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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: Jim Jaffe, CEO, National Association Of Seed And Venture Funds (Part 4)
By guest authors Irina Patterson and Candice Arnold Irina: Where do you think entrepreneurs could acquire business skills for building and developing their companies? Jim: There are lots of organizations. I’m in the Philadelphia area, and the purpose of many organizations here, universities and incubators that run entrepreneurship courses, is to try to help people
Seed Capital: Jim Jaffe, CEO, National Association Of Seed And Venture Funds (Part 3)
By guest authors Irina Patterson and Candice Arnold Jim: There’re probably 600 or 700 federal laboratories, and as I said, their annual research budget is $150 billion. As part of that, there are a number of laws on the books that require the federal laboratories to transfer technology into the commercial, private sector. There are
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
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
