A company I talked to recently was using the excuse that they were fundraising quickly because they wanted to have a good showing in their SEC filing before the tech press spots their Reg D filing and outs them. I hadn’t realized that Reg D filings had become so visible but indeed they have (if [...]
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Who is fundraising now?
Posted in Uncategorized on January 20, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
Why to seek more profit
Posted in Uncategorized on January 19, 2011 | 1 Comment »
Fellow BGIer Brian Setzler posted an interesting 3 minute video by Mark Albion that sweetly illustrates the pointlessness of profit maximization as a pure goal. Here. I think Brian’s post (and Mark’s video) neatly capture the problem of the shallow nature of business. Brian also has a clear articulation of how it is a system [...]
Creative Project Funding
Posted in Uncategorized on November 26, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
The spouse pointed me to an interesting site: Kickstarter. It’s crowd-sourced project funding for creative projects: film, theatre, art, design… stuff like that. You can search by city or by project type to find projects you want to help fund. The site creators are very explicit that this is NOT an investment, the creator retains [...]
Finance and Economic Development
Posted in Uncategorized on September 26, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Andy Sack is highlighted in this weeks Puget Sound Business Journal for the work he’s doing building an entrepreneurial runway that funds and supports companies from startup to later stage, “ As the leader of TechStars Seattle (seed-stage investments), Founder’s Co-op (early-stage investments) and Revenue Loan (later-stage investments), there’s hardly an Internet deal that goes [...]
Kicking off the 2010 Proxy Voting Season
Posted in Capital Thoughts, Uncategorized on April 2, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Sister Judy Byron from the Northwest Coalition for Responsible Investment (NWCRI) came and spoke to the Seattle area SRI Happy Hour for March. NWCRI is a member of the Interfaith Center for Corporate Responsibility (ICCR) . Pam Rivers noted you can follow ICCR on Facebook and they have good posts – check it out! Sister Judy started [...]
I support Seattle’s Aggressive Panhandling Ordinance
Posted in Uncategorized on March 14, 2010 | 1 Comment »
As a Belltown resident at First and Virginia I support the pending Aggressive Panhandling Ordinance. http://www.seattle.gov/council/burgess/attachments/2010st_disorder_leg_aggressive_solicit.pdf. In reading the statue I see described the precise behaviors that I have observed, my spouse and co-workers from the Terminal Sales Building have observed, and that need to stop. This does NOT include folks standing with signs [...]
Hello world!
Posted in Uncategorized on September 23, 2005 | Leave a Comment »
The inaugural post.
