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		shalmanese on Aug 22, 2012 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: First employee or co-founder? You can only angel invest (right now) if you're an accredited investor which is a non-trivial barrier for a freelancing engineer to overcome.

alexdean on Aug 22, 2012 [–]

For US or Canadian companies, you are correct. Happily in Europe we treat adults like, well, adults, and it's pretty common for non-1% people to angel invest in early stage companies. Foreign investors are welcome too - and I don't think even the SEC can stop you investing your money overseas.

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