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Halle Tecco
Personal blog · halletecco.com/blogstartupsbusiness
Halle Tecco's personal blog at halletecco.com covers startups and business. Since 2023, 4 different Hacker News readers have linked it 5 times. It is still writing: the last post was on 2025-11-08, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (3) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
Comments link Halle Tecco's posts on angel investing, including a series on why she stopped angel investing and on angel investors losing out to later funding rounds, such as pro-rata rights being disregarded.
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What Hacker News says?
Read the other article in the series that has more depth on this: https://www.halletecco.com/blog/angel-investing-part-iii#:~:...
Comment linking /blog/angel-investing-part-iii
on “Why I stopped angel investing after 15 years, and what I'm doing instead”Submitted On Being a Startup Advisor as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSame author talks about Angel investors getting screwed by later rounds. Here’s an example of a portfolio company that not only converted angel investor ownership to common stock, but also drastically decreased the number of shares. I started asking for pro-rata side letters in 2017. But I recently found out (the hard way) that it’s common for follow-on investors to completely disregard any pro-rata rights of angel…
Comment linking /blog/angel-investing-part-iii
on “Why I stopped angel investing after 15 years, and what I'm doing instead”Submitted Angel Investing: Was it Worth it? as a story · 1 points
HN discussionIt's definitely not free. Someone is paying for it: the government, the taxpayer, etc. On a person by person basis, you can call it free because that individual doesn't pay, but that's just because they're making their neighbors pay for them. I accept the US does pay more, but the original question I had was confined to how individuals are finding themselves in 5 to 6 figures of medical debt, given a 9K OOP maximum.…
Comment linking /blog/why-americans-are-unhealthy
on “I got a remote job for a EU company, I'd find it hard to go back to a US-based”