Aug 25, 2025 | 2025, Alabama, Birmingham, Birmingham Funded Start-Ups List, Economic Development, Entrepreneurial Assessment, Entrepreneurialism, Exits, FAV Funds, Financing, Founders, Investing, Legislation, Mid-Year Assessment, Regional Cooperation, Seed Investing, Small and Medium-Sized Businesses, Start-Ups, Valuation
“In all chaos there is a cosmos, in all disorder a secret order.” ― Carl Gustav Jung As we size up where we are mid-year with the Birmingham and Alabama entrepreneurial ecosystem, the theme that I see is: out of chaos comes order. One of the trends we’ve noticed...
Dec 6, 2024 | 2024, Alabama, Birmingham, Economic Development, Entrepreneurialism, Financing, Founders, Investing, Legislation, Seed Investing, Small and Medium-Sized Businesses, Start-Ups
The Public Affairs Research Council of Alabama (PARCA) recently released a comprehensive report on seed-stage investing in Alabama. We greatly appreciate the diligence PARCA put into this report and its thoughtful comparison of Alabama’s ecosystem with other...
Apr 13, 2022 | 2022, Alabama, Birmingham, Economic Development, Entrepreneurialism, Legislation
Business blogs and LinkedIn are places for business discussion, and I respect that. So without comment on the merits of HB 322 (Alabama’s version of the “Don’t Say Gay Bill”), which was recently signed into law by Governor Ivey, I ask: 1. ...
