Venture Black Supports Underrepresented Founders
“It is not just teaching a man to fish that will allow him to eat for a lifetime; in the end, it comes down to who owns the pond.” -…
Funding Trends Posts
Professional Investors Remain Wary of Crowdfunding
Crowdfunding has grown considerably over the last few years. Globally, all forms of crowdfunding in 2017 totaled a whopping $34 billion. Of this, entrepreneurs raised $2.5 billion through equity crowdfunding,…
VCs Love Mobile Health Devices and Apps
Venture Capitalists are voting with their dollars when it comes to products and applications that target the mobile segment. Fifty companies in the mobile health segment have attracted $310 million…
Common Sense Advice for Web Entrepreneurs
The New York Times recently ran an article, After Rocky Year for Start-Ups, Investors are Pickier, in which the author, Nicole Perlroth describes how funding may be getting scarcer for…
Making the Move with Mobile Apps
VCs invested $28.3 Billion in 3,267 deals in 2012. While the total invested was down by 7.5%, the number of deals was up by 7%, according to the most recent…
Development Banks Can Help Your Business
Generally speaking, development banks are publicly owned financial institutions that are established for the purpose of providing medium- and long-term capital for public or private investments in developing economies. Most…
They Just Threw Out the Rule Book for Raising Funds
If you are an entrepreneur looking for capital to launch or grow your business, life will soon get a little easier. In early April 2012, President Obama signed the JOBS Act…
Opportunities Abound in E-Health Records
The United Sates is a laggard in the adoption of electronic health records, trailing Europeans by a country mile. A recent study by Harvard’s School of Public Health found that…
Most Startups Don’t Need Investors
There is so much written these days about how to attract investors that most entrepreneurs “assume” they need funding and don’t even consider a plan for “bootstrapping,” or self-financing, their…
How Do Non-Profit Organizations Raise Money?
Angel investors and venture capitalists don’t invest in non-profits. The simple reason is that it’s impossible to make money for investors when the goal of the company is to not…