Posted in Entrepreneurial Insights, Things Heading North, What's Happening At North?, tagged Entrepreneur, innovation, startup, Venture 360 Report on August 13, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
The crew at Venture 360 (a North venture…) has just teamed up with Marc and Clint over at Startup Weekend to bring their throngs of ambitious entrepreneurs some valuable insight and to support Startup Weekend in their mission to foster more innovation around the globe.
Startup Weekend is a 54 hour startup event that provides networking, [...]
Posted in Entrepreneurial Insights, Investor Insights, What's Happening At North?, tagged Entrepreneur, funding, raising capital, startup, Support, Venture Analysis on June 19, 2009 | 1 Comment »
North was recently quoted dropping some knowledge in the article, 5 Lifelines For You Startup on Entrepreneur.com.
Here’s an excerpt:
Evan Solida was stuck.
Solida, founder of Cerevellum, which sells digital rearview mirrors for bicycles, had posted his business plan on several websites promising to connect him with investors in exchange for a few hundred dollars.
Time passed. Investors never [...]
Posted in What's Happening At North?, tagged analyst, help wanted, intern, mba, venture capital on April 28, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Calling all Potential MBA Interns
North is rapidly expanding and is currently seeking smart, hard working, 1st year MBA interns as potential additions to our team of superheros. Below is a formal job description.
Early-Stage Venture Analyst – MBA Internship Position
North is seeking top MBA talent to provide support for our analyst team. Our interns will work [...]
Posted in Entrepreneurial Insights, Investor Insights, Things Heading North, What's Happening At North? on February 21, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Mobile post (please forgive the possible thumb related issues)
Risk and reward are typically tied together.
The standard formula; more risk = more reward. The clear problem with this equation is that there is a specific point where risk outweighs reward, and the chance of achieving a profitable outcome becomes statistically impossible.
This decision point is hard to [...]
Posted in Things Heading North, What's Happening At North?, tagged Oscars, Venture Analysis on February 21, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
It’s already late Friday. And many of you are feeling woefully unprepared. Why? You’re going to have to fill out a ballot for an Oscar pool in less than 48 hours and you haven’t seen 75% of the nominated films.
Have no fear, North is here. While we excel in providing early stage venture analysis, occasionally [...]
Posted in Entrepreneurial Insights, Investor Insights, What's Happening At North?, tagged Decision-Making, reading on February 13, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
From time to time my fiancee (that sounds weird…let’s go with girlfriend) signs us up to attend lectures at the LA Public Library. Some are hits, some are misses. The last lecture we attended was about the LA Taco Truck scene. Right in my wheelhouse. Unfortunately, the speakers put me in a bad food coma [...]
Posted in What's Happening At North?, tagged marketing, MSTRKRFT, music, SXSW, video on February 10, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
In tribute to the upcoming SXSW music festival (March 18-22) in Austin, TX, we thought we’d share a video from last year’s Sansa Playground event. The North team was down in Austin on behalf of SanDisk to introduce, excite, and educate music industry insiders on the new Sansa brand and their slot-enabled line of MP3 [...]
Posted in Entrepreneurial Insights, Investor Insights, Things Heading North, What's Happening At North?, tagged broken, funding, venture 360, Venture 360 Report, venture capital, Whitepaper on February 10, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
As you know, the North team is on a mission to accelerate the rate at which innovation gets created in this country; and that effort begins with being more transparent with and helpful to entrepreneurs. Our new paper called Breaking Through The Broken: The Transparent Guide To Overcoming The Inefficiencies In Early Stage Venture Capital [...]
Posted in Entrepreneurial Insights, Investor Insights, What's Happening At North?, tagged data driven, Venture 360 Report, Venture Phenome Project on February 10, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Excerpt taken from President Obama’s Inauguration Speech:
In reaffirming the greatness of our nation, we understand that greatness is never a given. It must be earned. Our journey has never been one of shortcuts or settling for less. It has not been the path for the fainthearted — for those who prefer leisure over work, or [...]
Posted in Things Heading North, What's Happening At North? on November 25, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
North was asked to parachute in and concept BIG brand ideas for Peet’s Coffee and Tea 2008-2009 marketing campaign. As Peet’s is the “official fuel” of North Venture Partners, the decision to offer up our collective brainpower for this initiative was an easy one. The focus of the assignment was to expand the audience for [...]
| M | T | W | T | F | S | S |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| « Oct | ||||||
| 1 | 2 | 3 | ||||
| 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 |
| 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | 15 | 16 | 17 |
| 18 | 19 | 20 | 21 | 22 | 23 | 24 |
| 25 | 26 | 27 | 28 | 29 | 30 | 31 |
