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Seed Capital From Angel Investors: Lewis Hower, Executive Director, University Impact Fund (Part 5)

Posted on Monday, Oct 18th

By guest authors Irina Patterson and Candice Arnold Irina: Do the partners participate in your conference calls with entrepreneurs? Lewis: It depends on the situation. Typically, if we’re working just for the entrepreneur and helping him, it’s just with the entrepreneur. If it’s working with one of the funding organizations, a lot of times the

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Seed Capital From Angel Investors: Lewis Hower, Executive Director, University Impact Fund (Part 4)

Posted on Sunday, Oct 17th

By guest authors Irina Patterson and Candice Arnold Irina: Have you made any investments already? Lewis: No, we have not made any investments, yet, out of the University Impact Fund. Irina: If an entrepreneur heard about your program and want to get in touch with you, what is the best way to reach you? Lewis:

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Seed Capital From Angel Investors: Lewis Hower, Executive Director, University Impact Fund (Part 3)

Posted on Saturday, Oct 16th

By guest authors Irina Patterson and Candice Arnold Lewis: Going forward, our model is that we will continue to have students. We are a student program and will be for as long as we’re around. We do that same type of project work but typically we will end up working more with the investment funds

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Seed Capital From Angel Investors: Lewis Hower, Executive Director, University Impact Fund (Part 2)

Posted on Friday, Oct 15th

By guest authors Irina Patterson and Candice Arnold Irina: How many employees do you have? Lewis: We have one principal; his name is Patrick Mullen. The beauty of our model is that the rest of our employees are actually university students whom we bring into our program. So, our system and structure is very similar

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Seed Capital From Angel Investors: Lewis Hower, Executive Director, University Impact Fund (Part 1)

Posted on Thursday, Oct 14th

By guest authors Irina Patterson and Candice Arnold This is the thirty-first interview in our series on financing for entrepreneurs. I am talking to Lewis Hower, executive director of University Impact Fund, which bills itself as the first student-run social impact seed financing organization for entrepreneurs that intends to deliver a return to its investors.

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