Helping Startups Accelerate Funding
The first step to finding a career-boosting mentor is simply admitting you need one. Do you have a mentor yet? For many young professionals, the first step to giving their careers a much-needed boost is admitting that they could use one. This isn’t always an easy step; after all, a mentor relationship may seem […]
A well-planned and developed strategy for growth can exponentially increase opportunities for an early-stage entrepreneur The typical challenges that many entrepreneurs face are the development, design, execution and scaling of their product for an increasing customer base. For the inexperienced, this can lead to grave losses in time and money. On the other hand, a […]
Atlanta’s ecosystem for early stage startups has exponentially improved in recent years. I myself came to Atlanta nearly 15 years ago looking for greener pastures when engineering talent in Silicon Valley was slim and I was fed up with inflated salaries and sky-high real estate costs. Within two months of moving to Atlanta, I had […]
Among 101 shuttered startups that recently opened up about why they failed, a bit less than half of them cited a pretty basic reason: there was little to no market need for their offering. That’s according to a new CB Insights analysis of startup “post-mortems,” 101 of which the firm had included in a well-read […]
If you’re seeking funding from angel investors, you have to know where to strike. Angel investors are most likely to back Internet, health-care and mobile technology startups in their own backyard. That’s according to data on angel deals completed in the first three months of 2014 and collected through a partnership between the Angel Resource […]
As we celebrate and commemorate our military service members this Veteran’s Day, one group of angel investors is looking to help make an even larger commitment to those who have served: They’re going to fund their startups. A group of ten veteran-led startups will pitch their ideas to a group of angel investors at Microsoft’s […]
In my time as a venture capitalist, I’ve received thousands – yes, thousands – of pitches from hopeful entrepreneurs, poised to change the world. Of those initial outreach asks, there’s a large percentage that gets immediately tossed and a whole bunch more that get nixed after our first call or meeting. For any interaction there’s […]
You might not think investors with huge piles of money would have much to worry about, but that’s increasingly the case in the competitive world of tech venture capital. There is so much money chasing so few good deals that VCs need to work hard to get the choicest opportunities. One way is by offering […]
After selling my startup, the first big “purchase” I made was an investment in another startup. I loved the idea of angel investing; I wanted to give back to the community that supported me when my startup was little more than a crazy idea. I wanted to be involved with promising startups outside of my […]
Leading a midsized business is fundamentally different than leading a small business. Startups have to be led by a person who is hands on and given a snewly-founded company’s limited resources, it can only hire as many helpers as are critical to get going. If the team does its job well, the business will grow. […]
