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5 1/2 Questions for Trish Costello

Trish Costello is founder and CEO of Portfolia, the leading venture investing platform designed for women. Trish founded Portfolia with a vision to activate the capital of women to invest in the companies we want in the world. Portfolia now has 13 funds and has made 92 investments in 66

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5 1/2 Questions for Mark Moeremans

Mark Moeremans serves as the Senior Vice President of Entrepreneurship and Venture Development at the Arizona Commerce Authority. An alum of Stanford’s Graduate School of Business Mark has brought his experience as a private equity operating executive to the public sector. An innovator and economic development leader, Mark oversees the

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5 1/2 Questions for David S. Rose

David S. Rose is an Inc. 500 CEO, serial entrepreneur and investor who has founded or funded over 100 pioneering companies. He has been described by Forbes as “New York’s Archangel”, by BusinessWeek as a “world conquering entrepreneur”, by Crain’s New York Business as “the father of angel investing

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Accelerators

Startups — Nailing the Funding Application

Getting Past the Judges Entrepreneurs — you’ve got a startup venture with a cool idea and a product. Now you need a little funding to get to the next level. Maybe Angel funding? Perhaps you’ll apply to an accelerator that offers some investment money. Maybe enter a funding competition? It’s not a bad

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Articles

Everything You Need to Know About Angel Investors

Connecting with the right kind of Angel can be the answer to an entrepreneur’s prayers Entrepreneurs, you know about Angels of course — but do you really know one when you see one? Venture capital is synonymous with startup funding, at least that’s what conventional wisdom and folklore tell us. The reality

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Articles

8 Simple Rules For Dating Your Advisor

Getting time and attention from experienced advisors is a rite of passage for the first-time entrepreneur. Entrepreneurial advisors provide everything from informed feedback, market validation and technical direction, to introductions that can lead to partnerships, investors and customers. Advisors are often former serial entrepreneurs themselves with well-earned battle scars from

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Entrepreneurship

What is an ICO? (Infographic)

To get new startup ideas off the ground, aspiring business owners are faced with many options for funding, including bootstrapping (self-financing) their venture, taking out a short term business loan, or tapping into the boom of cryptocurrency by launching an ICO to raise capital. An ICO gives companies the funds

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Startup Funding – ICO Roundups (Infographic)

A few years ago, crowdfunding was the latest disruption for startup funding – giving entrepreneurs new options.  Today, the most exciting innovation for startup funding are ICOs – Initial Coin Offerings.  BTxchange puts together a concise but comprehensive “round-up” – in the form of an infographic – of all the

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Funding

Startup Funding Infographic

An excellent overview of the kinds of funding available for entrepreneurs (startup funding). But this can be very misleading in a way: The “money available” and amounts invested absolutely do not reflect the likelihood of attracting funding from each source – nor do the amounts indicate how effective the funding

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Business

Bad News for Arizona Entrepreneurs?

    Ordinarily it takes an act of God to make me spill a drop of my morning coffee, but reading the news this morning nearly caused a grand-mal seizure: “Jilted Kickstarter Backer Neil Singh Is Now An Assistant Attorney General Of Arizona”   My first, second and third reaction

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