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10 Best Cities in the United States for Startups and Entrepreneurs (2018)

crowdSPRING Blog

1871 is home to hundreds of early stage, high growth digital startups and offers tremendous resources and programming to entrepreneurs at all stages of their startup journey. Minneapolis, MN. Chicago’s 1871, created in 2012 to support Chicago’s startup community, ranks 1st in the U.S. Sound good? We think so. Atlanta, GA.

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Our 2016 Foundry Group Fund and A Little History

Feld Thoughts

Each is roughly invested 1/3rd into companies in Colorado, 1/3rd into companies in the bay area, and 1/3rd into companies in the rest of the US (Boston, NY, Seattle, LA, Portland, Austin, Minneapolis, Washington D.C., We are early stage investors – if you’ve raised more than $3 million you are too late for us.

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Flexible VCs With Structures Between Equity and Revenue-Based Investing

David Teten

VI: Revenue-based financing: The next step for private equity and early-stage investment. David Teten , Versatile’s founder, was previously a Partner with HOF Capital and ff Venture Capital, two early-stage New York VC firms. in idea-stage and side-hustle founders using a Convertible Income Share Agreement, or CISA.

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Boomers are Taking the Plunge into Entrepreneurship. But for all the Right Reasons?

Small Business Force

As I was preparing for this visit with you, I was, as you know, we have the Entrepreneur's Network which is a series of meetings where we tee up for early-stage companies five times per year at these meetings. Laughter] And the tickets to fly to Minneapolis aren't going to get booked unless you book them.