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Early-stage Regional Venture Funds–part 2 of 3 of Bigger in Bend

Steve Blank

Few entrepreneurs find this scalable and repeatable business model because it’s not easy. Startups still need capital to scale once they find good product-market fit and a repeatable-scalable business model.). Late stage large regionally based funds that invest in late stage or mezzanine deals.

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Think Your Start-up Is Venture Worthy? Think Again.

techcrunch.com

Researchers polled experts in lending, mezzanine capital, private equity, venture capital and private businesses themselves. And investors said they intend to invest more in cleantech than software going forward. Those categories represent roughly 84% of all portfolio companies. A lot of the stats weren’t surprising.