InvestorAvenue.com listed on TradeVibes

In some sleuthing, we've recently discovered that InvestorAvenue.com was picked up by TradeVibes.com! TechVibes is a 'new way to discover, find, and share opinions and information about cool startups'. Help us out by adding a bullish opinion! Check out our TradeVibes profile here...

W3W3.com interview with InvestorAvenue.com founder Kelly Burton

We're excited that W3W3.com selected an earlier interview with Kelly Burton, founder of InvestorAvenue.com as a Top Story of 2008. In this interview, Burton discusses the importance of exposure to many investors to increase the likelihood of funding. We're honored that our story was selected! Click here to hear the interview.

InvestorAvenue.com partners with the Denver/Boulder Green Tech Meetup

Colorado's Green Tech Group and InvestorAvenue.com have announced a new partnership!

The Colorado Green Tech Group empowers the development of Green Technologies and the creation and growth of Green Tech Companies. They are a gathering of people interested and involved in Alternative Energy, Alternative Transportation, Energy Efficiency, Green Building, and Recovery/Recycling technologies. They meet monthly, with over 100+ attendees per session and over 600 members, the meetings are a focal point for investors, inventors, entrepreneurs, academics, and others interested in Green Tech in the Boulder/Denver area.

Since many entrepreneurs presenting at the Green Tech Meetups are looking for funding, the partnership with InvestorAvenue.com ensures the green tech startups will get proper exposure to accredited investors across Colorado and beyond.

Locavestors - by the NYT

The New York Times had a great article recently about Locavestors and how many investors are now focusing their investment activities in their own back yard. I've included the article here - but it's just another reason why you need to get connected to your local investment community! InvestorAvenue.com can help - ensure you register and post your deal today!

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Locavestors
by Amy Cortese in the NYTimes on December 12, 2008

Perhaps you’ve heard of locavores: people who eat only foods that have been produced within a 100-mile radius. Now some people — call them locavestors — are investing in much the same way. The idea is that, by investing in local businesses, rather than, say, a faceless conglomerate, investors can earn profits while supporting their communities. To help match mostly local investors with capital-hungry local businesses, regional stock exchanges are starting to spring up around the globe.

Consider InvestBX, which was formed to serve businesses looking to raise relatively small sums in England’s West Midlands region. In February, InvestBX’s first listed company, Teamworks Karting, which runs an indoor go-kart center in Birmingham, raised more than $735,000 to open a new track in nearby Reading. In November, Key Technologies, a high-tech firm with 232 employees and annual sales of some $26 million, floated shares worth nearly $3 million. To list on InvestBX, a company must be based in the United Kingdom and have a significant part of its operations in the West Midlands. Companies can raise about $3 million from “local and U.K.-wide investors.”

Local exchanges address a financing gap for smaller companies, which may not be able to attract venture capital and for whom the major exchanges may be out of reach. “Small businesses need funding options more than ever in today’s recessionary climate,” says Trexler Proffitt, a professor at Franklin & Marshall College in Lancaster, Pa., who recently completed a feasibility study for a seven-county Lancaster exchange. (His conclusion: affirmative.)

In a way, we’re coming full circle. Until the 1950s, when they began to consolidate, there were thriving regional exchanges all across the country. “Globalization has been advantageous, but we’re starting to see the sacrifices we’ve made,” Proffitt says. “People are interested in figuring out how to connect to their local communities again.”

We're home

David Cohen, Founder of TechStars, http://techstars.org mentioned to me in some feedback that he provided on our website last week, that having an empty blog makes it look like nobody is home. He is right; so, here you go. We’re home.

Those of you who know me know that I usually have quite a bit to say, so I am working to take the very verbal and aural style I have in face to face settings, or on the phone, and turn it into a blog monolog. Wish me luck…..p.s. my phone still works.

Thanks for the nudge, David.

p.s. this is also a bit of a test to see if the latest technology from britekite picks this up???