Help Colorado entrepreneurs and “Follow Colo”
How can the Colorado Entrepreneurial community help to ensure that Colorado is more than just a “flyover state” for venture capital and institutional investors?
View ArticleWhat industry is innovating 100 percent?
While some industries are slow to change and others are changing rapidly, I had the opportunity to see an industry with 100 percent innovation in action last week at the Cannabis Capital Summit hosted...
View ArticleWhy your venture capital proforma should look like a hockey stick
Investors hate to see overly optimistic proformas, just as much as they hate to see projections that don’t show sufficient returns to make the investment worthwhile. A good proforma does look like a...
View ArticleDon’t go for the ‘smart money’
Sometimes going for the “smart money” is just plain dumb.
View ArticleAngel investors and entrepreneurs need a balance of power
Venture capital investments are extremely risky, and over the years a balance of power in negotiating deals has gradually evolved that leads to fair deals for both investors and entrepreneurs.
View ArticleThe Venture Capital Business Plan
Venture capital and angel investing involves making decisions about companies with relatively little information and high degrees of uncertainty.
View ArticleRaising venture capital? Make sure your company is ready before you pitch!
The main reason companies that have been screened and approved to pitch to angel groups do not raise capital quickly is not that the company isn’t any good – it is more often because the company has...
View ArticleLooking for angel or venture capital? Go big or go home
The first "go/no-go" decision that investors make when looking at your deal may be "how big can this get?" There are a lot of great small businesses that can make good returns for their owners, but...
View ArticleZoom in, zoom out during the investor pitch
This week I saw two companies go down in flames when they turned off investors by taking the wrong perspective in answering questions.
View ArticleHow to give a great venture capital pitch: Watch lots of pitches!
In my job as Executive Director of Rockies Venture Club, I see hundreds of pitches every year. Most active angel investors will see well over a hundred pitches every year. Venture Capital fund managers...
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