Is Operator Experience Necessary for Angels To Have with Bjorn Evers

Bjorn Evers has over 15 years of experience from positions as CEO, board member and investor across multiple online industries such as management consulting, eGaming, online identification, payments, music and dating. Bjorn is the first investor in Jumio and the original inventor of Jumio’s identification product. In addition to this Bjorn built Jumio’s sales team from the start to establish Jumio’s products as the standard for identification online and the billion-dollar business it is today. If that wasn't enough Bjorn is an early investor and board member of many successful innovative internet companies such as Betable, Skiomusic, Ever Adventure (Slotser), 7Heaven, Devcode Payments and GreenZorro. If you love the show, share the love on Twitter by clicking here: http://ctt.ec/04343 In Today's Episode You Will Learn: 1.) How did Bjorn get into investing? 2.)How important does Bjorn feel it is for angels to have prior experience in the operator industry? What would Bjorn consider his key value add to be? 3.) With regards to reviewing new business opportunities, what is entailed in Bjorn's due diligence? What metrics does Bjorn find himself really honing in on? 4.) Looking at your investment portfolio as a whole now, past and present, do you believe that your investment strategy has altered over the years? If so how and why do you think that is? 5.) Looking back over your investments do you find you have been very sector and stage specific, when it comes to investing in startups? 6.) What are Bjorn's thoughts on the syndicated model of investing? Does he like co-investing with people? 7.) When investing with people, what characteristics does Bjorn expect those people to have. 8.) Bjorn describes an investing war story, explaining what went wrong and how his approach altered as a result? Items Mentioned In Today's Show: Bjorn's Most Recent Investment: SkioMusic (https://angel.co/skio-music-1) As always, you can learn more about SyndicateRoom here: www.syndicateroom.com