{"id":844,"date":"2010-07-29T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2010-07-29T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.innovationanthology.com\/import\/2018\/02\/01\/innovation-anthology-326\/"},"modified":"2018-02-25T21:30:16","modified_gmt":"2018-02-25T21:30:16","slug":"innovation-anthology-326","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.innovationanthology.com\/import\/2010\/07\/29\/innovation-anthology-326\/","title":{"rendered":"Innovation Anthology #326:"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/innovationanthology.com\/uploads\/Innovation Anthology 326.mp3\">Download MP3 Link<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\nThe venture capital industry is changing. And that should be good news for start up technology companies.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nThat\u2019s the message economist Paul Kedrosky had for people at the recent AVAC meeting in Calgary.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nKedrosky points to lower startup costs for businesses and the appearance of small venture capital funds.\n <\/p>\n<p><b><br \/>\nPAUL KEDROSKY:<\/b><em> The rise of all of  these smaller, I call them super seed or super angel funds, is fantastic for entrepreneurs because what it means is that  rather than having only one or two very large funds, where I have to convince one or two of them to give me the money I need, I can now raise it in smaller slices from a host of different people all of whom give me a 100 thousand or 200 thousand dollars.  And there\u2019s 5 of them and I raise my million dollars, or whatever I need.   In the old days, I had to raise 5 million dollars or 6 million dollars, and there were only a couple of very large funds.  And once one or two of them said no, well, that\u2019s it.  Lights out.  You  can\u2019t do anything anymore.  Now there\u2019s 25, 30, 50, 100 of these smaller funds floating around out there now.   And as a result there\u2019s so much more of a diversity in the base.    There\u2019s more places to raise the money. That\u2019s fantastic for entrepreneurs.  It just means you just that have to be able to  raise it in smaller pieces from a larger range of firms.<\/em>\n<\/p>\n<p>\nAccording to Paul Kedrosky, the trend toward smaller venture capital funds is also showing up in Canada.\n<\/p>\n<p><em><b><br \/>\nLearn more at InnovationAnthology.com<\/em>\n<\/p>\n<p>\nI\u2019M CHERYL CROUCHER <\/b>\n<\/p>\n<h2>Guest<\/h2>\n<h3> , <\/h3>\n<h4>, , , , <\/h4>\n<h2>Sponsor<\/h2>\n<h3><a href=\"\"><\/a><\/h3>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/innovationanthology.com\/uploads\/\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Program Date:<\/strong>\u00a02010-07-29<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The <b>venture capital industry<\/b> is changing. And that should be good news for start up technology companies.  That\u2019s the message economist <b>Paul Kedrosky<\/b> had for people at the recent <b>AVAC<\/b> meeting in Calgary. When explaining what&#8217;s behind the shift, Kedrosky points to lower startup costs for businesses and the appearance of <b>small venture capital funds<\/b>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":845,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33,32],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-844","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-economy","category-innovation","has-post-title","has-post-date","has-post-category","has-post-tag","has-post-comment","has-post-author",""],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.innovationanthology.com\/import\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/326paul_kedrosky.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.innovationanthology.com\/import\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/844","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.innovationanthology.com\/import\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.innovationanthology.com\/import\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.innovationanthology.com\/import\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.innovationanthology.com\/import\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=844"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.innovationanthology.com\/import\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/844\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4644,"href":"https:\/\/www.innovationanthology.com\/import\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/844\/revisions\/4644"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.innovationanthology.com\/import\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/845"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.innovationanthology.com\/import\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=844"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.innovationanthology.com\/import\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=844"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.innovationanthology.com\/import\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=844"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}