A good read from Forbes.com, written by former VXG client Mitch Free. -Chris Mangum 4/22/2013 @ 4:18PM | Forbes.com Entrepreneurs: If You Love Your Family, Don’t Let Them Invest in Your Startup When an entrepreneur is starting a new business they usually do not have the cash to fund the startup purely by themselves and will […]
New Orleans is among the top cities where jobs are shifting closer to downtown, study finds The area around South Rampart Street and Poydras Street in the Central Business District of New Orleans. A Brookings Institution study found the city among the leading locations in the country for an increasing concentration of jobs close to […]
OpenCo Innovation Festival Expands To New York City, London, Detroit and San Francisco for 2013 Indiegogo Funding Campaign, Host Company Application Process and Early Attendee Registration Open Today SAN FRANCISCO, April 9, 2013 – Today OpenCo, a new kind of conference-as-festival where a city’s most innovative companies open their doors to the general public, […]
Resurgent New Orleans attracting seasoned entrepreneurs A welcoming business climate Chris Mangum, 45, is from Arkansas but worked in Atlanta for 20 years for BellSouth and in venture capital before moving to Monroe as an executive with the Century Link telecommunications firm. His wife, who’s from New Orleans, was recently pregnant with their first child, […]
As someone who has attended my fair share of these angel events with clients, for our own companies and as guests, here are some of the lessons learned and some thoughts about these events. Paying to Present I am typically not a fan of paying to access the organizer’s network without getting much other benefit. […]
Why Filing a Patent Just Got More Complicated For Startups (Opinion) BY SCOTT SHANE | April 17, 2013 | Entrepreneur Magazine The major provisions of the America Invents Act — which made the most substantial changes to the U.S. patent system in the last 50 years — came into effect on March 16, dramatically changing the U.S. system for protecting intellectual property. The […]