Okay, we talk about this a lot but it bears repeating. No company or brand can be successful if the product or service offered isn’t first attractive to the target consumer. Then we look at four key questions for a winning product to answer; 1) Does it have the ability to scale to a large [...]
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Why Do Angels Invest?
The team at Venture 360 recently dug into the data behind $16.5M in Angel-invested capital. The results are as surprising as they are insightful. Apparently Angel investors don’t always practice what they preach… Click here to check out the report summary and get a link to the full, free, 24-page report if you want to [...]
Startup Weekend Teams Up With Venture 360
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 [...]
Most Investors Prefer Facts Over Fiction
A Venture 360 Report builds a communication bridge between investors and entrepreneurs. It’s pretty simple, by combining an analytical view of a business and a standardized report we enable more intelligent conversations. To see how a Venture 360 Report can make you a more effective and efficient entrepreneur or investor, please go to www.venture360report.com.
Innovate or Die: 10 ways to build your brand…a casket
To survive and thrive in today’s economy, it takes a lot more than just clinging to yesterday’s strategies and hoping for the best. It’s quite simple really, the future will belong to those brands that can rethink and re-imagine their core strategies. But those that fail to embrace change and take intelligent risks, will likely [...]
5 Lifelines For Your Startup
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. [...]
FAIL: 12 ways to blow your investor pitch
While there’s no shortage of reading about “how to pitch for funding”, from what we can tell, a lot of what’s written isn’t soaking in too well. So we thought we’d try a more unconventional approach with our latest constructive prose. Hot of the presses is FAIL: 12 Ways To Blow Your Investor Pitch. Our [...]
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Congrats DealBase!
DealBase.com, an online database devoted to aggregating hotel deals and packages, has secured $1 million in Series A funding from angel investors including Russ Siegelman, a partner at Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers. Read the rest of the good news on TechCrunch. The entire North team would like to congratulate Sam Shank, CEO of DealBase.com, [...]
Venture 360 Analysis Software & Report Output
It’s time we let everyone get a glimpse of what we’ve been working so hard on for the past few months. This is the official roll-out of the new software tool used by our in-house analyst team which, due to popular demand, is now available for use by interested investment groups. If you’re looking to [...]
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