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Working Capital (Debt) Financing For Entrepreneurs: Heather Onstott, Director Of Small Business, LaunchCapital (Part 2)
By guest authors Irina Patterson and Candice Arnold Irina: What kind of companies do you prefer? Heather: We are industry agnostic. What that means is that we don’t really focus on a specific sector or a specific type of company. If you looked at our portfolio, you would see that we had a concentration of
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Seed Capital: Jim Jaffe, CEO, National Association Of Seed And Venture Funds (Part 2)
By guest authors Irina Patterson and Candice Arnold Jim: So, as I was saying, “the valley of death” [for a technology startup company] is the place between, roughly, the $100,000 that you can raise on your own and maybe the $2.5 million or $3 million, which is the level at which a venture capital firm
Scrappy Entrepreneurship At Its Best: Fresh Diet CEO Zalmi Duchman (Part 1)
Sramana: Zalmi, let’s start with your personal story. Where are you from? Zalmi Duchman: I was born in Brooklyn, New York, in 1980. My parents moved to Miami Beach before I turned a year old, so I pretty much grew up there. I went to an Orthodox Jewish high school in L.A. at 14. I
Working Capital (Debt) Financing For Entrepreneurs: Heather Onstott, Director Of Small Business, LaunchCapital (Part 1)
By guest authors Irina Patterson and Candice Arnold This is the forty-fifth interview in our series on financing for entrepreneurs. I am talking to Heather Onstott, director of small business at LaunchCapital, a Cambridge, Massachusetts–based seed investment firm with a twist. In addition to traditional seed-stage venture funding, they also offer a non-recourse blend of
Seed Capital: Jim Jaffe, CEO, National Association Of Seed And Venture Funds (Part 1)
By guest authors Irina Patterson and Candice Arnold This is the forty-fourth interview in our series on financing for entrepreneurs. I am talking to Jim Jaffe, the CEO of the National Association of Seed and Venture Fund (NASVF). Philadelphia, Pennsylvania–based NASVF is a global non-profit with over 600 individual members in 43 states and four
Seed Capital From Angel Investors: Brian Garrett, Co-Founder And Managing Director, Crosscut Ventures (Part 11)
By guest authors Irina Patterson and Candice Arnold Irina: What else do entrepreneurs need to understand about venture funding? Brian: There are five- or ten-year time frames before you have success, so you have to really be aligned with your investor on the vision, what you hope to accomplish, what hurdles you’re going to see
The Perfect Storm Behind Cloud Computing – Hybrid IT
By guest author Michael Proper [The biggest growth in cloud computing will be in hybrid clouds (from 13% now to 43% in three years) according to a recent study by SandHill Group in which they surveyed more than 500 IT executives. Another survey by Evans Data finds an even higher adoption rate among IT developers, suggesting that
Next 1M/1M Free Online Roundtable For Entrepreneurs On Thursday, December 9
The next free online roundtable will be held on Thursday, December 9, 2010, starting at: 11 a.m. EST/8 a.m. PST/9:30 p.m. IST. Please join us and let other entrepreneurs know. You can find more details and register here.
