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Funding for a Business
Seed Capital From Angel Investors: Kiki Tidwell, Board Member, Northwest Energy Angels (Part 4)
By guest authors Irina Patterson and Candice Arnold Kiki: We try to direct people if we know that there’s a particular grant opening, but, generally, we wouldn’t be the best source for being the repository of all that information. Irina: What is the best way to learn about cleantech grants? Kiki: I would go to
Seed Capital From Angel Investors: Brian Garrett, Co-Founder And Managing Director, Crosscut Ventures (Part 9)
By guest authors Irina Patterson and Candice Arnold Brian: I already mentioned how inundated we are just trying to keep up with the deals we have coming to us. I would never sleep if then tried to turn around on every deal that we pass on and try to make other introductions on their behalf.
Seed Capital From Angel Investors: Kiki Tidwell, Board Member, Northwest Energy Angels (Part 3)
By guest authors Irina Patterson and Candice Arnold Irina: How long do you usually prefer to hold a company in your investment portfolio? Kiki: We’d like to hold it five years or less, but the market now is more of an eight-year hold. Depending on the product, some of these are being acquired much earlier.
Seed Capital From Angel Investors: Brian Garrett, Co-Founder And Managing Director, Crosscut Ventures (Part 8)
By guest authors Irina Patterson and Candice Arnold Irina: We talked about entrepreneurs’ past experience and how much weight it carries when they are looking for funding. Brian: It’s obviously better if you can grab, as an example, a Brian Lee, who is a co-founder of LegalZoom, and then founded Shoe Dazzle. You can look
Seed Capital From Angel Investors: Kiki Tidwell, Board Member, Northwest Energy Angels (Part 2)
By guest authors Irina Patterson and Candice Arnold Irina: How many deals have you funded since inception in 2006? Kiki: On our website, it says over $3 million in 18 companies. But this year, our total investment year to date is $926,000 in seven deals, and that’s in 11 months. Well, it’s 10 months, because
Seed Capital From Angel Investors: Brian Garrett, Co-Founder And Managing Director, Crosscut Ventures (Part 7)
By guest authors Irina Patterson and Candice Irina: What your usual round size? Brian: I would say that $500,000 to $1.5 million seems to be the magic number for seed rounds; therefore, the valuation could be as low as $1 million and as high as $4 million or $5 million for that level of dilution
Seed Capital From Angel Investors: Kiki Tidwell, Board Member, Northwest Energy Angels (Part 1)
By guest authors Irina Patterson and Candice Arnold This is the forty-third interview in our series on financing for entrepreneurs. I am talking to Kiki Tidwell, an angel investor and board member of the Northwest Energy Angels, a membership organization of private investors who are interested in funding cleantech entrepreneurs. Founded in 2006 and based
Seed Capital From Angel Investors: Brian Garrett, Co-Founder And Managing Director, Crosscut Ventures (Part 6)
By guest authors Irina Patterson and Candice Arnold Brian: If we’re rude in how we go about saying no to entrepreneurs, they’re not going to be likely to come back to us with the next idea. For all intents and purposes, we could be wrong. This current idea may be a brilliant one. It just
