How long will it be before entrepreneurs realize and start treating fundraising is a sales process, not as an inalienable right?! Last week I attended my umpteenth Angel group forum. Four formal pitches. Six mini pitches. Plus a few updates from the ecosystem. Not an uncommon pattern for a gathering by an Angel group. The problem… nearly all of these presenters presented facts and figures. Slide...
Winding down the last third of Fledge, my conscious company accelerator, the inevitable topic on the mind of all the fledglings is funding. Who will fund their startups? Where can they meet these people? Given Fledge is not a typical tech accelerator, but instead a program focused on socially and environmentally conscious companies, the answer is complicated. Fundamentally, there is a lot...
We seem to be in a golden age of startups. From my nearly quarter century view as a serial entrepreneur, it certainly seems that entrepreneurship does nothing but rise year after year. Surprisingly, the U.S. Department of Labor says otherwise. According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics entrepreneurship has been declining. According to the same research, the death rate of small businesses is...
