How to Angel Invest in Yourself

As part of your income strategy, you can buy companies that generate positive cash flow

Your goal should be to create your own personal seed fund to make an angel investment in yourself.

Angel investing in yourself is a simple mindset shift, yet it’s tough to actually execute. Your goal should be to reframe how you approach traditional investment returns. Effectively split your investments into 2 buckets. One, the traditional path designed as retirement savings. The other, your angel portfolio that you’ll use over the next 5 to 10 year period to reinvest profits in yourself.

I used this mindset when I designed my crypto investing strategy. ie: My goal is to aggressively grow my capital by investing in a major technology trend at the societal level. Assuming I make good investments, I’ll then extract some of this capital and put it towards buying my own cash generating activities. I think of it as an angel investment in myself. Creating a business called — Me, Inc.

By investing relatively early, I hope to grow my capital by 100x in the next 5 years. Perhaps an overly ambitious goal, but based on historic returns of the crypto industry, this isn’t an insane idea. It’s an aggressive goal and obviously not guaranteed. The total return amount isn’t really the point.

Investing to build an angel fund is more about setting a target date and attempting to maximize returns within that window for a specific goal aside from retirement.

I recently read Peter Thiel’s book, Zero to One and the chapters on power laws and his investment philosophy…

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