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5 Reasons You Should Watch Shark Tank Before Pitching

I hear maybe 50 pitches a year as a member of an angel investment group and a judge of MBA-level business plan contests at the University of Oregon, Rice, and University of Texas. Still, when caught having to lay down with my feet up for a full weekend (skiing accident), there I was watching Shark Tank, […]

Tim Berry , Founder , Palo Alto Software

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Your Entrepreneur World Changes When You Take Money

The naïve entrepreneur thinks he can relax, after he finally cashes the check from a professional investor, but in reality that’s when the work and the pressure starts. His first reality reset is that now, maybe for the first time, he really has a boss, or several bosses, and often very demanding ones at that. […]

Martin Zwilling , Founder and CEO , Startup Professionals

Startup Strategies: The Strategic and Financial Significance of Intellectual Property

Schooling MBAs (part I)

Yesterday I was a judge at the Northeast Regional Finals of the Venture Capital Investment Competition, featuring teams of MBAs from some pretty fancy schools. The big idea is that the MBAs form imaginary VC firms, look at real startups, and get judged on how they handle due diligence, investment structures, etc. So it’s the […]

Bob Rice , MANAGING PARTNER , Tangent Capital

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Investment Strategy for Angels

After participating in a seminar I delivered a couple of years ago, an experienced angel investor commented to me he would never write another check for $250,000 to a single startup. Instead his new strategy would begin writing checks for $25,000 to $50,000 for many companies. Rob Wiltank’s study a few years ago validated what […]

Bill Payne , Angel Investor , Frontier Angel Fund

What the Inflation Reduction Act Means for Startups

Nickel-and-Dimed to Life: Franchise Tax, Registered Agents and Filing Fees

Early stage startups understandably seek to minimize corporate overhead and devote every penny to customer development, engineering, marketing and so forth. Nevertheless, if you want or need the benefits of a business entity such as a corporation or LLC, there are some unavoidable expenses associated with their “care and feeding.” (Legal expenses are outside the […]

Antone Johnson , Founding Principal , Bottom Line Law Group

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