Richard Lane - The Promise of Age Tech

<p class="p1"><span class="s1">Angel Scale Biotech: <a href= "https://syndicate.angelinvestboston.com/en-us/the-surge-of-opportunities-in-angel-scale-biotech"> Learn More</a></span></p> <p class="p1"> </p> <p class="p1"><span class="s1">Founder, entrepreneur, and angel, Richard Lane, explains his experience investing in companies such as Alice’s Table and The Jitterbug phone.</span></p> <p class="p2"> </p> <p class="p2">Sponsored by Purdue University entrepreneurship and Peter Fasse, patent attorney at Fish and Richardson.</p> <p class="p2"> </p> <p class="p1"><span class="s1">Highlights:</span></p> <ul class="ul1"> <li class="li3"><span class="s1">Sal Daher Introduces Richard Lane</span></li> <li class="li3"><span class="s1">"... The founder is in the business of discovering new territory, terra incognita. The angels and the board members are in the business of making sure that she doesn't run aground on well-known shoals..."</span></li> <li class="li3"><span class="s1">Alice's Table</span></li> <li class="li3"><span class="s1">"... She was helping women who were very much into floral arrangements to teach in-person classes in floral arrangement, and how to make a really beautiful floral arrangement. What her business did-- basically, she helped these women to run events. The women would use those tools in their network..."</span></li> <li class="li3"><span class="s1">"... As an angel investor board member, I go in and I say, "Are you on schedule? Great. Everything's good? I don't care about that. I'll look at that later. Tell me what is keeping you up at night. What is the first stumbling block?"</span></li> <li class="li3"><span class="s1">Richard's Entrepreneurial Career</span></li> <li class="li3"><span class="s1">"... One of the driving things I had since my childhood was, what happens when you die?"</span></li> <li class="li3"><span class="s1">Telephone Companies</span></li> <li class="li3"><span class="s1">"... It's a business that didn't exist. Before that, landlines were everything. It was everything, t