Seed Capital From Angel Investors: Alan Rossiter, Vice Chairman, Springboard Capital (Part 7)

By guest authors Irina Patterson and Candice Arnold Irina: What’s the average dollar amount you invest? Alan: Normally, the average is about $500,000 that we’ll invest initially in every company. It may be a little less, maybe a little above. The largest initial investment we ever made was about $750,000. But it normally hovers around

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By guest author Tony Scott Operating Across Cultures Tony: You are working around the globe, dealing with enterprises and carriers around the globe. What are the issues that you have faced within your internal culture in terms of being able to deliver products and services on a global basis? Has that been a challenge for

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Seed Capital From Angel Investors: Alan Rossiter, Vice Chairman, Springboard Capital (Part 6)

By guest authors Irina Patterson and Candice Arnold Alan: That would be followed closely by the competitive advantage that the company has, particularly if it’s a sustainable competitive advantage, that would allow them to attack the market. The stage of the company’s development . . . we generally do not look very seriously at pre-revenue

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Can You Do It All? Eventbrite Cofounder And Mother Julia Hartz (Part 4)

SM: Is Kevin significantly older than you? JH: Ten years. I met him when I was twenty-three and he was thirty-three. It was more significant for me because it curtailed a lot of mistakes I would have made. For him, at thirty-three, he had just begun to know exactly what he wanted. Our relationship began

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