Small firms need an experienced, business professional to guide business owners through rough spots during all phases of growth. Going it alone is tantamount to task overload, frustration and perhaps burn out.
One of the reasons businesses are able to scale up, and are attractive to providers of capital, is the strength of the management team and engagement of appropriate business consultants. In a recent survey of venture capital firms, they were asked to rank five important factors that influence their decision to invest with 5 being the highest rank you could award a factor, 1 being the lowest.
These factors were: (a) quality of management; (b) size of the company’s market; (c) proprietary, uniqueness or brand strength of the company's product; (d) return on investment; and (e) company's potential for growth. The table below shows the percentage of respondents that awarded "5" to a factor.
Management 52%
Return on investment ROI 42%
Market Size 27%
Growth 25%
Uniqueness 19%
Business investment talk show is a segment of Points of View. The program provides information on start up and early stage companies from a CEO and investor perspective.
Guests on the Points of View program were Micky Thompson, CEO, Post.Bid.Ship and Jim Goulka, Arizona Technology Investment Forum. Conversation centered on earth shaking start-up companies and the Angel Investment community.
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ATIF
Organizations like Arizona Technology Investor Forum would relish the proliferation of startups and emerging companies. They know in order to accelerate them, funding is required. To this end, ATIF would play an integral part since they are comprised of serious angel and private equity investors. They are experienced executives and serial entrepreneurs. Further, members have close relationships with local entrepreneurial organizations, venture capital firms, and local investment banking institutions. For more information about Arizona Technology Investment Fourm, click on ATIF.
Post.Bid.Ship
A team of experienced technology and transportation professionals founded Post.Bid.Ship. to alleviate inefficiencies in today’s freight transportation marketplace. Post.Bid.Ship. seeks to aid both sides of the commercial transportation market – shippers of commercial goods and the transportation providers who haul freight. For more information about the company Post.Bid.Ship,click on PostBidShip.
SyCara
At SyCara, they develop workflow management, search engine optimization (SEO) tools for digital marketers. SyCara, for the first time, gives SEO professionals one platform by which they can accomplish workflow management, monitoring and reporting.
Their mission is to help SEO professionals achieve a higher level of efficiency and ROI by using prioritized, actionable plans.
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Tallwave
Tallwave's two divisions (venture acceleration & venture management) work synergistically to drive measurable success for their partners.
Tallwave Consulting draws upon the more than five decades of experience of their leading executives to provide real solutions to our partner businesses ranging from entrepreneurs to Fortune 1000 companies, both nationally and globally, for venture acceleration.
As for venture management, Tallwave invests time, expertise and shared service resources in emerging technology companies with substantial growth potential and manageable risk.
Tallwave provides executive formation, operations set up, business planning, business development (direct & channel), product design, product marketing, project management and financial oversight for emerging companies.
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SyCara with Fionn Downhill, founder of SyCara & Dan Boberg, President, SyCara and partner of Tallwave discuss the search engine optimization platform of SyCara, and Tallwave's participation in the company to manage and accelerate the company to seed and private equity funding.
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ArmedZilla, the social-networking website rolled out November 2011.
Created by an Iraq war veteran from Arizona with seed money from Silicon Valley investors, ArmedZilla aims to become the largest online community for veterans, their families, friends and groups catering to the military.
It’s the kind of emerging, fast-track company that should populate the Airpark. With Scottsdale being home to nearly 30,000 veterans including military men and women on active duty, they’ll offer sustainable relationships and connections, and support system to this community. In the bigger picture, they’ll connect with over 24 million veterans and 2.3 million currently serving in uniform in our country.
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The Arizona Republic featured the article - Veteran's connect on new website. To read more click on the article.
On November 1, 2011, the Phoenix Business Journal featured the article - Military Support. To read more click on the article.
On March 4, 2011, the Scottsdale Republic featured the article - Now is the time to attract private capital to Airpark. To read more click on the article.
ArmedZilla and Beechtree Capital with David Johnson, CEO of ArmedZilla and George Weiss, CEO & founder of Beechtree Capital.
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