If you’ve been on Twitter, or if you’ve been following Venture Hype on Twitter, you should’ve heard about The Perfect Pitch Competition with Sir Richard Branson. We’d been tweeting frantically about the competition and so did you. More than 1,000 entrepreneurs from all 50 states, plus an additional 8 countries, entered the contest for an [...]
Entrepreneurs might have a great idea but can’t always get it in front of the right people with the right money. On the other side of the equation, angel investors like you long to hear good pitches of great ideas that fit within your narrow scope or specialty. PerfectBusiness.com (which bills itself as “the path [...]
Who’s cooler, the old-fashioned adventure capitalists, or today’s lot? In the old days, adventure capitalists were rich investors who funded adventures. King Ferdinand and Queen Isabella were perhaps the greatest adventure capitalists of their time, of all time. They funded Christopher Columbus‘ remarkable adventure of 1492. Supposedly, Columbus was on his way to Asia via a [...]