So I presented yesterday at Boulder Start Up Week on a panel on micro-financing. It wasn’t a huge audience, but it was certainly a hungry one.
About a third were active entrepreneurs running business and looking for additional financing for expansion and growth. Two thirds were entrepreneurs in the conceptual stage looking for financing to get businesses off the ground.
Before the panel, I thought mostly about what I might teach, or about what could I say that would be helpful to that kind of audience. While my brief presentation went well, I have to say that I came away learning much more than taught.
1) We’ve been very conservative about external financing, both equity and debt.
Listening to others there, and talking to others afterwards, I realized how much more aggressive, and in some cases effective, other entrepreneurs are in pursuing funding. Continue reading

