How low do you think its possible to go in terms of investing? As an experiment, lets say I decided to save up $1000 and try my hand as a venture capitalist. Do you think it could work out, or its pointless to even try because other costs, like administration time etc. would get in the way?
(Though I assume that friends and family rounds have some way around that, so maybe if you know someone that's looking for super-early investment, you could invest.)
But even so, from my limited knowledge (mostly drawn from reading stuff posted here) I think $25k is pretty much the least that people tend to invest.
10k is too small, really. It is mostly a way for me stay in the game. On one hand, startups have rejected that as an amount, wanting 25-50k. On the other hand, I have wanted to do my usual 25k and only bee able to get a 10k allocation.
The better the deal, the less I invest, paradoxically.
As jack... commented, you could invest as 'friends and family' round. I am not accredited investor. But I have made a few small investments up to 10k (I call them my pay it forward) to friends and close acquaintances with 'no pedigree' who are trying to start a business.
