Roundtable Recap: September 30 – Investors Don’t Fund Broad Ideas

At today’s roundtable I had a disturbing experience. One of the entrepreneurs presented a business idea that sounded like a business-to-consumer concept, but as I peeled the onion, it turned out that the business was really a business-to-business concept. I asked why the pitch was so confusing and all over the place, to which the

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Seed Capital From Angel Investors: Raymond Chan, Tech Coast Angels (Part 2)

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Seed Capital From Angel Investors: Dick Reeves, Executive Director, Huntsville Angel Network (Part 2)

By guest authors Irina Patterson and Candice Arnold Irina: How many pitches do you receive per month, on average? Dick: In a month, I’ll hear from 12–15 capital seekers. Irina: Out of those 12–15, how many deserve a closer look? Dick: One or two. Irina: What would be your next step of engagement with them?

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By guest author Irina Patterson This is the twenty-sixth interview in our series on financing for entrepreneurs. I am talking to Raymond Chan, a member of Tech Coast Angels. TCA has over 260  members and provides funding and guidance to early-stage, high-growth companies in Southern California. Irina: Hi, Ray. Let’s start with your personal background.

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Standing Cloud is an application deployment and management platform for the cloud and can be used to build websites and webapps. The platform is built in Java and is currently deployed on Rackspace and Amazon EC2 cloud servers. Further, the company offers more than sixty open-source applications that users may test-drive or install for permanent

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