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My Angel Investing Journey - Building Relationships with Transparency and Intention

My special guest in today’s episode of If Not Now Wen is Alex Bass. Alex is a founder and investor who is obsessed with product, automation, and integration. Over a decade ago, Alex Bass founded Efficient App with the goal of helping teams find and integrate their perfect software stack.

From seeing first-hand the time savings these tools resulted in, he knew he wanted to get involved on a deeper level. What started as a healthy obsession in product feedback, evolved into a budding career in angel investing.

In July 2021, his first investment was put into Motion. Over the 12 months that followed, an additional 18 startups were added to his portfolio, all with a primary focus in efficiency B2B SaaS.

Alex is passionate about creating relationships, and he creates impact through a desire to help and provide support. Alex has a transparency and authenticity that is so refreshing. He is such an inspiration, and I know you will love this episode as much as I do.

We talk about:

  • The power of transparency to create connections and opportunities

  • Focusing on supporting and building relationships

  • How providing product feedback led to angel investing

  • Getting comfortable with the unknown

  • Alex’s unique investing strategy

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Learning An Alternative Keyboard Layout (Canary & Colemak & Dvorak)

I use as my default keyboard layout (alternative to QWERTY/Dvorak/Colemak)

History (Time & WPM)

20+ years of QWERTY (120WPM)

↳ 1 Month of Dvorak (50WPM)

↳ 1 Week of Colemak (30WPM)

↳ 1 Month of Colemak-DH (80WPM)

↳ 1 Month of Canary (80WPM)

( Test: 60 Second English 200)

Current Stats (Feb 2nd 2023—2.5 Months In):

10 Word Test on :

30 Second Test on :

Canary Keyboard Layout

Here is the default layout as-designed to be used with Angle Mod on a Row Stagger (standard) keyboard:

w l y p k z x o u ; [ ] \
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  j v d g q m h / , .

And here is a version that can be used on Ortho keyboards (you probably aren't using this type of keyboard):

w l y p b z f o u '
c r s t g m n e i a
q j v d k x h / , .

Guide For Setting It Up

Learning An Alternative Keyboard Layout (Canary & Colemak & Dvorak)
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