This week Kathy Parks will be discussing women in Angel Investing, leadership, and the underlying data to making decisions
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****This week on Making Data Simple, we have Kathy Parks. Kathy worked at IBM and is now an owner and independent Angel Investor. Kathy started her career in publishing and then transitioned over to Kurzweil Computer Products working on reading machine for the blind. Kathy then moved to Interleaf working on publishing products, then to QA and Project Management. Kathy then moved to Rational Software and in 2003 Rational was bought by IBM.

 Show Notes2:10 - How do you go from publishing to project management?

3:15 - How did you transition to Angel Investing?

5:58 - What’s at the core

7:06 - What is Angel Investing

12:40 - Is there a formula that you use?

17:24 - How are pitches made?

18:37 - Other forms of capital

22:43 - How many investments have you made?

29:21 - What data to you use?

30:42 - Why are we not seeing the investments?

31:58 - What are the KPIs in a pitch?

33:20 - How long does the process take?

Angel Capital Association )

KJParks - Linkedin)

Angel Investing - Venture Deals)

Age of Surveillance Capitalism )

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