Episode: 14 See Jane Angel Invest with Alicia Syrett
If you’ve ever wondered what advisory board members are, how to tell when you need them, or where to find them, you’re in the right spot.
You should also stick around if you’re looking for tips and tricks on how to get your startup noticed -- straight from an angel investor focused on women entrepreneurs.
Today’s guest is Alicia Syrett, founder of Point 25 Initiative, a mentorship program for women entrepreneurs seeking advisory board members. She is also the founder and CEO of Pantegrion Capital, an angel investment vehicle focused on seed and early stage investments.
If you’ve ever wondered what advisory board members are, how to tell when you need them, or where to find them, you’re in the right spot.
You should also stick around if you’re looking for tips and tricks on how to get your startup noticed -- straight from an angel investor focused on women entrepreneurs.
Today’s guest is Alicia Syrett, founder of Point 25 Initiative, a mentorship program for women entrepreneurs seeking advisory board members. She is also the founder and CEO of Pantegrion Capital, an angel investment vehicle focused on seed and early stage investments.
Alicia and I have worked together on CNBC’s Power Pitch, and have bonded over our mutual passion for for helping women entrepreneurs. She's also been on MSNBC's Your Business, is a contributor for Inc. magazine, and an instructor for Steve Blank's Lean LaunchPad course at Columbia University.
Notable Moments:
- Learn what to do if you’re not sure if you’ll need investor dollars or not.
- Find out how to look at advising as a career path.
- Hear Alicia’s story and how she returned to the “dynamic” energy of a startup.
- Listen as Alicia identifies the trap a lot of startups fall into when looking for investors.
- Find out what the vast majority of companies spend too much time on (and what they should be focusing on).
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Episode: 4 See Jane Crowdfund with Aja Atwood
When people think of startups, they often imagine ideas written on napkins and late nights brainstorming in the basement. I assure you, Aja Atwood’s start up, Trella, is not your average startup. She’s light years ahead of the curve creating solutions to indoor farming needs and specifically the space concerns in urban farming. How amazing is that?!
“So in order to get ourselves to this point, we did a lot of self funding.”
When people think of startups, they often imagine ideas written on napkins and late nights brainstorming in the basement. I assure you, Aja Atwood’s start up, Trella, is not your average startup. She’s light years ahead of the curve creating solutions to indoor farming needs and specifically the space concerns in urban farming. How amazing is that?!
Aja’s business ethos is driven by the belief that success is rooted in innovative technologies that can be shared with the communities that need them the most. And that belief is the catalyst behind Trella and the crowdfunding campaign she’s currently spearheading in to fund the latest prototype of her revolutionary plant training system.
Notable Moments:
- Find out how Aja and her co-founder designed a product that can revolutionize indoor growing practices anywhere, but especially in urban areas.
- Learn why Aja is committed to helping cannabis growers and supporting the medical marijuana industry.
- Discover how Aja’s career as an engineer prepared her for entrepreneurship
- Learn why an Indiegogo contribution based crowdfunding campaign was the best choice for Trella.
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