Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 8, 2014

Cincinnati, like many startup communities in the US over the past 5 years, has revitalized important regions in its urban core, created accelerators, built co-working facilities, pooled together angel capital, attracted VCs, involved educational institutions and solicited the help of important corporations in a more cohesive ecosystem.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 25, 2011

This thinking is largely driven by the venture capital industry (and subsequently Wall Street) who are in search of high margin, highly scalable businesses. They feel very confident they can hit $18 – 20 million in 2012. It would not be a big stretch to image a well run service business like this making 15-25% net profit margins.

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Services Venture Capital IP Startup 332

Tech Zulu Event

FEBRUARY 3, 2012

Even investors and experienced founders are caught in the same net as recently educated graduates looking to build companies. At the same time, if the entity were to raise capital, any dropping share of the company below 50% for US share holders would disqualify the foreign investors from the E visa. Take the U.S.

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