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MintzEdge 101: Venture Funding for Startups – JD Davids (SmartMoney Startups)
February 27, 2018 | Podcast | By Jeremy Glaser
JD Davids of SmartMoney Startups explains how to identify and close the best venture fund for your company.
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MintzEdge Entrepreneur Perspective: Raising Angel & VC Money – C. Boro (Entrepreneur; Investor)
February 13, 2018 | Podcast | By Jeremy Glaser
In this podcast, Cliff Boro, a serial entrepreneur and investor, shares his insights and experience to help entrepreneurs best position themselves to raise money from angels and venture capitalists.
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MintzEdge 101: Getting Your Financial House in Order - Walter Tendler (Mission Ventures)
January 30, 2018 | Podcast | By Jeremy Glaser
In this podcast, Walt Tendler discusses the importance of having sophisticated financial advice when preparing your company for a financing and the challenges that entrepreneurs face when they fail to take care of the financial side of the house.
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MintzEdge 101: Why Your Management Team is so Important - Carrie Stone (cStone & Associates)
January 16, 2018 | Podcast | By Jeremy Glaser
In this podcast, Carrie Stone discusses the importance of management in the financing process and how venture capitalists assess management teams prior to making an investment decision.
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MintzTech Connect Industry News - January 2018
January 15, 2018 | Article | By Daniel DeWolf, Samuel Asher Effron
In this edition of MintzTech Connect, we discuss the benefits of a Series LLC; we highlight Simplexity, a wonderful back-office company based in San Diego; and we have included a fascinating article on cryptocurrencies which explains this new asset class that enables decentralized applications. Additionally, we highlight our new series of podcasts called From The Edge, which provides useful information for and about entrepreneurs.
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MintzTech Guest Article: Letter to Jamie Dimon and Anyone Still Struggling to Understand Cryptocurrencies
January 15, 2018 | Article
MintzTech Guest Article: Letter to Jamie Dimon and Anyone Still Struggling to Understand Cryptocurrencies
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Mintz Launches New From the Edge Podcast
January 15, 2018 | Article | By Daniel DeWolf, Samuel Asher Effron
Mintz Levin is excited to announce From the Edge, a podcast for and about entrepreneurs. In this series, Mintz attorneys who specialize in emerging companies speak with investors and entrepreneurs in the technology, biotech, and finance fields to explore the key strategies they used to build successful ventures. Featured industry leaders explain how they raised capital, built great management teams, achieved successful liquidity events, and more.
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MintzTech Innovator Profile: Simplexity
January 15, 2018 | Article | By Daniel DeWolf, Samuel Asher Effron
Simplexity Services is a San Diego, CA-based company offering back-office services for start-up entrepreneurs and for those who have closed seed or Series A financings. Simplexity helps de-risk and accelerate startups by applying systems science and solutions as building blocks for essential founder infrastructure, resulting in the business insights and deliverables which allow founders and their investors to sleep better at night.
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MintzEdge Entrepreneur Perspective: Digging Out of the Dotcom Crash - Charlie Silver (RealAge)
January 2, 2018 | Podcast | By Jeremy Glaser
In this podcast, Charlie Silver, the founder of RealAge, a big data email marketing company, discusses how he turned his company around during the dotcom crash and successfully sold it to The Hearst Corporation.
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MintzEdge Entrepreneur Perspective: Bootstrap Your Way to a Successful Exit – D. Taylor (CineForm)
December 18, 2017 | Podcast | By Jeremy Glaser
In this podcast, David Taylor, the founder of CineForm, a digital media company that was successfully sold to GoPro, discusses how he built a successful company and the many challenges he faced along the way.
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MintzEdge 101: Create a Winning Elevator Pitch and Raise VC Money – G. Kenney (Shepherd Ventures)
November 30, 2017 | Podcast | By Jeremy Glaser
Jeremy Glaser speaks with George Kenney, Founder and Managing Director of Shepherd Ventures, about the challenges of raising venture capital and how to grab the attention of venture capitalists with your pitch deck and thirty second elevator pitch.
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Company “Branding” and the Benefits of Federal Trademark Registration
November 20, 2017 | Article | By Susan Neuberger Weller
Selecting and protecting your “brand” should begin from the very moment a business is in the process of being formed, whether that business is a sole proprietorship, partnership, corporation, limited liability company or some other type of entity.
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MintzEdge 101: Running a Growing and Evolving Company - Patrick Henry (QuestFusion)
November 10, 2017 | Podcast | By Jeremy Glaser
Jeremy Glaser, Co-Chair of the Mintz Levin Emerging Companies and Venture Capital Practice, discusses key lessons for entrepreneurs running growing with companies with Patrick Henry, the CEO and Founder of QuestFusion.
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MintzEdge 101: Sourcing the Best Investors for Your Startup - JD Davids (SmartMoney Startups)
November 10, 2017 | Podcast | By Jeremy Glaser
In this Podcast, Jeremy Glaser, Co-Chair of the Mintz Levin Venture Capital and Emerging Companies Practice, discusses with JD Davids, the Founder and Managing Partner of SmartMoney Startups, practical steps that entrepreneurs can take to identify, approach and close the best investors for their companies.
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MintzEdge Perspective: Meet Mintz - Jeremy Glaser and Greg Chin (Mintz)
November 10, 2017 | Podcast | By Jeremy Glaser
Jeremy Glaser and Greg Chin give insights on what to expect on upcoming episodes of From the Edge and share some stories that explain how certain of their clients have achieved financial success and lessons learned along the way that would benefit any entrepreneur.
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MintzEdge 101: VC Pitch and Executive Summary Best Practices – M. Krenn (San Diego Venture Group)
November 10, 2017 | Podcast | By Jeremy Glaser
In this Podcast, Jeremy Glaser, speaks with Mike Krenn about how he advises entrepreneurs to identify and approach angel investors and venture capitalists and his recommended best practices for writing pitch decks and executive summaries.
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Is a Series LLC Right for Your Business?
October 19, 2017 | Alert | By Amy Burkhoff
The Series limited liability company (the “Series LLC”) is more nuanced than an ordinary limited liability company, and for the right user, it provides flexibility that will streamline administration better than other alternative entities.
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InsureTech Connect 2017 Panel Discussion: Maximizing Profits via Products and Alternative Business Model Innovation
October 9, 2017 | Article | By Heidi Lawson, Gregory Hoffnagle, Jacquelyn Burke
After being in the insurance industry for several decades in a variety of roles, I frequently get asked which insurtechs I think are going to be successful.
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MintzTech Connect Industry News - September 2017
September 15, 2017 | Article | By Daniel DeWolf, Samuel Asher Effron
Words are very powerful and the language we use often frames a discussion. For example, the term “shareholder activist” sounds like a consumer friendly person who has everyone’s best interests at heart, when in fact the term “shareholder activist” is a phrase invented to cast corporate raiders in a better light. Such semantic gamesmanship often masks the reality of a particular situation.
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MintzTech Innovator Profile: quip
September 15, 2017 | Article | By Daniel DeWolf, Samuel Asher Effron
Since its beginnings in early 2015, quip, the Brooklyn-based dental start-up co-founded by former industrial product designers Simon Enever and Bill May, has swiftly reinvented the archaic dental healthcare industry. From its superbly designed electric toothbrushes to its subscription toothbrush-head and toothpaste replacement service, and its “dental connect” digital platform for customers and dental professionals, quip has made it easier, more enjoyable, and more affordable for customers to keep their smiles bright and healthy. For these achievements, quip has received unprecedented dental industry and press coverage, including recognition as one of TIME Magazine’s 25 Best Inventions of 2016, a place on the O, The Oprah Magazine “O-List,” and a 2016 GQ Grooming Award. With such accolades and its robust social media following, quip is revolutionizing the way people around the world approach oral healthcare.
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