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Working Capital (Debt) Financing For Entrepreneurs: Heather Onstott, Director Of Small Business, LaunchCapital (Part 8)
By guest authors Irina Patterson and Candice Arnold Heather: It’s interesting, while I was up in Portland, I did meet with a couple of entrepreneurs who are interested in the venture side. So, since I was there, I just had the meeting. That happens a lot. You know, the venture guys will find something that
Working Capital (Debt) Financing For Entrepreneurs: Heather Onstott, Director Of Small Business, LaunchCapital (Part 7)
By guest authors Irina Patterson and Candice Arnold Heather: Sometimes, [I would say to entrepreneurs] “I’m interested. Here’s what I’d be willing to bite off, but here’s what I think I need to see you put in place first.” And then, probably, ten – believe it or not – never call me back, which is
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
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
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
Working Capital (Debt) Financing For Entrepreneurs: Heather Onstott, Director Of Small Business, LaunchCapital (Part 1)
By guest authors Irina Patterson and Candice Arnold This is the forty-fifth interview in our series on financing for entrepreneurs. I am talking to Heather Onstott, director of small business at LaunchCapital, a Cambridge, Massachusetts–based seed investment firm with a twist. In addition to traditional seed-stage venture funding, they also offer a non-recourse blend of
