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An Interview With Marianne Hudson, Executive Director, Angel Capital Association (Part 1)

Posted on Friday, Jan 14th

By guest authors Irina Patterson and Candice Arnold This is the fiftieth interview in our series on financing for entrepreneurs. I am talking to Marianne Hudson, executive director of the Angel Capital Association. Overland Park, Kansas-based ACA is is a non-profit trade association. It counts among its members more than 150 angel groups throughout the

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An Interview With David Monkman, President And CEO, National Business Incubation Association (Part 4)

Posted on Tuesday, Jan 11th

By guest authors Irina Patterson and Candice Arnold Irina: How else do you work with your partners? David: Like any trade association, we depend on partners to help sponsor NBIA and our members. Typically, what we do is we have a level-based sponsorship model. For certain advertising rates, we will promote a partner’s product to

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Reconnecting with Economics

Posted on Sunday, Mar 1st

I haven’t spent as much time thinking about economics since college, when my second major was the subject on every mind these days. I have dedicated the last 15 years primarily to my first major, computer science, and my first love, entrepreneurship. But that has changed in the last six months. I was invited by Tim

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Angel Investing: The Impact of Participation

Posted on Sunday, Dec 9th

Laura Roden drew my attention yesterday at a meeting of French delegates at Stanford to a Kauffman Foundation study on Angel investing. In most countries that are attempting to put an entrepreneurial ecosystem in place, Angels are an important piece of the equation. We have discussed this in detail in the context of India. Here

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