{"version":1,"type":"rich","provider_name":"Libsyn","provider_url":"https:\/\/www.libsyn.com","height":90,"width":600,"title":"Steve Walsh on Angel Investing and the Entrepreneurial Ecosystem","description":"It takes a lot of courage to leave a secure career to become an entrepreneur, and this week\u2019s guest did just that. His passion for investing changed the trajectory of his dreams, and led him to launch his own company in 2019. In this episode, you\u2019ll hear Steve Walsh talk about being an active angel investor and how he stays motivated in what he calls the entrepreneurial ecosystem. Born into a very traditional blue-collar, middle-class family, Steve was raised on the saying, \u201cYou never wanted for anything, but you had to work for everything.\u201d His hard work began in high school when he was doing more than three hours of homework a night on top of an hour-long commute each way. He then went on to graduate from UMass Amherst and complete two educational programs through Harvard. After years of investing, Steve looked at his portfolio and realized something was missing. The only space he wasn\u2019t investing in was alternative assets\u2014early-stage startups to be specific\u2014and thus his love for angel investing was born. As his interest in angel investing grew, so did his vision of becoming an entrepreneur. Now he spends every day in the entrepreneurial ecosystem, and he doesn\u2019t want to spend his life any other way. In fact, his biggest regret is that he didn\u2019t become an angel investor and entrepreneur earlier in life. What\u2019s the number one lesson he\u2019s learned so far? Listen to this week\u2019s episode to find out! ","author_name":"The Altogether Show with Eric Satz","author_url":"https:\/\/altogether.show\/","html":"