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- The Accelerator Conundrum
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venture capital
After You Leave, What Do VCs Say Behind Closed Doors?
By guest author Gerry Langeler from his e-book Take the Money and Run! An Insider’s Guide to Venture Capital So, now you’ve made it to a VC firm partners meeting. Do you ever wonder what REALLY happens around the venture capital partners table once you, the entrepreneur, leave the room? Well, it’s time someone told you.
How to Avoid a “No” from a Venture Capitalist
By guest author Gerry Langeler from his e-book “Take the Money and Run! An Insider’s Guide to Venture Capital” The old saying in the VC business is investors invest in three things: people, people and people. There’s more than a little truth to that. We’ve seen great teams dig themselves out of some deep holes, and weak
1Mby1M Deal Radar 2011: CapLinked, Manhattan Beach, California
My regular readers may be surprised to the see the subject of today’s 1M/1M Deal Radar. For the past three years, Deal Radar has been covering companies that have at least $1 million in annual revenue. It’s an important milestone that we take seriously. So why CapLinked, a pre-revenue company? Well, primarily because it’s a company
Seed Capital From Angel Investors: AngelList Founder Naval Ravikant (Part 1)
Some of you have read my recent post AngelList, CapLink and Financing Marketplaces, in which I publicly supported the work Naval Ravikant and others are doing to increase liquidity in the seed capital portion of the market. Following that, Naval and I decided to sit down for a more comprehensive chat. Over the next several
Business Incubator Series: An Interview With Chris Heivly, Executive Director, LaunchBox Digital (Part 4)
By guest authors Irina Patterson and Candice Arnold Chris: The board of advisors for each company enrolled will include two LaunchBox partners and two to three outsiders, who will meet every week for an hour and help to drive this company through the 12-week program. It’s really great. I sit in on every one of
Business Incubator Series: An Interview With Chris Heivly, Executive Director, LaunchBox Digital (Part 3)
By guest authors Irina Patterson and Candice Arnold Irina: Do you announce in a press release or on the Web that the next program session open, and companies start applying? Chris: That’s correct. We do some outbound marketing. We get some mentions in the technology and entrepreneurial press. We’ve run for three years now. There’s
Business Incubator Series: An Interview With Chris Heivly, Executive Director, LaunchBox Digital (Part 2)
By guest authors Irina Patterson and Candice Arnold Irina: What would be the ideal company to have in your incubation program? Chris: For the most part, first-time entrepreneurs who have a reasonably mature concept of what they want to build in a fairly large market or large market opportunity; something where the value is [so]
Business Incubator Series: An Interview With Chris Heivly, Executive Director, LaunchBox Digital (Part 1)
By guest authors Irina Patterson and Candice Arnold I am talking to Chris Heivly, executive director of LaunchBox Digital, an accelerator program for entrepreneurs based in Durham, North Carolina. The program structure and workings are similar to Y Combinator and TechStars.
