Marco Salvalaggio - Fintech Angel

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A career in international finance gives Marco Salvalaggio an unusual perspective on angel investing. We discussed his favorite startups and pondered strategies founders and angels can use to build better companies. 

Sponsored by Purdue University entrepreneurship and Peter Fasse, patent attorney at Fish and Richardson.

Highlights: 

• Sal Daher Introduces Marco Salvalaggio
• HappyNest: An App-Based Laundry Service
• Cactivate: Ad Placing for Small Businesses
• Revizion: Software for Managing Customer Reviews
• The Difference Between California and New England Angel Investors
• “...You need the Puritanism of New England and you also need the can-do informality of California…”
• Marco's Background
• “...It was the convergence of my personal life with my professional life that got me to Angel investment because I met a very nice woman that eventually became my wife…”
• Advice to the Audience
• “...if you have perspective where you understand the whole technology cycle ... that means that you're going to have less waste of resources, that means higher returns…”

Topics: angel investing strategies, discovering entrepreneurship, fin tech