Investing in Hailo and Going With Your Gut with Julian Ranger, Founder @ Digi.me

Julian Ranger has been an Angel Investor since 2007 and an entrepreneur since he formed his first business, STASYS in 1986. Which he sold to Lockheed Martin in 2005. Julian was responsible for the growth of STASYS to a £17M+ business with 230 staff, with subsidiaries in USA, Germany, Australia and Malaysia prior to sale to Lockheed Martin. Julian Left Lockheed Martin in June 2007, and has been an angel investor in many businesses, mainly technical in focus, including such successful businesses such as Astrobotic, Hailo and Datasift. If that wasn’t enough Julian also founded an Innovation Hub, iBundle, which has been responsible for a number of new businesses, and is the current Founder and Chairman @ Digime. In Today’s Episode You Will Learn: 1.) How Julian made his entry into the tech world? What was it that attracted him to the world of investments? 2.) Having spent years in the operations business, how has this affected Julian’s investing style? 3.) What does Julian think about part time angel investors? Does he think the most successful angels are those that are full time and why? Julian now runs Digi.me and has stopped accepting inbound investments, why is that, do he miss the angel investing aspect? 4.) How was the fundraising process for Digi.me having been an investor for several years prior, what was it like for Julian being on the other side of the table? 5.) Julian was a seed investor in Hailo back in 2011, so how did that come about, what stage was the business at, what got you excited about the offering? 6.) Talking about getting excited by companies and metrics, are there any KPI’s in particular that you like to deep dive on to determine the growth potential of a company? Any that concern you? Items Mentioned In Todays Show: Julian’s Fave Blog: AVC by Fred Wilson As always, you can learn more about SyndicateRoom here: www.syndicateroom.com and see Julian's latest tweets here: www.twitter.com/rangerj