Our new "Funded in Colorado" series showcases success stories of companies that recently closed a funding round. In these 15 minute episodes, founders and CEOs share their lessons learned on attracting and raising capital, provide advice to other entrepreneurs, and explain what worked (and what didn’t) in hopes of helping [...]
One of the most important factors to maintain while working in remote teams is a strong culture. The new virtual environment poses many challenges, not the least of which is keeping your team morale high. Not being together physically can stress team relationships, muddy the vision of the company, and [...]
Innosphere Ventures' "Thought Leader Speaker Series" recently featured Professor Choudhury who has been studying remote work practices such as "Work-from-Anywhere" and "All-Remote" for several years. His research spans large organizations such as the United States Patent Office and TCS, as well as startups such as Gitlab and Zapier. In this presentation, [...]
Innosphere Ventures' new "Funded in Colorado" series showcases success stories of companies that recently closed a funding round. In these 15 minute episodes, founders and CEOs will share their lessons learned on attracting and raising capital, provide advice to other entrepreneurs, and explain what worked (and what didn’t) in hopes [...]
To kick off the 2020 Innovation After Hours speaker series, attendees at the February event heard a keynote address from Samson Jagoras, Chief Strategy Officer for Madwire – a company that is one of Fort Collins’ top private employers and drove $18M to our local GDP last year. Samson discussed [...]
Blog Post: Artificial Intelligence and what Colorado can do to help these startups succeed by Tim Jones, Innosphere Program Director Over the course of supporting a cohort of startup companies utilizing artificial intelligence (AI) last summer, Innosphere saw a vibrant landscape of early stage startup companies that are aiming to [...]
Entrepreneurs on the fundraising trail will hear a polite “No” from investors more often than not, but the next most frequent response they’ll hear is: “I’m interested, but come back to me when you have a lead investor.” Efficiently finding a credible lead investor (“lead”) will be as important as anything [...]
Written by: Alan Curtis Valuing a startup for exit can be difficult for the founding team, investors, and potential acquirers. Traditional valuation methodologies like discounted cash flow can come up short and other value drivers like market timing, buyer interest, and the startup founding team’s price expectation tend to drive M&A [...]
By: Alan Curtis & Belle Raab Last week we posted a blog introducing the concept of Early Exits. The content was derived from research completed by author and exit strategy thought leader, Basil Peters. Now that you have an understanding of the prevalence of Early Exits, we want to delve [...]
Siemens predicts that by 2050, 70 % of humanity will live in urban centers. As the population of city dwellers increases, so will urban problems such as traffic congestion, pollution, and wasted energy. Coloradans have experienced these issues first hand as the second fastest growing state in the nation. As a [...]
