Shane Spencer

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This article and podcast was first published by Serious Startups.

In this episode angel investor and venture capital fund manager Shane Spencer breaks down funding types, what investors are looking for, the specifics to know if you want to get funded, and how to get past the first round!

By John Maddox

John Maddoxis a father, serial entrepreneur,…

This article was first published by The Kansas City Business Journal and written by James Dornbrook

Kansas City has a new venture capital firm. The Collective Funds will target Kansas City-based seed-stage companies that have a developed product and their first customer already lined up.The firm intends to deploy $10 million in the next two to four years. It will look to invest in about 20 to 30…

This article was first publish on Startland News by Bobby Burch

The Collective Funds — a new venture capital group in Kansas City — will be exclusively targeting early-stage firms in the area starting as early as this summer.

Led by four Kansas City entrepreneurs, the $10 million fund aims to fill an area funding gap as well as inspire a cultural shift among local investors that may be hesitant…

Real Estate Finance For Professionals

Lately, I’ve been working on a new project, Real Estate Finance For Professionals.

Real Estate Finance For Professionals is the practitioner’s answer to real estate finance education.  We’ve packaged graduate level real estate finance education into quick, bite-sized, relevant lessons you can learn quickly and implement into your business.

Whether you are a real estate agent, broker, investor,…

Angel Investors Recommit to KC with New Fund

By: Ashley Jost | September 08, 2015

A new micro venture investment fund launched in Kansas City last week is targeting local, regional and national technology and science startups for funding.

The fund, run by Angel Capital Group, is targeting $1 million to $5 million in capital to invest.

This isn’t ACG’s first funding effort in Kansas City. The organization has a chapter dedicated entirely to…

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SaaS: Meet Your New, Better Looking Brother, SaaS-IRT #SaaS #Saas-SIRT

The brightest minds in the world have come up with the most advanced and forward thinking business model to ever grace our economy.  This model is called SaaS and its rocking the tech industry.

For those of you who are not in and around tech, SaaS (pronounce sah-ss, rhymes with “glass”), stands for Software as a Service has revolutionized the industry.  SaaS is the “new” business model where…

I’m an alternative fixed income guy.  As you already know I founded a company called Green REIT.  Real Estate Investment Trusts or REIT’s are type of or sub category to this big pot we call alternative fixed income.

To understand what alternative fixed income is, we must understand what fixed income is.  Alternative fixed income are investments that have similar characteristics to fixed…

We haven’t seen oil prices this low since 2009.  As I’m writing this, oil is trading between $44 and $46 per barrel.  We’ve all experienced, and probably enjoyed, the lower prices at the pump, but is this a good thing?  Are prolonged cheap oil prices good for the American economy?  Are the benefits gained at the pump catalysts for increased discretionary spending?  Are those gains from…

From Entrepreneur to Private Equity – 2014 Was A Wild Ride

Green REIT

Green REIT experienced the entrepreneurial highs and lows in 2014.  Every startup, entrepreneur, leader, etc. go through these ups and downs.  If you haven’t, I’m happy for you, but your position can change without warning.  So prepare for the time when everything isn’t going right, so that when it does you can take it in stride.  

At the beginning of 2014, Green REIT was on its upward…