Shining the Light on Angel Investing: Interview with Merrick Furst, CEO of Flashpoint

Angel investing can generate returns that are highly uncorrelated and superior to the rest of an investor’s portfolio which is typically dominated by publicly traded equities, bonds or real estate. However, angel investing is fraught with risk and your investment may end up being worth zero which is why most individual investors stay away from what could be a highly profitable opportunity. The problem stems from the fact that most startups fail and less than one in a thousand delivers meaningful returns. In the article, Why and How to be an Angel Investor?, a fellow Forbes contributor, David Teten writes that angel investing outperforms any other investment class including Venture Capital and have averaged returns consistently well above 20% during the period from 1990s to 2014. The problem is that results vary widely from the mean. But what if there was a way to change the odds in your favor?