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Seed Capital From Angel Investors: Eric Pozzo, Fund Manager, Oregon Angel Fund (Part 5)
By guest authors Irina Patterson and Candice Arnold Eric: In our last financing, we, the Oregon Angels Fund, put in $650,000; there was another $440,000 that came in from just our investors who are within our group. That was a record but typically, one of our investments is followed by a $100,000 to $200,000 of
Seed Capital From Angel Investors: Eric Pozzo, Fund Manager, Oregon Angel Fund (Part 4)
By guest authors Irina Patterson and Candice Arnold Irina: What is your educational background? Eric: I have a bachelor’s of science from Brown University. I sold scientific instrumentation for number of years out of college, and then I went back to Dartmouth for an MBA. I graduated in 1980 and came out to work for
1Mby1M Incubation Radar 2010: Vimagino ,Bangalore,India
By guest author Hema Kalsha Vimagino creates intelligent software agents called angels, which can sense and respond to human emotions in customer interaction. These artificial agents can provide intelligent, interactive customer interaction during sales and support processes on websites. These angels have proved to be successful in converting 65% more visitors into customers than traditional
Thought Leaders In Sales 2.0: Mark Roberge, VP Of Sales, HubSpot (Part 8)
By Sramana Mitra and guest author Sudhindra Chada Sramana: More than 125% growth, fantastic. Mark, what else should I have asked you about your process that I didn’t ask? Mark: We talked a lot about the metrics. I think that is about it on process. I don’t know if you want to get into the
Seed Capital From Angel Investors: Venktesh Shukla, Chair, TiE Angels (Part 4)
By guest authors Irina Patterson and Candice Arnold Irina: In your work as an angel investor, what are your daily challenges? Venktesh: Well, there’s one company that I really like, and they have a technology which they claim is breakthrough. In concept on paper it looks great, but all the people and all the big
Seed Capital From Angel Investors: Eric Pozzo, Fund Manager, Oregon Angel Fund (Part 3)
By guest authors Irina Patterson and Candice Arnold Eric: We start each monthly meeting with an hour discussion of the 8 to 10 applicants, and everyone has a little anonymous voting machine and we vote on which two we want to present at our next meeting. Once we’ve selected the two to present – and
Seed Capital From Angel Investors: Venktesh Shukla, Chair, TiE Angels (Part 3)
By guest authors Irina Patterson and Candice Arnold Irina: Would you consider investing in a $20 million niche market? Venktesh: Yes. If it’s a $20 million market and somebody owns a decent chunk of the company and the valuation is, within two years of investing in it, let’s say, $4 million. The company gets acquired
Seed Capital From Angel Investors: Eric Pozzo, Fund Manager, Oregon Angel Fund (Part 2)
By guest authors Irina Patterson and Candice Arnold Irina: Is this, managing the fund, your full-time job? Eric: Yes, it is. And a lot of it is to facilitate the selection of companies that present and also to make sure that the due diligence gets done thoroughly and well and politely in a way that
