Investor Connect: JIP Strategy, Licensing, and Deal Readiness in Life Sciences
On this episode of Investor Connect, Hall Marchant welcomes Gillian Fenton of LST Strategies, who brings more than 30 years of experience in licensing intellectual property and life sciences transactions, including work with GSK, Emergent BioSolutions, and Biogen, as well as university startups, established life science companies, and investors. Gillian…
Startup Funding Espresso – Using the Four-Quadrant Slide
[audio src="https://traffic.libsyn.com/secure/angelconnect/05.using_the_four_wuadrant_dlide.mp3"][/audio]Using the Four-Quadrant Slide Hello, this is Hall T. Martin with the Startup Funding Espresso -- your daily shot of startup funding and investing. In pitching the startup, the founder shows how the business will be positioned in the market. The four-quadrant slide is one tool to show how…
Why Build a Financial Forecast
Startups should build a financial forecast for their business. Even if the future is uncertain and all the data is not known, it's still important to build one. Here are the reasons why: It validates the founder's hypothesis. A founder should have a hypothesis about the business. A financial projection…
Be Founder-Friendly To Gain More Dealflow
Founders live in the center of the startup world and thus see many companies raising funding. A startup investor will do well to tap into the knowledge of founders about other startups raising funding. An investor who treats founders well will find they are often amenable to making referrals. Here…
Founderflow vs Dealflow
Startup investors spend their day looking for quality deals. There are business plan competitions, demo days, and other formats where founders pitch. Then there's warm introductions and referrals. The quality of these deals tends to be higher. Most investors don't take time to refer a low-quality deal. Instead of looking…
