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An Interview With Marianne Hudson, Executive Director, Angel Capital Association (Part 4)
By guest authors Irina Patterson and Candice Arnold Irina: Could you tell us more about Kauffman’s program FastTrac? Marianne: FastTrac has a series of different courses, also taught at lots and lots of different local locations and, I believe, on the Web, on everything from starting a business to how to grow your business with
An Interview With Marianne Hudson, Executive Director, Angel Capital Association (Part 3)
By guest authors Irina Patterson and Candice Arnold Marianne: We are focused on helping angel groups grow and do things that are important to their stability and general operations. So, we’ve put together, I think, a lot of good referral services and places for good information. We have partnered with Angelsoft to make sure that
An Interview With Marianne Hudson, Executive Director, Angel Capital Association (Part 2)
By guest authors Irina Patterson and Candice Arnold Irina: How do you fund your organization’s work? Marianne: It comes from a combination of membership dues, events and sponsorships. On the ACEF side, it’s a combination of a series of seminars and workshops that we do all over the country and grants from the Kauffman Foundation,
An Interview With Marianne Hudson, Executive Director, Angel Capital Association (Part 1)
By guest authors Irina Patterson and Candice Arnold This is the fiftieth interview in our series on financing for entrepreneurs. I am talking to Marianne Hudson, executive director of the Angel Capital Association. Overland Park, Kansas-based ACA is is a non-profit trade association. It counts among its members more than 150 angel groups throughout the
Seed Capital From Angel Investors: Elizabeth Marchi, Frontier Angel Fund (Part 7)
By guest author Irina Patterson Irina: What is your biggest investment success to date? Liz: I think our biggest investment success is that none of our companies has gone broke during this economy. It’s still too uncertain in this economy and the exit market — I’m really excited about a couple of them. I don’t
Seed Capital From Angel Investors: Raymond Chan, Tech Coast Angels (Part 7)
By guest author Irina Patterson Irina: Right. Do you see any issues in the angel ecosystem? Is there anything that can be improved? Ray: I think the key thing is, investors like us have to get involved, to educate entrepreneurs. For example, Silicon Valley is the best ecosystem in the whole wide world. And for
Seed Capital from Angel Investors: Dick Reeves, Executive Director, Huntsville Angel Network (Part 1)
By guest authors Irina Patterson and Candice Arnold. This is the twenty-seventh interview in our series on financing for entrepreneurs. I am talking to Dick Reeves, executive director of Huntsville Angel Network that services entrepreneurs in and around Huntsville, Alabama, where it’s based. Irina: Hi, Dick. Why don’t we start with you telling me a
