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2021 Assessment Of The Birmingham Entrepreneurial Community

2021 Assessment Of The Birmingham Entrepreneurial Community

by Mike Goodrich | Jan 12, 2022 | 2021, 2022, Birmingham, Birmingham Funded Start-Ups List, COVID-19, Entrepreneurialism, Small and Medium-Sized Businesses, Start-Ups

As always with the new year, we’re taking some time to pause and reflect. First Avenue does so by compiling our annual list of funded start-ups in Birmingham, which helps us analyze the health of the city’s entrepreneurial ecosystem. I also like to take stock...
Not Urgent But Still Important: Three Things Every Founder Must Do (Part One)

Not Urgent But Still Important: Three Things Every Founder Must Do (Part One)

by Mike Goodrich | 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....
Current Perspective on the Birmingham Entrepreneurial Scene: Mid-2020

Current Perspective on the Birmingham Entrepreneurial Scene: Mid-2020

by Mike Goodrich | Jul 22, 2020 | 2020, Birmingham, Birmingham Funded Start-Ups List, COVID-19, Entrepreneurialism, Start-Ups

We provide this update every six months, and we’ve enjoyed doing so because it gives us a chance to reflect on the market that we love so dearly.  However, this perspective is different, and for obvious reasons. In some ways, it’s the most...
We Need to Save Birmingham’s Entrepreneurial Scene

We Need to Save Birmingham’s Entrepreneurial Scene

by Mike Goodrich | May 29, 2020 | 2020, Birmingham, COVID-19, Entrepreneurialism, Financing, Start-Ups

I am still not sure how COVID-19 will ultimately effect start-up funding, but I do believe that we can safely assume that there will be less of it in the coming years. How exactly will this play out? I don’t know. But the question I have now is whether institutional...
Why Now Is Not the Time for SAFES and Convertible Notes

Why Now Is Not the Time for SAFES and Convertible Notes

by Mike Goodrich | May 1, 2020 | 2020, Business Lessons, COVID-19, Entrepreneurialism, Financing, Start-Ups

Pre-COVID-19, I told someone that I did not like SAFEs and convertible notes. I wish I could find that person now; I would assume a little more credence. Regardless, for what it’s worth, I didn’t like convertible debt or SAFEs before COVID-19. Now, I really...
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