IntroductionTHE CLOSEST THING TO SLAVERY

My path to angel investing began with a piece of unsolicited advice from my favorite professor while I was in graduate school at Boston University. Harold G. Buchbinder, or “Bucky,” as he invited his students to call him, created the science communications program at Boston University.

I was just a kid from Brooklyn. I’m still not entirely sure why Bucky took an interest in me. I know he was intrigued by my organizing a dance marathon to raise money for muscular dystrophy and by how I was getting the university’s administration to support it. I certainly didn’t know the meaning of the word mentoring. But one day, Bucky asked me to stop by his office after class. “I think I need to share with you something ...

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