As part of the Rice Alliance Energy and Clean Technology Venture Forum, we got to hear a panel discussion from the venture capital investment arms of several major oil and gas companies, including Mark Blackwell of Cenovus Energy Venture Group, Issam Dairanieh of BP Ventures,
I got the chance this week to represent VentureSpur at Rice University’s annual Energy and Clean Technology Venture Forum. Check it out: The VentureSpur firm was asked to participate in “VC office hours” on September 11, and yours truly acted as a judge for their forum! From the VentureSpur
Yep. That’s right. The Top 10 Investor Pitch FAILS! in 5-minutes – as presented by me, on behalf of VentureSpur at the 2013 SpringBeta conference in Oklahoma City:
I just spent three days judging the 2013 Rice Business Plan Competition at Rice University in Houston, Texas as part of the team sent from Trailblazer Capital. The RBPC is the largest and most rewarding business plan competition in the world, providing teams with more than $1.5MM in investment prizes, including this year
Sometimes, when I’m evaluating a startup for a potential investment with a group of other investors, we’ll hear an investor say afterwards, “Well, that looks great as a lifestyle business, but how is it going to scale?” What the heck are they talking about and
Check out this article: http://texasceomagazine.com/features/funding-startups-or-scale-ups/ Very interesting debate about funding start-ups versus funding scale-ups, what the differences are, what the outcomes tend to be, and where the money comes from for public-private partnerships. The article rambles a bit, but there’s a lot to learn
So, you want to “do a startup”? First big, huge, life-changing question: Should you bootstrap it, or VC it? And I’m about to say something entirely heretical. In a world where that question typically gets what I call a “religious” response – on par with
VentureSpur has announced its Finalists for 2012. These are the 10 companies that were selected from all applications to participate in the Quick Pitch process with the accelerator, to win a chance to join the first class. I can tell you, there are some very
I have co-founded a new venture accelerator and seed investment fund based in Oklahoma City. The accelerator is called VentureSpur and it runs on the same model as TechStars, yCombinator, and Tech Wildcatters. I’m very excited about this new project!
Excellent post on some of the pitfalls that entrepreneurs run into when raising funds for their startup after their A Round of investment: Want to Raise Venture Capital More Easily? Clean Up Your Own Shite First (He’s got a gross photo to kick off his