The social web is drastically changing the way young companies get noticed, and getting noticed by the right person or network can mean investment, growth, and ultimately business success. If you’re not keeping up to date on innovative new ways to find funding for your business, including crowd sourcing and Internet-based campaigns, you’re missing golden [...]
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So you’ve decided to add to your team. Good for you. You’re focused on growing your business. And now that you’ve found the right candidate and sealed the deal so to speak, you may think the hard work is over. Let me assure you, the work has just begun, and it’s important you get it [...]
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Since start-up funding and growth financing for small- and medium-sized businesses has been in such short supply these past couple years, I thought posting about this CNNMoney.com / Fortune Small Business article on finding novel local investment would be a welcome change. The article, originally published earlier in September, is about owners of several types [...]
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I had a slightly disturbing talk with an entrepreneur at a smartups.org meeting last Thursday night. Smart-ups is a local group getting entrepreneurs together in the Eugene-Corvallis area in Oregon. This man will probably make it. There was nothing dumb or naive about him, and he was old enough to know better. But the underlying [...]
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This is sort of good news: Dow Jones VentureSource says venture capital investment recovered somewhat from its dismal downturn at the beginning of the year. Venture capitalists invested $5.27 billion in 595 deals during the second quarter of 2009. That’s way up from $4 billion in the first quarter, which was also the lowest quarter [...]
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What’s wrong with this idea? My answer below. First, the idea, as posted at Startup Meme: If you think your developer skills are waiting to be brought out to the world but funding stops their creation, worry no more. Consulting firm Herman Blackbook has initiated a mini fund for such developers. The funds that can sum up to [...]
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The Huffington Post confirmed Monday that Oak Investment Partners invested $25 million last week. I read it on Venture Beat: HuffPo, as it’s commonly called, is looking to build on its momentum from the presidential race. You’d expect a lot of that energy to dissipate, but early numbers suggest that traffic continued to grow in [...]
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Thanks go to Brad Feld of Ask the VC for posting about Learn VC, where Jeff Boardman is putting up a basic information site providing background for new entrepreneurs, seasoned entrepreneurs and new investors. To get started, take a look at the calculators, such as the pre- and post-money valuation. Well done.
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Even in these tough times, as you look toward starting up, it’s still way too easy to focus on “getting financed” instead of focusing on getting financed right, getting financed well or, perhaps, getting no financing at all. Amazing but true: Sometimes no financing at all is better than the wrong financing. I was at [...]
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