Alternative Sources of Capital: Revenue-Based Financing
The Exponential Podcast
We discuss Revenue Financing, a source of funding gaining visibility in the tech startup community. Also known as revenue-based financing, it is a type of capital provided to a young company in exchange for a percentage of future revenue.
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Alternative Source of Capital - A discussion with Pat Dillon about The SBIR and STTR programs
The Exponential Podcast
In the newest Exponential Podcast, we discuss an alternative source of capital with Pat Dillion who is responsible for the strategic direction and leadership of MNSBIR and its services to startups and small businesses in Minnesota. MNSBIR provides mentoring and coaching; training and education; to technology-based entrepreneurs and innovators looking to access SBIR/STTR funding.
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A Framework for Identifying a First Market to Attack for Pre and Early Revenue Companies
The Exponential Podcast
In today's Exponential Podcast, we will talk about what makes a good first market to attack for a startup and what are key features to look for in this first market.
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Alternative sources of capital - the patent as a funding resource
The Exponential Podcast
In this Podcast on alternative sources of capital, we discuss how most patents issued are worthless and only Investment grade patents matter and how an investment-grade patent has a defined scope that can be analyzed and valued. Moreover, there are investors that will fund the patent process if they think the patent is investment grade, and once you have an investment-grade patent you have a fundable asset.
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The MESA Growth Story
The Exponential Podcast
The MESA Organization's Growth Story: What it takes to startup and build a company designed to help startups.
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The Selling Framework for Startup Founders
The Exponential Podcast
The Selling Framework for Startup Founders is a set of seven core sales precepts designed to help founders develop a daily sales habit and guide them in their daily sales endeavors.
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The Cash Management Framework for Startups: Strategies for managing a startup's cash.
The Exponential Podcast
A cash crisis is the number two killer of startups with one out of three startup failures attributed to it. Do you know what to do cash wise to keep from crashing in a cash crisis and becoming one of these statistics? In this podcast, we'll discuss with two highly respected and season tech CFOs the Cash Management Framework and the framework’s seven critical cash management precepts developed by the MESA organization (www.mesagroup.org) and the Exponential Group (www.exponentialgrp.com).
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Exponential Podcast
The Exponential Podcast
The podcast where we discuss all things related to startups.
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In this edition of the Exponential Podcast, we’ll hear that story, the growth story of the MESA Group, a firm founded in the middle of the great recession to help nurture and grow software startups in Minnesota and do so at a time when the Minnesota software industry was losing its vibrancy as well as its impact on the national stage.
Joining us to tell that story are two talented business pros and long-time startup mentors, Jim Moar and Kevin Spanbauer two of the founding members of the Minnesota emerging software advisory group, or Mesa for short. MESA ( www.mesagroup.org )is a non-profit startup accelerator and mentoring organization PROVIDING PRO-BONO MENTORING SERVICES TO THE MINNESOTA SOFTWARE COMMUNITY and has mentored and helped accelerate the growth of 60 companies in the last 10 years. Produced by the Exponential Group www.exponentialgrp.com