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...
Feb 26, 2021 | 2021, Business Lessons, Entrepreneurialism, Financing, Small and Medium-Sized Businesses, Start-Ups, Valuation
Part One of Three: Valuation[1] The question of how one should value an early-stage company is often asked, but usually has no good answers. If the opportunity is large enough (which is the goal with venture capital), a thorough valuation is perceived as irrelevant....