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Welcome to The Sunstone Way, a new blog from John Keisler, the CEO at Sunstone Management. Come back here every week as we explore how Sunstone is helping enrich companies, communities and lives through investment. It’s our goal with this blog to explain how we are working here at Sunstone to enrich the world by helping startup founders turn a…
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5 Strategies We Use to Identify Great Startups Yesterday, while sitting on stage at TiEcon Southwest, I was asked to answer the most difficult question facing all early-stage venture capital investors: “What information do you use to identify great startups?” This is such a difficult question to answer because there is so little information available to forecast the potential for…
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5 Keys to Small Business Success Almost every city in America—large and small, rural and urban, coastal and inland—is looking for new and creative ways to attract and grow new small businesses in their communities. Small businesses are the backbone of the American economy and provide several critical resources to the health of a city including job creation, revenues to…
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How Government & Business Work Together to Grow the Economy We often hear that “government should run more like a business”. Typically, this statement is meant to imply that the private sector is more innovative, creative, and efficient—that the American economy would grow more if only government would get out of the way. This is a common assumption in American…
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Last week, Sunstone Management announced the launch of our most recent investment in early-stage entrepreneurs with Sunstone University, a monthly education series hosted at our conference center in Irvine, CA that brings university-based startup Founders together to share resources and support one another. But this is just one of many recent investments in the university-based startup community. Sunstone Management has…
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This week, Sunstone Management announced its exciting nationwide expansion into New York City through a new partnership with early-stage startup accelerator Lair East Labs. Rated by Crunchbase as one of the Top 100 Accelerators Worldwide, Lair East Labs will work closely with Sunstone Management to provide technical assistance, coaching, and network support to approximately 10 early-stage technology startups in the Sunstone Management…
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Earlier this month, Sunstone Management distributed approximately $1 million in Simple Agreements for Equity (SAFE) to 10 early-stage technology startups with the hope that these diverse entrepreneurs would become partners in the creative, complex, and challenging journey of risking it all to realize their entrepreneurial dream. This activity—early-stage venture capital investing—is an incredibly unique and creative aspect of the American…