>How much would you have invested Only what I could have afforded to lose. Around $5k. Not a lot of money (maybe even too small an amount to overcome the fri

>How much would you have invested Only what I could have afforded to lose. Around $5k. Not a lot of money (maybe even too small an amount to overcome the friction of traditional early-stage fundraising), but I would have gotten a much better RoI than my indexed stock-market fund got. >and how well would you have done had the start-ups went belly up? Well clearly I would have done poorly in that case. But that is why I don't invest more than I can afford to lose in risky investments.