Startup Professionals Musings
FEBRUARY 13, 2011
Here are some basic principles: Angels invest in people, more often than they invest in ideas. It boasts 595 member-managed groups and VCs, 30,203 investors, and 2,900 new company applications a month. Keiretsu Forum. Actually numbers and locations are just the beginning. Angel investors are people too.
Both Sides of the Table
JUNE 15, 2010
And during the 1980’s in California there was also a period of explosive growth of sushi restaurants (introducing Americans to a little bit more of the Japanese culture) as well as a growth in the Japanese economy that had all American companies trying to understand Japanese processes and business structure ( Kanban , Keiretsu , etc.).
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Startup Professionals Musings
FEBRUARY 10, 2010
It boasts 448 member-managed groups and VCs, 15,414 investors, and 2,400 new company applications a month. Keiretsu Forum. Since Keiretsu Forum’s founding in 2000, its members have invested over $180M in 200 companies in technology, consumer products, healthcare/life sciences, and real estate.
Both Sides of the Table
NOVEMBER 15, 2014
I was at a dinner recently in Chicago and the table discussion was about building great companies outside of Silicon Valley. It’s not the great companies you build, it’s the silent killer of those that should have been build locally and weren’t. Klout was an LA company – sold for $200 million to Lithium.
Startup Professionals Musings
MARCH 16, 2022
Here are some basic principles: Angels invest in people, more often than they invest in ideas. Keiretsu Forum. Since its founding in 2000, its members have invested over $800 million dollars in over 800 companies in technology, consumer products, healthcare/life sciences, real estate and other segments with high growth potential.
Startup Professionals Musings
JUNE 14, 2019
Here are some basic principles: Angels invest in people, more often than they invest in ideas. Keiretsu Forum. Since its founding in 2000, its members have invested over $800 million dollars in over 800 companies in technology, consumer products, healthcare/life sciences, real estate and other segments with high growth potential.
Startup Professionals Musings
FEBRUARY 24, 2014
Here are some basic principles: Angels invest in people, more often than they invest in ideas. Keiretsu Forum. Since its founding in 2000, its members have invested over $400 million in companies in technology, consumer products, healthcare/life sciences, real estate and other segments with high growth potential.
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