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- Instant Grocery Market Size to Grow by USD 123.85 billion | 54% of Market Growth to Originate from APAC | Technavio
- Physiotherapy Equipment Global Market Report 2022-2027: Rising Geriatric Population and Sedentary Lifestyle & Technological Advances in Physiotherapy Equipment Presents Opportunities
- Guardant Health and Adicon announce strategic partnership to offer comprehensive genomic profiling tests to accelerate development of new cancer therapies in China
- 5G-Advanced Accelerates Towards a Digital, Intelligent Future
- EW Healthcare Partners Announces Extension of TherapeuticsMD Tender Offer
- SUPERIOR GOLD FILES TECHNICAL REPORT TO SUPPORT PREVIOUSLY RELEASED MINERAL RESERVE AND RESOURCE UPDATE WHICH SAW MINERAL RESERVES INCREASE 66% AND INFERRED MINERAL RESOURCES INCREASE 29%
- Portugal Data Center Market Report 2022-2027: Increasing Cloud Connectivity will Lead to Higher Demand for High-Bandwidth Networking and Processing Infrastructure
- SHUTTERSTOCK STUDIOS ANUNCIA SU EXPANSIÓN A LA PRODUCCIÓN DE DOCUMENTALES DE LARGA Y CORTA DURACIÓN
- Uncle Bud's Hemp & CBD Debuts Exclusive Partnership with World Class Boxing Promotor, Golden Boy, at Ryan Garcia vs. Javier Fortuna on Saturday, July 16
- Extruded Snacks Market Size Worth US$ 93.9Bn by 2028 at 7.1% CAGR with Deep Dive Analysis of 18+ Countries across 5 Key Regions, 50+ Companies Scrutinized by The Insight Partners
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- Chapel Hill firm managing $5B in assets launches new fund
- Report: Puget Sound housing markets could see price declines soon
- MFS buys major stake in digital-outsourcing company
- WesBanco CEO to retire
- Clayton-based Advantage Capital outlines 'impact investment' in annual report
- Mississippi merger: Sycamore Bank acquired by BankFirst Capital Corp.
- North Dakota financial services company completes buyout of Valley community bank
- Bethesda PE firm closes its third and largest fund
- Comerica revamps retail bank, targeting small businesses, technology
- North Carolina financier claims his business partner cheated him out of millions
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
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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 →