Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 15, 2013

Every entrepreneur needs help and support along the way, from developing the initial idea, to selling off the successful business (exit strategy). The incubator organization can help you find them, or show you how to apply for a government grant. Don’t waste your resources on the wrong ones. Funding or rollout stage.

Incubator 256

Incubator Entrepreneur Exit Strategy Institutional Investors 256

Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 4, 2014

Develop your business plan. Product development process. Unless you are bootstrapping everything, you need to have a clear plan on what networking and documents are required to get to friends and family, Angel investors, and institutional investors. Even the government is watching to see where you fit.

Startup 268

Startup Institutional Investors Angel Investor Bootstrapping 268

David Teten

FEBRUARY 16, 2013

The Southern States Business Coalition (SSBC) is bringing some of the country’s leading Plan Sponsors, Institutional Investors, and Alternative Investment professionals to Birmingham, AL, March 3-6 for the Southern States Alternative Investment Symposium 2013.

Alabama 114

Alabama Virginia Arizona Arkansas 114

Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 27, 2016

Every entrepreneur needs help and support along the way, from developing the initial idea, to selling off the successful business (exit strategy). The incubator organization can help you find them, or show you how to apply for a government grant. Don’t waste your resources on the wrong ones. Funding or rollout stage.

Incubator 120

Incubator Startup Exit Strategy Institutional Investors 120

This is going to be BIG.

OCTOBER 12, 2020

When the endowment saw how much I had raised up until that point, which wasn’t helped by the fact that most of my other investors were individuals who couldn’t write a third check, they decide to add a new stipulation—a minimum close. It was a frustrating development because I was counting on them to be a part of the first close.

LP 136

LP Technical Review Software Review Valuation 136

Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 16, 2012

Every entrepreneur needs help and support along the way, from developing the initial idea, to selling off the successful business (exit strategy). The incubator organization can help you find them, or show you how to apply for a government grant. Don’t waste your resources on the wrong ones. Funding or rollout stage.

Incubator 237

Incubator Startup Exit Strategy Institutional Investors 237

Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 31, 2013

Develop your business plan. Product development process. Unless you are bootstrapping everything, you need to have a clear plan on what networking and documents are required to get to friends and family, Angel investors, and institutional investors. Even the government is watching to see where you fit.

Institutional Investors 230

Institutional Investors Angel Investor Bootstrapping Database 230

Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 13, 2011

Every entrepreneur needs help and support along the way, from developing the initial idea, to selling off the successful business (exit strategy). The incubator organization can help you find them, or show you how to apply for a government grant. Don’t waste your resources on the wrong ones. Funding or rollout stage.

Incubator 230

Incubator Startup Exit Strategy Institutional Investors 230

thebarefootvc

MAY 6, 2020

I’ve often faced questions from institutional investors who considered Bitcoin a passing fad and too volatile for any serious consideration. In the past month however, I have fielded an increasingly number of inquiries from investors in more developed countries who want to enter the sector.

Zimbabwe 59

Zimbabwe Venezuela Argentina Institutional Investors 59

YoungUpstarts

JUNE 28, 2012

Regardless of how the environment is viewed in the context of your firm’s ongoing work, its leaders should establish or direct the development of a company-wide environmental, sustainability, or social responsibility policy. The absence of a comprehensive, coherent policy has hindered the development of many well-intentioned initiatives.

Green 154

Green Institutional Investors Employee Hosting 154

ithacaVC

AUGUST 10, 2011

If the company has no institutional investors, then I think fully appropriate for the founders to concede to the request (which is inevitable) and give the personal guaranty. They invest on the strength of the venture investors and the fact that the venture investors have a vested interest in the success of the company.

Founder 69

Founder SBA Silicon Valley Vesting 69

VC Cafe

FEBRUARY 6, 2011

My key takeaways from talking to roughly 40 institutional investors in the valley about investing to an European startup are: Traction cures all ills. If you can really demonstrate up and to the right path and consistently deliver on your promises, the funding will find you. Read Venture Hacks ( [link] ).

Silicon Valley 104

Silicon Valley Startup Seed Stage Delaware 104

Pascal's View

MARCH 9, 2010

This is the second in our series of ten frequently asked questions from investors in venture capital partnerships. To get to the core of your question, providing passive institutional investors with more financial information about illiquid securities isn’t going to make them more liquid.

Government 31

Government Private Equity Institutional Investors Venture Capital 31

Steve Blank

OCTOBER 26, 2009

These technology startups had no risk capital – just customers/purchase orders from government/military/intelligence agencies. ARD was almost exclusively focused on the East Coast ARD proved that institutional investors, not just family money had an appetite for investing into venture capital firms.

Silicon Valley 159

Silicon Valley Securities and Exchange Commission Venture Capital RSS 159

abovethecrowd.com

JUNE 2, 2021

On March 26, SoFi announced that “it will be offering its members (at least those with $3K in their account) the ability to invest in IPOs for companies going public, an investment opportunity that has traditionally been reserved for large institutional investors or ultra-high-net-worth individuals.” I don’t think so.

IPO 82

IPO Customer Matching Silicon Valley 82

VC Cafe

JUNE 19, 2020

“This is part of a process taking place in the world in the past decade,” writes TechForGood CEO Omri Boral, “in which the approach of organizations, investors and countries towards social and environmental issues is changing from seeing them as a problem to becoming an opportunity.”.

Venture Capital 174

Venture Capital Global South Africa 174