# angel investor (blogs) — RSS Amplifier Recent posts from the 4 feeds in the RSS Amplifier directory that cover angel investor. Page: Feed: --- ## [How I stopped my Claude Code subagents from secretly running on Fable instead of Sonnet](https://thomas-witt.com/blog/blog-subagent-model-pin/) _2026-08-15 · Thomas Witt · Thomas Witt: Tech Entrepreneur & Angel Investor_ I run Claude Code with a big session model, Fable or Opus 5, plus a small zoo of subagents doing the boring parts. Gateway agents, formatters, checkers. The kind of mechanical stuff you pin to a small model once, in the agent’s frontmatter, and then never think about again. ## [Help, my dentist started coding!](https://thomas-witt.com/blog/help-my-dentist-started-coding/) _2026-07-04 · Thomas Witt · Thomas Witt: Tech Entrepreneur & Angel Investor_ There is a recurring pattern in enterprise software history: technologies that initially promised dramatic productivity gains by hiding complexity eventually created large applications that became difficult or impossible to maintain. ## [Connecting Your Unifi UDM Dream Machine Directly to Your Fiber Internet](https://thomas-witt.com/blog/connecting-your-udm-pro-directly-to-your-fiber-internet/) _2026-06-08 · Thomas Witt · Thomas Witt: Tech Entrepreneur & Angel Investor_ You sign up for fiber internet, you’ve already got a perfectly good router - a Ubiquiti Dream Machine (Unifi UDM) - and all you want is to plug the optics plug straight into it. ## [How I freed a pool heat pump from an unencrypted Chinese cloud server](https://thomas-witt.com/blog/how-to-free-a-pool-heat-pump-from-an-unencrypted-chinese-server/) _2026-05-03 · Thomas Witt · Thomas Witt: Tech Entrepreneur & Angel Investor_ I have a pre-installed pool heat pump - an “AcquaSource” branded unit, the kind you can buy at any pool store in Europe - which supports WiFi. The App called “Pool Panel” wasn’t pretty, but it worked and I didn’t give it much thought. At one time, the remote control of the pump stopped responding: The pump itself was fine; the panel worked, the temperature held. So I decided to take a deeper look… ## [Networking at Startup Conferences — Part II: What to Do DURING the Event](https://startuplifelessons.substack.com/p/networking-at-startup-conferences) _2026-03-25 · Sven Illing · Startup | Life Lessons_ How I Met a Future Substack Co-Founder ## [What I'd Tell Every Designer Before They Enter the AI Startup World](https://freedomstartup.substack.com/p/what-id-tell-every-designer-before) _2026-03-24 · Alex Cheng · Freedom Startup: Built to Exit_ I’ve hired designers, contracted them, and worked alongside them as a co-founder building AI startups. ## [The 'Boring' Path to Building a Million-Dollar Business With OpenClaw and Vibe Coding](https://freedomstartup.substack.com/p/the-boring-path-to-building-a-million) _2026-03-16 · Alex Cheng · Freedom Startup: Built to Exit_ Everyone is building AI startups. A quiet group of solo builders is actually shipping them — in weeks, with no investors, no team, and no permission. ## [I Read the Anthropic Legal Prompts That Crashed $285B in Stocks](https://thomas-witt.com/blog/285-billion-wiped-out-because-of-a-text-file/) _2026-02-05 · Thomas Witt · Thomas Witt: Tech Entrepreneur & Angel Investor_ On February 3, 2026, tech stocks went into free fall. Thomson Reuters dropped 15.83% — its biggest single-day decline on record. LegalZoom fell 19.68%. The Goldman Sachs US software basket lost 6%. Total damage: $285 billion in market cap, gone in a single session. ## [The Clean Exit Advantage: Why Angel Investors in Vertical B2B SaaS See Liquidity Faster Than VC LPs](https://freedomstartup.substack.com/p/the-clean-exit-advantage-why-angel) _2026-01-26 · Alex Cheng · Freedom Startup: Built to Exit_ One of the biggest frustrations I hear from investors today doesn’t come from startup founders — it comes from LPs in venture capital funds. Capital has been committed for years, valuations have gone up and down on paper, yet real liquidity remains elusive. Distributions are slow, exits are rare, and timelines keep stretching. ## [The 3-Year Liquidity Window: Why Now Is the Best Time to Be an Angel Investor](https://freedomstartup.substack.com/p/the-3-year-liquidity-window-why-now) _2025-12-19 · Alex Cheng · Freedom Startup: Built to Exit_ For decades, angel investors were told to think like venture capitalists. ## [Crush Every Threat in Real Time (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/qhfSEo9MyBjf) _2025-12-19 · **Sponsored**_ One agent for real-time detection, exposure tracking, and active defense. ## [The Angel Advantage: Why Freedom Startups Thrive When VCs Pull Back](https://freedomstartup.substack.com/p/the-angel-advantage-why-freedom-startups) _2025-12-04 · Alex Cheng · Freedom Startup: Built to Exit_ A quiet shift is happening in the startup ecosystem. ## [Why Speed Is the Most Valuable Asset for Angels Backing Vertical AI](https://freedomstartup.substack.com/p/why-speed-is-the-most-valuable-asset) _2025-11-29 · Alex Cheng · Freedom Startup: Built to Exit_ Most angel investors still look for the same old “moats”: data, IP, defensibility, network effects. ## [The Exit Contract: Why Angels Should Only Back Founders Who Commit to Selling Before Scaling](https://freedomstartup.substack.com/p/the-exit-contract-why-angels-should) _2025-11-28 · Alex Cheng · Freedom Startup: Built to Exit_ One of the biggest sources of tension in early-stage investing comes from a simple truth: founders and angels often want different things. ## [The 90-Day Rule: Why Angels Should Only Back Startups That Can Prove Real Progress Every Quarter](https://freedomstartup.substack.com/p/the-90-day-rule-why-angels-should) _2025-11-21 · Alex Cheng · Freedom Startup: Built to Exit_ In early-stage investing, momentum is everything. ## [The Customer-Ready Test: Why Angels Should Only Invest in Startups That Can Sell Before They Build](https://freedomstartup.substack.com/p/the-customer-ready-test-why-angels) _2025-11-20 · Alex Cheng · Freedom Startup: Built to Exit_ One of the biggest shifts happening in early-stage B2B AI is the idea that startups should be able to sell before they build. ## [The Early Exit Advantage: How Angels Can Win Big Without Waiting a Decade](https://freedomstartup.substack.com/p/the-early-exit-advantage-how-angels) _2025-11-13 · Alex Cheng · Freedom Startup: Built to Exit_ One of the biggest misconceptions in angel investing is that success requires patience — the kind of patience that ties up capital for eight to ten years while waiting for a unicorn outcome. ## [Angel Investors, A Field Guide](https://www.jeanyang.com/posts/angel-investors-a-field-guide/) _2025-08-11 · Jean Yang_ I’ve been lucky to work with some of the best angel investors in the business. When I started Akita, my angel investors were my mentor Jason Hong , superangel Elad Gil , #ANGELS co-founder Jana Messerschmidt , Eventbrite co-founders Kevin and Julia Hartz , Stanford professor Dan Boneh , and NBA player Kevin Durant . I became a more well-prepared and well-connected founder thanks to my angel… ## [How AI Helped Me Build This Blog](https://www.jeanyang.com/posts/how-ai-helped-me-build-this-blog/) _2025-07-22 · Jean Yang_ I’ve been without a main platform. I haven’t written on Blogger since 2019; I never got into my Substack ; my Twitter is now private. For the last year, I’d become convinced that self-hosting a blog is the way to go. For a few months, my goal has been to copy Will Larson and use the Hugo framework. But Will had warned me that Hugo is a pain to set up, and so I procrastinated.… ## [Why AI Will Create A Whole Lot More Developers](https://www.jeanyang.com/posts/ai-will-create-developers/) _2025-07-21 · Jean Yang_ This originally appeared as a post on my LinkedIn . Everybody is talking about how AI will threaten developer jobs. But here’s the thing: there are lots of people with a vested interest in having you believe that. 🤨 My take: all engineers will become AI engineers and there will be more software developers jobs than ever before. 🚀 Lots of people are motivated to have you believe that AI is… ## [The Art of Networking](https://startuplifelessons.substack.com/p/the-art-of-networking) _2025-07-08 · Sven Illing · Startup | Life Lessons_ Part I – Preparing for Success ## [Trade Bitcoin and Ethereum Today (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/Vox3tqdB1DYn) _2025-07-08 · **Sponsored**_ Buy, sell, and margin trade BTC and ETH with EUR, USD, CAD, GBP, or JPY. ## [Life lesson: less perfection, more action](https://startuplifelessons.substack.com/p/life-lesson-less-perfection-more) _2025-06-05 · Sven Illing · Startup | Life Lessons_ I've been thinking about writing a blog since 1999, back when my friend Marko Lepik was blogging about his life at Duke University. ## [From a Stalled Map to an Async AWS SDK: Why I Built aws-sdk-http-async](https://thomas-witt.com/blog/aws-sdk-http-async/) _2025-01-19 · Thomas Witt · Thomas Witt: Tech Entrepreneur & Angel Investor_ I maintain a side project called Airfield Directory, a Rails app backed by DynamoDB for general aviation pilots.