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Angel Capital
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
An Interview With David Monkman, President And CEO, National Business Incubation Association (Part 4)
By guest authors Irina Patterson and Candice Arnold Irina: How else do you work with your partners? David: Like any trade association, we depend on partners to help sponsor NBIA and our members. Typically, what we do is we have a level-based sponsorship model. For certain advertising rates, we will promote a partner’s product to
An Interview With David Monkman, President And CEO, National Business Incubation Association (Part 3)
By guest authors Irina Patterson and Candice Arnold Irina: What else is important for a vibrant entrepreneurial ecosystem? David: The corporations are an important ingredient. They reflect potential demand for the products and services produced by these entrepreneurs. So, making sure they understand the participation expectations is important. That’s one thing we need. Another is
An Interview With David Monkman, President And CEO, National Business Incubation Association (Part 2)
By guest authors Irina Patterson and Candice Arnold Irina: What is NBIA? Give us a brief overview. David: NBIA is a trade association that services and works with business incubation programs around the world. We are a 25-year-old organization that has about 2,000 individual members, representing about 1,000 organizations in 65 countries.
An Interview With David Monkman, President And CEO, National Business Incubation Association (Part 1)
By guest authors Irina Patterson and Candice Arnold This is the forty-ninth interview in our series on financing for entrepreneurs. I am talking to David Monkman, president and CEO of the National Business Incubation Association. Athens, Ohio–based NBIA is a trade association that services business incubation programs around the world. Founded in 1985, this non-profit
