David Teten
AUGUST 19, 2019
This structure offers some of the benefits of traditional equity VC, without some of the negatives of equity VC. I’ve been a traditional equity VC for 8 years, and I’m now researching new business models in venture capital. We have a special program if you are pre-seed and need product development.
Startup Professionals Musings
FEBRUARY 13, 2013
A grant is not an equity investment, so the entrepreneur doesn’t have to give up a stake in the company either. Typically they can be used to fund product development and commercialization that would otherwise require outside investors.
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YoungUpstarts
OCTOBER 24, 2012
A pair of wake-up-call studies by the Fournaise Marketing Group in London in 2011 and 2012 found that more than 70 percent of CEOs think that their chief marketing officers lack business credibility, lack the ability to generate acceptable growth, and lack the ability to explain how their programs will lead to increased business.
Duct Tape Marketing
APRIL 6, 2022
20:21] Where can people find out more about your programs and your book? But if you are going to have somebody who's developing a product, developing a new technology, designing, or going out into marketing and figuring out new ways to market, you really need a thinker. Those our programs tend to be.
Growthink Blog
MAY 10, 2012
When seeking equity investments, the source of capital is, for the most part, tied to the stage of capital being raised. You see, equity capital is raised in stages or rounds. Mezzanine Financing Most companies that raise equity capital and are eventually acquired or go public receive multiple rounds of financing first.
Both Sides of the Table
APRIL 28, 2010
Wildfire was one of the darlings of the fbFund incubator program. The investment will be used for product development initiatives. In the program we also talked about much debated topic of large VC’s and whether they should have seed programs. Wildfire Interactive. Investors: Google Ventures. Other News: 1.
Austin Startup
JULY 23, 2010
This explosive growth has in no small part been due to the popularity of the Ultimate Fighting Championship (or UFC) league, brought to the forefront in the past decade through the entertaining, if testosterone-heavy, Ultimate Fighter reality program on the Spike cable TV channel.
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