Apr 23, 2021
While Nashville is known as the Music City, it’s also home to one of the nation’s top private universities: Vanderbilt. With a vibrant business school, Vanderbilt’s alumni are well-entrenched in the region’s business community. Eric Johnson, dean of the university's Owen Graduate School of Management, shares...
Apr 23, 2021
What’s the state of M&A financing post-COVID? One thing is for certain: Deals are being funded. Mark Guterman, managing director of loan syndications for First National Bank, and Martin McCormick, managing director and head of FNB Mezzanine Finance for F.N.B. Corp., discuss what’s changed, what hasn’t, and...
Apr 16, 2021
Intellectual property is a valuable asset, especially in a
venture’s earliest stages. But what BlueTree Allied Angels’
Executive Director Sreekar Gadde tends to see is early-stage
companies viewing IP as an investment tool, rather than a strategic
tool, which means they are grabbing patents without...