous skills. If we can help them turn those skills in the direction of something useful, I think they can create a lot of value.”
• VistaPath Bio Using Off-the-Shelf Machine Vision to Create Value in Pathology
• Gil Syswerda Stories
• The HP Interview or Everything I Needed to Know I Learned in Third Grade
• Growing Fish at BBN Labs
• The Interview at Lawrence Livermore Research Laboratory
• Gödel, Escher, Bach & All That
• The AI Researcher and the Daughter of the Soviet Scientist
• Simulating Professor Paul Scott
• How to Have a Board without a Board
• Gil Syswerda’s Perception of Where AI Is Today
• Gil Syswerda Highlights People Who Were Influential in His Success

Topics: co-founders, angel investing strategies, management