Startup Investing: How to Find, Evaluate, and Fund Early-Stage Companies as a Beginner

A startup stake is locked up for years and may pay nothing, so the real work happens before the money moves. This guide walks you through that work in order.

Startup Investing covers 21 chapters, from checking your own readiness to your first 12 months as an investor: finding deals, judging founders, reading the numbers and terms, and closing.

💼 Where startup investing belongs in your financial plan, and what comes before it

🎯 A one-sentence thesis that screens out most deals fast

🔥 How to tell real grit from a confident pitch

📊 Burn and runway, read straight from a bank statement

⚖️ Two investors, same percentage, very different payouts: the clauses behind it

🎲 Why 20 small checks behave differently from one large bet

🧠 Herd behavior and other mental habits that cost investors money, with a counter for each

Plus platforms and funds, taxes, how exits pay out, and a one-page investment memo template.

Get your copy. Do the prep first, then write the check.