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.

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

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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

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