Startups: The final frontier. This is the voyage of the economic system Free Enterprise. Its mission: to explore strange new opportunities, to seek out a new life for yourself and your family, and build new societies: to boldly go where no one has gone before. Dear Gene Roddenberry, if you’re looking down on me, please […]
As my readers know, twice a year I am a judge in the Connecticut Business Plan Competition (www.entrepreneurshipfoundation.org/contest.html), where students from business schools and undergraduate business programs throughout Connecticut compete for cash prizes and mentoring from leading business experts, in a format very similar to the popular “Shark Tank” television show. This fall’s event featured […]
In my first article on Flashfunders I described how they were meeting the needs of both startups and investors. They’re giving startups a fast and clean way to access seed money and they’re giving accredited investors an easy way to get a portion of their portfolios in startups. And, I need to mention, at no […]
“I don’t think we’re doing it better; I know we’re doing it better.” That’s the kind of confidence you always want to hear from someone who’s heading a startup and in this case the guy making the statement is Vincent Bradley, one of the co-founders of Flashfunders. The story of his company is especially interesting […]
I am pleased every year to host a program for the New York State Bar Association on “Representing the Startup Venture.” Whenever I do this program, the question inevitably arises: what is a “venture” and how does it differ from any other business startup? It’s actually quite simple. A startup business can be either: A “small […]