In the last couple of years, I’ve made a number of investments through AngelList (I’m number 3 on the Houston Investors leaderboard).
Early on, there was a deal that I wanted to invest in that I missed out on because I didn’t see the email in time.
So I hacked a simple “notifications” mechanism:
Setup up a gmail filter to forward all emails from “[email protected]” to my cell phone as a text message.
For your carriers email to SMS gateway, see this blog post.
I’d like to know more about AngelList – I’d wanted to get in on Runkeeper real early on but was ignored and that’s the extent of my startup investing. How about I make all the same moves you do. But with smaller figures. 😉