Friday, March 12, 2010

Grades 7-12: Raising Money


Session 6: Raising Money

Where do entrepreneurs find the money to start their businesses?

From bootstrapping to angel investors and venture capital, in this session we’ll explore three different aspects of raising money to start a business.

Tuesday March 23rd 10:00 a.m.

Dar Caldwell – a young Cleveland based entrepreneur will discuss how he and his colleagues have scraped together the seed-stage financing to get their new ventures off the ground.

Doug Hardman - Co-founder and CEO of Sparkbase will define what an “angel” investor is and describe his experience raising “angel” investment.

Jonathan Murray – is an experienced Cleveland based venture capitalist who will share his perspective as a VC investor.

Schools interested in participating in this program should contact John Ramicone at
john.ramicone@ideastream.org or 216-916-6360 by March 19th