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Crowdfunding Startups: Opportunities and Bottlenecks

Posted on Wednesday, Apr 9th

There has been a bit of action for a while now in the crowdfunding world, and certain startups have been able to get themselves off the ground using the Kickstarter / Indiegogo style sites. By and large, these types of financings have gone to companies that are building physical products, digital games, etc. Fundings have

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Thought Leaders in Cloud Computing: Chris Lauwers, CTO of Avistar (Part 7)

Posted on Sunday, Dec 25th

SM: Let’s switch to entrepreneurial opportunities. Give me some ideas about interesting collaboration applications that are open areas that could be interesting businesses to build today, given today’s landscape. CL: Sure. I there’s still a lot of opportunities around better unification of the user experience, especially as it relates to data conferencing and Web conferencing.

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Business Incubator Series: An Interview With Chris Heivly, Executive Director, LaunchBox Digital (Part 6)

Posted on Monday, Feb 21st

By guest authors Irina Patterson and Candice Arnold Irina: Would you talk more about warrants? Chris: The concept here is that, if we think one of the companies – or two of the companies – has a lot of promise, we could put an additional $250,000 into that company and really help move them into

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Business Incubator Series: An Interview With Chris Heivly, Executive Director, LaunchBox Digital (Part 5)

Posted on Sunday, Feb 20th

By guest authors Irina Patterson and Candice Arnold Irina: Do you compensate mentors who come in to help your entrepreneurs? Chris: They’re all volunteers. Irina: What are your metrics of success at LaunchBox? Chris: There’re two measuring sticks today. The ultimate measuring stick, as a venture fund, is a return on investment to our investors.

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