Creative Bootstrapping To A 350 Million Dollar Exit: Nimsoft CEO Gary Read (Part 1)

Gary Read has been the president and CEO of Nimsoft for the past six years. He is a more than twenty-year veteran of the high-tech world, with extensive expertise in monitoring and systems management software. Prior to Nimsoft, Gary was vice president of sales and marketing at RiverSoft, a provider of advanced network management products,

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Seed Capital From Angel Investors: Corey Silva, Assistant Manager, River Valley Investors (Part 8)

By guest authors Irina Patterson and Candice Arnold Irina: Do you pay attention to the total available market (TAM)? Corey: Absolutely. That’s a huge factor, the size of the market. And how accurate we think the entrepreneurs are [in calculating it]. Irina: Do you have a benchmark for what size the market should be? Corey:

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Seed Capital From Angel Investors: Corey Silva, Assistant Manager, River Valley Investors (Part 7)

By guest authors Irina Patterson and Candice Arnold Irina: What is the typical return that RVI investors seek? Corey: Like all angel groups, we’re always looking for 5 times and 10 times. We’ve had two exits so far, and both were profitable. I believe it was in the 33% area. I don’t remember the exact

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By guest authors Irina Patterson and Candice Arnold Irina: How many investments have you made in the past 12 months? Corey: Good question. I would say in the past 12 months, we’ve probably done maybe four deals, maybe five. I think there was a follow-on round with one of our portfolio companies. Irina: Do you

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Deal Radar 2010: Nautilus Environmental

Nautilus Environmental is an environmental consulting and testing firm that specializes in toxicology, biology, and ecology and integrating its understanding of those areas with chemistry and hydrology to answer questions with a science-based approach. Says founder Marilyn O’Neill, “We are very much applied scientists and work predominantly where land touches water – streams, oceans, estuaries,

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Artist As An Entrepreneur Photographer: Tom Mangelsen’s Images of Nature (Part 7)

SM: Essentially you are saying the market has now experienced an explosion of images, not all of which convey a unique essence? TM: Yes. A lot of photographers who are above average are giving away their images in order to get a credit line. One of the difficult things with wildlife photography is the proliferation

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Seed Capital From Angel Investors: Corey Silva, Assistant Manager, River Valley Investors (Part 5)

By guest authors Irina Patterson and Candice Arnold Corey: And from all the quality deals, on a weekly basis, we sit down and go all right, this deal’s from this space, who knows that?, and this deal is from this area, who would be good for that? And we target the members whom we think

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