After Adam Winter read about a roving teleconferencing robot, he got a hunch that the $2,000 gadget might become the next big thing. So the 38-year-old technology consultant from Columbus, Ohio, sat down at his computer earlier this month, clicked a button and committed to plunk $10,000 from his bank account into the 18-month-old Silicon Valley startup that developed the robot.
via Site Unseen: More Angel Investors Look for Startups Via Internet – WSJ.com.
