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7 Ways Academic Connections Can Assist A New Venture

Startup Professionals Musings

Early-stage funding. Don’t look for formal venture capital levels of funding, but certainly early-stage Kaufmann grants, incubators, and entrepreneurship incentives are available from endowments and state funds. For example, I live near the Phoenix, Arizona area, home of Arizona State University.

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Startups Need to Leverage Their Local Universities

Startup Professionals Musings

Early-stage funding. Don’t look for formal venture capital levels of funding, but certainly early-stage Kaufmann grants, incubators, and entrepreneurship incentives are available from endowments and state funds. For example, I live in the Phoenix, Arizona area, home of Arizona State University.

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7 Paybacks an Alma Mater Can Offer an Entrepreneur

Startup Professionals Musings

Early-stage funding. Don’t look for formal venture capital levels of funding, but certainly early-stage Kaufmann grants, incubators, and entrepreneurship incentives are available from endowments and state funds. For example, I live in the Phoenix, Arizona area, home of Arizona State University.

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Seven Ways Universities Can Help All Startups

Startup Professionals Musings

Don’t look here for venture capital levels of funding, but certainly early-stage government grants, incubators, and entrepreneurship incentives are available from endowments and state funds. For example, I live in the Phoenix area, home of Arizona State University. I’m involved with their community outreach program as well.

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7 Ways it Pays to Build a Socially Conscious Startup

Startup Professionals Musings

To help socially conscious early-stage startups, I see new Accelerators, such as MAC6 , led by Scott and Kyle McIntosh in Phoenix, leading the way with mentoring and funding. Unfortunately, balancing social and environmental impact against making money for survival and investor return isn’t an easy equation.

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Smart Bear Live 7: More from AZ Disruptors

A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

And that’s really important for an early stage start-up to be able to move as fast as possible etc., Gelie: Resorts here in Phoenix. In this episode, we share three more interviews from our AZ Disruptors meeting last fall. And of course there’s the usual pros and cons right? Jason: Wow. Where do you do that?

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Our 2016 Foundry Group Fund and A Little History

Feld Thoughts

Burlington, and Phoenix.). We are early stage investors – if you’ve raised more than $3 million you are too late for us. Our investment strategy has been unchanged since we raised our first fund in 2007. We invest $5 million to $15 million in a company over its lifetime.