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- Impartner Appoints SaaS Thought Leader Robert Reid to Board of Directors
- Global Nitrogen Purge Systems Market Report 2020-2027 with COVID-19 Impact on Procurement & Production
- Enghouse Networks geht Partnerschaft mit Access Communications ein, um TV-Dienste der nächsten Generation in ganz Kanada zu ermöglichen
- Milwaukee Unified Emergency Operations Center Launches HealthyMKE Website - A Digital Hub for COVID-19 Vaccine and Public Health Information
- Global Salmon Market Report 2020
- Summit Hotel Properties Announces Fourth Quarter And Full Year 2020 Earnings Release Date
- Porifera Honored With Tibbetts Award
- New Sandhills Global Market Data Shows Decreasing Inventory Driving Value Increases in Heavy Machinery, Ag Equipment, and Trucks 10 Years or Older
- Pittcon 2021 Wallace H. Coulter Lecture
- Beacon Education Announces Partnership with Rochester Institute of Technology
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- Venture News from BizJournals
- Valley lenders see high demand as PPP loans open for a second round
- College endowment returns highlight competitive disadvantages for schools ravaged by Covid-19
- Report: Florida’s major metro areas among least popular for millennial homebuyers
- Wells Fargo execs Scharf, Santomassimo on much-anticipated plan to drive efficiency
- PPP roundup: Milwaukee-area lenders ready to process applications
- Wells Fargo posts another profitable quarter as bank's restructuring continues
- SBA regional executive details what to expect in this PPP round and why geography matters
- 8VC secures office space, sources say
- In the money Jan. 18: $255.75M raised by startups
- PPP fraud investigations are happening. Is your business ready?
Tag Archives: seed stage investing
The Four Seasons of Your Start-Up…Winter
If you’ve been reading along in this 4-part series of the evolution of your start-up, you may be expecting that Winter is the end of the line. You may be thinking that somehow I’m going to wrap up the series with a … Continue reading
What Erich Brenn Can Teach Us About Funding of Start-Ups
Who remembers Erich Brenn? In these blog posts, I’ve occasionally tried to understand, and explain, the business world I see by comparing it to famous people you’ve probably never heard of. We’ve previously talked about Don Ho and Jim Riggleman. And … Continue reading
Should VC’s Be More Like Lumberjacks?
According to this Small Business Trends post, only 10% of all VC investment goes into seed and early stage companies. That is up from only about 5% in the mid-2000’s, but well below the 15-25% range that existed between 1980 … Continue reading
Maryland stepping up…Follows Pennsylvania’s Time-Proven Strategy
I was somewhat disheartened to read in the Maryland Daily Record, that Maryland was moving ahead with a plan to invest $70 million in high tech start up firms. Pennsylvania has long been a leader among states in that business. … Continue reading
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Getting Seed Investors Moving…Don’t Exit at the Start
An April 11 post at VentureBeat provided some good guidance on generating a term sheet for a seed-stage investment from an angel investment. While reviewing it, I was reminded of recent stories I’ve been reading about founders demanding, and getting, part of … Continue reading
Don’t Expect Miracles in 2 Years…
TNInvestco was created in 2009 in Tennessee to invest in early stage companies. Like Pennsylvania in 1983, state leaders had the business savvy to understand that these investments pay dividends in terms of jobs, tax revenue and the, harder-to-quantify-but-just-as-important, building … Continue reading
Entrepreneurship…Highway of the Future!
I’d like to suggest a new way for governments to look at seed stage technology company funding. I’d like to suggest that state governments in particular think about funding seed stage tech companies in the same way that they … Continue reading →