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Seed Capital From Angel Investors: Jason Stoffer, Principal at Maveron (Part 4)
By guest authors Irina Patterson and Candice Arnold Irina: Are there any other character traits besides leadership that you think are important for entrepreneurs? Jason: I don’t know how to put it, but a nose for making money. I guess what I love is a quantitative orientation with brand sensibility on top of it. It’s
Seed Capital From Angel Investors: Jason Stoffer, Principal at Maveron (Part 3)
By guest authors Irina Patterson and Candice Arnold Jason: For the seed investment, there’s a sliding scale in that the better we think the entrepreneur is, the less validation we need in terms of user traction and business model traction. In other words, for us to back a PowerPoint, we have to think the person
Seed Capital From Angel Investors: Jason Stoffer, Principal at Maveron (Part 2)
By guest authors Irina Patterson and Candice Arnold Irina: How many entrepreneurs did you actually incubate? Jason: In the past 18 months, we’ve funded two PowerPoint presentations, roughly, where there was a great entrepreneur with an idea, but that was it. That’s a pace we’re comfortable with. We might accelerate. Irina: So, they came in
Seed Capital From Angel Investors: Jason Stoffer, Principal at Maveron (Part 1)
By guest authors Irina Patterson and Candice Arnold This is the fifty-first interview in our series on financing for entrepreneurs. I am talking to Jason Stoffer, principal at Maveron, a venture fund founded in 1998 by Howard Schultz, the founder and CEO of Starbucks, and Dan Levitan, the banker who took Starbucks public in 1991.
Seed Capital From Angel Investors: Brian Cohen, Vice Chairman, New York Angels (Part 9)
By guest authors Irina Patterson and Candice Arnold Irina: What other opportunities do you offer for university students? Brian: I wanted to have more collaboration with students, bright students, MBA students – preferably in these cases. So, I created the Future Angels. Now, every meeting, every month, we have the top schools in New York
Seed Capital From Angel Investors: Brian Cohen, Vice Chairman, New York Angels (Part 8)
By guest authors Irina Patterson and Candice Arnold Irina: What can angel groups do better? Brian: I think there are a variety of things that angel groups can do better. They could – I would say, most important – make it clear to the entrepreneur what their ability is to actually fund him or her.
Seed Capital From Angel Investors: Brian Cohen, Vice Chairman, New York Angels (Part 7)
By guest authors Irina Patterson and Candice Arnold Irina: How do you feel about entrepreneurs who drop out of school to build their companies? Brian: I think, for the most part, entrepreneurs have to be educated. There’s no turning away from the fact that a good education represents curiosity and a desire for personal advancement.
Seed Capital From Angel Investors: Brian Cohen, Vice Chairman, New York Angels (Part 6)
By guest authors Irina Patterson and Candice Arnold Brian: They say in the angel business, the real problem companies are the ones that keep existing. They don’t go up; they don’t go down. They just stay in place. That’s why it’s so important to look for companies that do have the opportunity for scalability. But
