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Accessing Equity Capital: Practical & Legal Issues
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Is Equity Available?
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Agenda
• Sources of Capital
• Trends in Venture Capital
• Art vs. Science
• Science
• Art
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Sources of Capital
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FF&A, Angels, VCs
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Other Sources of Capital
• Customers• Suppliers• Distributors• Industry Participants• Economic Development• SBA• SBIR
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Total U.S. VC Investment
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Life Sciences VC Investment
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How Much is Coming Out of Our Region?MN, ND, SD, WI, IA, NB
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How to Attract Capital
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4 Ps of Marketing
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4 Ps
• People
• Product
• Potential
• Predictability
• Product
• Price
• Place
• Promotion
Marketing Investing
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So What Can you Change?
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Increase Chance of Success
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Network Early… Network Often..
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Passion and Enthusiasm
• Steve Schussler– Passion– Persistence– Plan
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Be Milestone Driven
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Do What You Say
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Innovation Pyramid
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Rosabeth Moss Kanter, Harvard Business School professor
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Just Another….
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Financial / Market Analysis
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Know Your Audience
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Solve Explicit Need
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Understand Implicit Needs
• Client Business Model• Change Buyer Behavior• Structural Changes• Who loses a job
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Intellectual Property
• Blue vs. Red Ocean• Advantageous Position• Value of Technology
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Communication Matters
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Perception is Reality
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Effort
“A great business person knows how to recognize insurmountable challenges
and thusly quit. An entrepreneur doesn't have time to know what quit means.”
Lief Larson
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Geology is the Study of Pressure and Time
“An ice age here, million years of mountain building
there. Geology is the study of pressure and time. That's all it
takes really, pressure, and time.”
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Rick BrimacombBrimacomb & Associates
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