ECorner: Which Investors Add Value
Jason Green, David Frankel and Michael Cline, the Founding Partners at Emergence Capital, Altirah Capital and Accretive Technology Partners respectively, discuss the qualities of VCs and investors who add value to the business. First, Green suggests that investors should be a sounding board. Second, Frankel argues that investors should bring experience that helps the startup avoid time consuming pitfalls. Third, Cline argues that valuable investors both act as a conscience and help connect the startup to customers. Finally, Green suggests that entrepreneurs should do reference checks on their investors to ensure they make the right partnerships
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Stanford's Entrepreneurship Corner: The Stanford Technology Ventures Program (STVP) is the entrepreneurship education and research center located within the School of Engineering at Stanford University. The outreach efforts include annual conferences, campus-wide collaboration, and dissemination of teaching content through the ECorner website. ECorner Resources are distributed under the terms of this Creative Commons License.
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ART is an arts and creative industries development agency and a leading investor in growing entrepreneurship in Auckland’s creative sector. The City Councils of Auckland and Manukau created the Arts Regional Trust Te Taumata Toi-a–iwi (ART) in 2000 to manage and grow their combined share of funds provided through the disestablishment of Auckland Regional Services Trust.
To date, ART has invested in a number of significant projects in partnership with other organisations such as the city councils of the Auckland region, universities and government agencies.
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