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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
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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Creative Bootstrapping To A 350 Million Dollar Exit: Nimsoft CEO Gary Read (Part 3)
SM: So you were able to build a portfolio of skills by working as many different types of positions as you could? GR: Yes. By 1997 I had worked for a couple of different companies and had learned how to do sales, marketing, and manage channel partners. I already had the technical and engineering aspects.
Invictus
Just watched the movie and loved the poem: Invictus. If you haven’t seen it, I strongly recommend it. It’s a really inspiring story of how Nelson Mandela used rugby to bring South Africa together as a nation. It was particularly moving to watch as World Cup fever is starting to catch on. Meanwhile, here is
Seed Capital From Angel Investors: Corey Silva, Assistant Manager, River Valley Investors (Part 13)
By guest authors Irina Patterson and Candice Arnold Irina: What about the angel-backed companies, what can they do to improve their chances of success? Corey: Reach out and get some of the coaching that you were just talking about [I was talking about 1M1M initiative] I’ve heard of other groups that do similar things, so
Seed Capital From Angel Investors: Corey Silva, Assistant Manager, River Valley Investors (Part 12)
By guest authors Irina Patterson and Candice Arnold Corey: I think where you can get into some trouble is if you have too many of the ride-along types in the group, too many who are there more for the social aspect and don’t really have the time to put in. If you have too many
