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Seed Capital From Angel Investors: Corey Silva, Assistant Manager, River Valley Investors (Part 5)
By guest authors Irina Patterson and Candice Arnold Corey: And from all the quality deals, on a weekly basis, we sit down and go all right, this deal’s from this space, who knows that?, and this deal is from this area, who would be good for that? And we target the members whom we think
Seed Capital From Angel Investors: Corey Silva, Assistant Manager, River Valley Investors (Part 4)
By guest authors Irina Patterson and Candice Arnold Irina: How do you swap deals with other angel groups? By e-mail? Corey: That was how it was done years ago, and it’s still done that way, sometimes but there’s a Web platform called AngelSoft, and that makes it really easy. There are features right inside AngelSoft,
Seed Capital From Angel Investors: Corey Silva, Assistant Manager, River Valley Investors (Part 3)
By guest authors Irina Patterson and Candice Arnold Irina: Do you have any particular industry focus? Corey: I know a lot of angel groups are focused, if not on one industry, then maybe on just two or three, because their membership pool is really drawn from those space. In Boston, that’s often the case. The
Seed Capital From Angel Investors: Corey Silva, Assistant Manager, River Valley Investors (Part 2)
By guest authors Irina Patterson and Candice Arnold Corey: That’s how it went from there, and it developed. I worked part time for my brother for a couple of years, and then I ended up moving out to western Massachusetts to work full time for him. We were doing consulting work for entrepreneurs. We learned
Seed Capital From Angel Investors: Corey Silva, Assistant Manager, River Valley Investors (Part 1)
By guest authors Irina Patterson and Candice Arnold This is the sixth interview in our series on seed financing and angel investing. Corey Silva dropped into the angel universe by chance after being a serious rock n’ roll musician in his early days; he has written over 120 original songs. As fate would have it,
Outsourcing: Persistent Systems Interview (Part 16)
By guest author Tony Scott Looking to the Future Tony: If you think about five years from now and say: “My vision of the work we will be doing and of my company five years from now is going to look like this,” what do you think you are going to look like? Anand: We
Seed Capital From Angel Investors: Randy Williams, Founder and CEO, Keiretsu Forum (Part 10)
By guest authors Irina Patterson and Candice Arnold Irina: You do track your returns internally, right? And it’s about 20%? Randy: That study was done to the end of 2007. We founded it in September 2000, so it was a seven-year study. The next study is being done right now, and that study will be
Outsourcing: Persistent Systems Interview (Part 15)
By guest author Tony Scott The ODM Model – Will It Happen for Software? Tony: Building products faster at a lower cost because you have in-depth expertise in a market segment and are componentizing part of the product development process – it’s going back to your example of Flextronics for software. Will we see ODMs
