Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 7, 2010

Main Street Venture Fund LLC, an angel fund of about 25 private investors, was formed by Ruffolo Benson LLC in northeast Indiana with the intention of bringing together area entrepreneurs and private investors to create economic value for the region. I will share several of our group’s insights from the past two years.

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Angel Investor Entrepreneur Indiana Phoenix 208

OnlyOnce

OCTOBER 23, 2020

Now, luckily, we’ve all worked together for many years, so we have a lot of trust built up, and have a very strong operating system which includes full team daily standups. Unfortunately, it turned out visitors to NY from Colorado and Indiana, the two states we were traveling from, needed to quarantine for 10 days when they got to NY.

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Indiana Colorado Cofounder New York 71

OnlyOnce

OCTOBER 23, 2020

Now, luckily, we’ve all worked together for many years, so we have a lot of trust built up, and have a very strong operating system which includes full team daily standups. Unfortunately, it turned out visitors to NY from Colorado and Indiana, the two states we were traveling from, needed to quarantine for 10 days when they got to NY.

Indiana 48

Indiana Colorado Cofounder New York 48

online.wsj.com

SEPTEMBER 23, 2012

SIGNIFICANCE PROMINENT. --> The Venture Capital Secret: 3 Out of 4 Start-Ups Fail. An entrepreneur with a hot technology and venture-capital funding becomes a billionaire in his 20s. The National Venture Capital Association estimates that 25% to 30% of venture-backed businesses fail. NAME David Cowan.

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Venture Capital Software Review Rhode Island North Dakota 107

David Teten

JULY 30, 2013

SproutBox might accurately be placed in the Mentor category or Portfolio Operator category, but our primary value is very specifically in hands-on product development. I suppose this is part of operating the company, but we don’t consider ourselves Operators. Angel investing Portfolio Operations Venture Capital'

Portfolio 114

Portfolio Indiana Cofounder Operations 114

David Teten

JULY 30, 2013

SproutBox might accurately be placed in the Mentor category or Portfolio Operator category, but our primary value is very specifically in hands-on product development. I suppose this is part of operating the company, but we don’t consider ourselves Operators. Angel investing Portfolio Operations Venture Capital'

Portfolio 114

Portfolio Indiana Cofounder Operations 114