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Not all profitable startups are good investments for angels. Angels fund only businesses that are scalable, with the expectation of financial returns. We often are asked to invest in lifestyle businesses, such as restaurants, retail stores, or personal service businesses. These may be fine, profitable businesses, but they are simply not fundable. Such businesses are typically too labor-intensive to allow the scalability angels require. Nor do they offer the opportunity for a decent exit that angels need to make up for the large number of losses we historically have.
What Every Angel Investor Wants You to Know
Brian Cohen, John Kador
The word hello does not exist in Gaelic. The way that you encounter someone is through blessing. You say, Dia Dhuit, God be with you. They respond, Dia is Muire dhuit, God and Mary be with you. When you are leaving a person, you say, Go gcumhdaí Dia thu, May God come to your assistance or Go gcoinne Dia thú, May God keep you. The ritual of encounter is framed at the beginning and at the end with blessing.
It is true that many experiences feel as if they don’t necessarily require the presence of your physical self (e.g., the “feeling” of sadness and the imagery in your mind that accompanies it), but if you don’t have a brain, or by extension, a body that it senses, you don’t have an experience.
Anatomy of the Soul
Curt Thompson M.D.
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