Seed Capital From Angel Investors: M. Todd Dean, Keiretsu Forum, Northwest Chapter President (Part 5)

By guest authors Irina Patterson and Candice Arnold Irina: Do you pay attention to the total available market (TAM) for companies’ products or services? Todd: Absolutely. We’ve invested as high as $13 million in a company. That was a company where we were swinging for the fences, and we were hoping that that would be

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Seed Capital From Angel Investors: M. Todd Dean, Keiretsu Forum, Northwest Chapter President (Part 4)

By guest authors Irina Patterson and Candice Arnold Irina: What’s the typical valuation of a company? Todd: Typical valuations are about $1 million to $5 million. I would say on the high side, between $1 million and $10 million, but most of the companies we’re looking at are between that $1 million and $5 million

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Catching Up On Readings: A New Way Of Living Off The Land

The City of New York recently began financing classes on writing a business plan, marketing, and pitching that have been created for artists in an effort to help them earn a living through their art, not the day jobs that many of them have. With galleries throughout the United States, wildlife photographer Tom Mangelsen is

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Creative Bootstrapping To A 350 Million Dollar Exit: Nimsoft CEO Gary Read (Part 4)

SM: What was your solution for European companies? GR: It is very difficult for European companies to get established in the United States. The United States is such a large market, and European companies can spend such a large amount of money trying to get established without much success.

Seed Capital From Angel Investors: M. Todd Dean, Keiretsu Forum, Northwest Chapter President (Part 3)

By guest authors Irina Patterson and Candice Arnold Irina: How many deals do you receive each month, on average? Todd: Typically, about 40–70 a month for our region alone. Irina: Out of those 40–70, how many deserve a closer look? Todd: We narrow that down to the best seven to nine companies. Those seven to

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Seed Capital From Angel Investors: M. Todd Dean, Keiretsu Forum, Northwest Chapter President (Part 2)

By guest authors Irina Patterson and Candice Arnold [Todd continues his discussion of why he thinks the group’s model works.] Todd: The third thing is the amount of resources that our members are able to provide to the companies. Anybody can write a check or invest in a company and that’s one thing, but when

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Seed Capital From Angel Investors: M. Todd Dean, Keiretsu Forum, Northwest Chapter President (Part 1)

By guest authors Irina Patterson and Candice Arnold This is the seventh interview in our series on seed financing and angel investing. I am talking to M. Todd Dean, Keiretsu Forum’s Northwest Chapter president. Irina: Hi, Todd. Please tell us about yourself. Todd: I was in insurance for about ten years, and then through a

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