I recently did a deck and moderated a talk at the Angel Capital Association Leadership Conference in Boston about what different established angel groups are doing on screening deal flow – best practices, tools, sources, staffing, fees, how group size affects it, etc. Lots of data (based on a large survey of almost 100 angel groups, mostly in the US) – some of it is pretty interesting. I have been asked repeatedly to share the slides, so here they are (email readers can access them here).
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When I think of Boston as a start-up community I am reminded of the beer commercial – though in this case, it might be “tastes great, less hype.” There is an absolute hive of activity going on here – great start-ups, great schools, vibrant investor ecosystem, incubators and accelerators of every kind, and events on a nearly 24×7 basis. But it is not a showy town. Entrepreneurs just try to get after it with an under-promise and over-deliver attitude, and that is what I love about the city.
A really smart investor I know named Tom Huntington (who blogs at On Strategy & Execution) likes to make the point that, in a lot of ways, Market ends up being more important than Team in determining the success of a start-up. It’s a variation of the old jockey vs. horse question (for a lot of interesting takes on that, see my 
I recently did a deck and moderated a talk at the Angel Capital Association Leadership Conference in Boston about ways angel groups may evolve to adapt to changing market conditions over the coming years, particularly crowdfunding platforms allowing for new kinds of less-traditional investing (i.e. less contact with the companies, potentially less value-add, larger, less-tightly integrated syndicates). The observations represent the thinking of the leaders of some of largest groups in California, Massachusetts, Texas. I have been asked repeatedly to share the slides, so here they are (email readers can access them here). PS: thanks to George McQuilken of Angel Investing News for the nice write up on this. Maia Heymann of Common Angels, Ralph Meyers of TechCoast Angels and Jamie Rhodes of Central Texas Angel Network were awesome to work with and brainstorm with.