Seed Capital From Angel Investors: Eric Pozzo, Fund Manager, Oregon Angel Fund (Part 12)

By guest authors Irina Patterson and Candice Arnold Irina: What is your advice to entrepreneurs? What could they do better? Eric: If you’re out there [working for a big company] and you know your customers well, they’re going to ask for things that the company you work for does not want to provide for some

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Seed Capital From Angel Investors: Mike Hirshland, General Partner, Polaris Ventures (Part 8)

By guest authors Irina Patterson and Candice Arnold Mike: If a company is not coalescing into something where you think it’s a very big outcome, in that case, what you want to do is think about either getting cash flow positive on the existing positive, or if there’s going to be a need for more

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Hema Kalsha

Hema Kalsha is the technical director and owner of Titanium Studios, a company focused on creative and exclusive digital media content development. In the recent past she has worked as technical architect. She is a public speaker and has participated in Microsoft webcasts and co-written technical books.

Seed Capital From Angel Investors: Eric Pozzo, Fund Manager, Oregon Angel Fund (Part 11)

By guest authors Irina Patterson and Candice Arnold Irina: So your group funded an airline company? Eric: Yes. The interesting part of the story is the business that we invested in is not doing as well as everyone thought it would do; however, the company has been able to bid for a lot of these

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Seed Capital From Angel Investors: Mike Hirshland, General Partner, Polaris Ventures (Part 7)

By guest authors Irina Patterson and Candice Arnold Irina: What are some character traits that you look for in entrepreneurs? Mike: You know, if we had to generalize, the things that most likely to get us excited, that correlate to success are extraordinary product abilities, in terms of functional expertise, and then that intangible but

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Seed Capital From Angel Investors: Mike Hirshland, General Partner, Polaris Ventures (Part 6)

By guest authors Irina Patterson and Candice Arnold Mike: For seed deals, typically we get a small amount of the ownership. In many instances, we’re less sensitive than angel investors for whom the seed is . . .  that’s when they buy shares. That’s their investment. For us, maybe we’ll invest $100,000 or $200,000 in

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Seed Capital From Angel Investors: Eric Pozzo, Fund Manager, Oregon Angel Fund (Part 10)

By guest authors Irina Patterson and Candice Arnold Eric: We’re very efficient with the way we work with our attorneys; we can typically on our side, do an investment for $20,000 to $25,000 in legal fees. A lot of the documents are fairly templated. You know, you amortize that over $1 million, it’s not a

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Seed Capital From Angel Investors: Eric Pozzo, Fund Manager, Oregon Angel Fund (Part 9)

By guest authors Irina Patterson and Candice Arnold Irina: We were talking about one of your investments, Columbia Power Technologies. Eric: It’s a pretty early stage based on how far they have to go to get to where they want to be for us. They have not finished some of the designs on the turbine,

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