I was recently selected to make one of the startup pitches at the inaugural Texas Digital Summit. You can read more at the Vigilant Aerospace blog: Vigilant Aerospace Joins Technology Innovators at 2018 Texas Digital Summit Vigilant Aerospace Joins Technology Innovators at 2018 Texas
My answer, below, to this question on Quora is one of the most popular about this topic and remains a perennial favorite of mine. What is the business and revenue model of a venture accelerator? Where does it get the money to survive? What is
Congratulations to VentureSpur II portfolio company and graduate of the VentureSpur 2013 program, OrderMyGear and CEO Kent McKeaigg, on their recent receipt of a new $35M investment to help grow the company. As mentioned in the article below, the company received an initial accelerator investment
We have continued to maintain and expand the StartupOK.com directory of resources for innovative startups in the state of Oklahoma. There was really nothing available like this when we started and we’ve had a great community response to this effort. We receive regular updates from
2017 has been primarily a passive year for JumpPhase Ventures as I continue to focus on Vigilant Aerospace. However, it has been an amazing year for our portfolio companies and past clients. Here is a quick rundown of the events of the year impacting
I was honored to give the keynote at PixlFest last week for all students in the state pursuing creative degrees in design, multi-media, engineering, software development and others. There were many insightful questions from the audience and I was asked to give the keynote three
I’ll be judging the Rice Business Plan Competition again this year. It is always a great competition and is the richest business plan competition in the world at $1.5M in prizes. If you’re interested in innovative technology, top-tier national and international startups, and having your
Exciting news from VentureSpur Fund I portfolio company, GoldFire Studios. The company has just released the GoldFire 2.0 platform and it includes many new features and functions. Congratulations to CEO James Simpson and team! From the blog post: The current incarnation of the GoldFire Network
UPDATE: Alex Muse has written a detailed post about the development and sale of the company: Idea, Team, Startup, Pivot — Our Story I’m very pleased to announce that VentureSpur Fund II portfolio company, ViewMarket, which had purchased CultureMap in April 2015 in a transaction valued at $15M, has
I’ve learned that the CCEW startup company I’ve been mentoring in 2016, DroneGames, has enabled CCEW to win a $15,000 grant from the UAS Cluster Initiative to provide incubation services to the company. You can watch their product pitch from May, 2016, here: