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Working Capital (Debt) Financing For Entrepreneurs: Heather Onstott, Director Of Small Business, LaunchCapital (Part 6)
By guest authors Irina Patterson and Candice Arnold Heather: When we hold on to an investment – and this is something that the venture capital industry is really getting its head around today – for a very long time, we really need that multiple to be very high at the exit in order to make
Seed Capital From Angel Investors: Saad Khan, Partner, CMEA Capital (Part 1)
By guest authors Irina Patterson and Candice Arnold This is the forty-sixth interview in our series on financing for entrepreneurs. I am talking to Saad Khan, partner at CMEA Capital, a San Francisco–based venture firm. His focus is seed investing in early stage tech entrepreneurs. Irina: Hi, Saad. Why don’t you briefly start with your
Working Capital (Debt) Financing For Entrepreneurs: Heather Onstott, Director Of Small Business, LaunchCapital (Part 5)
By guest authors Irina Patterson and Candice Arnold Heather: For the market size, there’s no real minimum because minimums are going to depend on whether the success of the business is based on traction and customer leads and hits or whether the success of the business is based on profitability. That affects what your minimum
Working Capital (Debt) Financing For Entrepreneurs: Heather Onstott, Director Of Small Business, LaunchCapital (Part 4)
By guest authors Irina Patterson and Candice Arnold Irina: Do you charge entrepreneurs a fee for mentoring them? Heather: No. We don’t charge for entrepreneurs to be mentored. We do struggle. Just like everyone, we have limited bandwidth, so we highly encourage people to get involved with multiple mentors, even if you only get 30
Seed Capital: Jim Jaffe, CEO, National Association Of Seed And Venture Funds (Part 4)
By guest authors Irina Patterson and Candice Arnold Irina: Where do you think entrepreneurs could acquire business skills for building and developing their companies? Jim: There are lots of organizations. I’m in the Philadelphia area, and the purpose of many organizations here, universities and incubators that run entrepreneurship courses, is to try to help people
Seed Capital: Jim Jaffe, CEO, National Association Of Seed And Venture Funds (Part 3)
By guest authors Irina Patterson and Candice Arnold Jim: There’re probably 600 or 700 federal laboratories, and as I said, their annual research budget is $150 billion. As part of that, there are a number of laws on the books that require the federal laboratories to transfer technology into the commercial, private sector. There are
Working Capital (Debt) Financing For Entrepreneurs: Heather Onstott, Director Of Small Business, LaunchCapital (Part 3)
By guest authors Irina Patterson and Candice Arnold Heather: I probably look at all three of those three C’s, character, credit, and collateral, but from a slightly different angle in that I am most concerned with making sure that that management team is the right team to bring that business to success, and that I can
Working Capital (Debt) Financing For Entrepreneurs: Heather Onstott, Director Of Small Business, LaunchCapital (Part 2)
By guest authors Irina Patterson and Candice Arnold Irina: What kind of companies do you prefer? Heather: We are industry agnostic. What that means is that we don’t really focus on a specific sector or a specific type of company. If you looked at our portfolio, you would see that we had a concentration of
