Another awesome talk series for our loyal founder guests. We brought together 3 great investors to spill the beans on what they look for and how they invest. Starting with Roger King, CEO of Chiefpeople and Founder of BayAngels who is an angel investor, entrepreneur, executive search professional, and an advisor to start-ups. He’s known as the “start-up guy”. He’s been building and investing in early stage technology companies for over 20 years. He connects entrepreneurs with investors, executives, engineers, and advisors. Roger founded BayAngels in 1998. Examples of his early investments include OpenTable, Photobucket and Zoom Systems. More recent portfolio companies would include Make A Stand, CashBet, and Pixt. He currently serves as the Founder/CEO of ChiefPeople, an executive search firm focused on placing technology executives and engineers. Roger serves on the Advisory Board of Manage, Make A Stand, CashBet, and TEDx Marin.

Secondly,  Nick Yang , founding partner of Lebox Capital, talked about his time in China, how he got american companies funded in China and visa versa. Nick is a founding president of China Young Angel Investor Leader Association. Mr. Yang started the largest social network website ChinaRen.com (in 1999) and telecom SP company KongZhong (NASDAQ: KONG). At the age of 29, Nick Yang became the youngest CEO at the time of IPO. Being one of the most active angel investors in China, Mr. Yang now focuses on mobile internet, smart hardware, and media.His investment includes EHang, SlightTech and FairAir, etc. Finally Steve Hoffman, Angel Investor & Captain of Founders Space, Inc. Magazine’s top 10 Incubator List, spoke about how to launch a startup with no money! Hoffman is a founding member of the Academy of Television’s Interactive Media Group, was Chairman for the Producers Guild SF, and served on the Board of Governors for the New Media Council. Hoffman’s recent angel investments include Content Analytics, wise.io, AirPair, MeetingHero, BOXC, Red Clay, Mouth, Videopixie, CrowdCurity, Boostable, Suitey, Solano Labs, Pathful, Hipcamp, Tablelist, Mavrx and more.