The Two Keys to Success

Hello, this is Hall T. Martin with the Startup Funding Espresso -- your daily shot of startup funding and investing.

A university angel network is a group of investors formed around the affinity to a university.

The primary goal of it is to provide student experience and job placement.

Making money from the investments is secondary.

There are two keys to successfully launching an angel network at a university.

The first is a dedicated faculty member focused on running the student education program.

The faculty member sets the curriculum, runs the course, and works with the angel group on the students' participation in analyzing the deals.

This makes for a strong educational experience as the students work with real investors, real investment opportunities, and real dollars invested.

The second key to success is five check-writing angel investors.

Investors who participate regularly to view the deals, diligence them, and invest.

The investors provide key mentorship roles to the students.

Before launching an angel network at your university, line these two up first.


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On this episode of Investor Connect, Hall welcomes Brett Brohl, Managing Partner at Bread & Butter Ventures.

Bread & Butter Ventures is an early-stage VC firm based in Minnesota - the “Bread and Butter State” - investing globally while leveraging the State and region’s unparalleled access to strong corporate connections, commercial opportunities, and industry expertise for the benefit of their founders.

They lead rounds in some cases, and in all cases, they look to help syndicate and bring strong co-investors who can add additional value.

Bread & Butter Ventures works hard alongside their teams after investment and support through their platform efforts to connect you with the people, resources, and partners you need to scale globally.

Brett is the Managing Partner at Bread & Butter Ventures and also the Managing Director of the Techstars Farm to Fork Accelerator, partnered with Cargill and Ecolab. An experienced entrepreneur, investor, and mentor, Brett is driven by making a difference in the world through helping entrepreneurs succeed.‍

Prior to the Techstars Farm to Fork Accelerator, Brett served as Director of the inaugural Techstars Startup Next Food & Ag in Partnership with Land O’Lakes and as the Entrepreneur in Residence at Techstars Retail Accelerator in Partnership with Target. Brett honed his start-up skills as the CEO of multiple companies including ScrubSquared and BoomBoom Prints. He led 3 of his teams to exit but also went through a company failure, experiences he draws on when working with founders.

Passionately committed to growing the Minnesota startup ecosystem, Brett is a founding member of the Forge North coalition and sits on their leadership council as well as an initial member of the Launch MN advisory board. He earned his BA from Wake Forest, and his MBA from the University of Virginia, Darden School of Business. When he’s not engaging the world’s startup scene, Brett can be found hanging with his wife and kids, driving a lobster boat, or pretending to be a tennis pro. Brett’s bread and butter is building teams, identifying talent, and diving for lobster.

Brett advises startups and investors in the food tech space. He discusses the state of investing, the evolution of, and the biggest change he thinks we will see in the next 12-24 months in the sector. 

You can visit Bread & Butter Ventures at www.breadandbutterventures.com, via LinkedIn at www.linkedin.com/company/bread-and-butter-ventures/, and via Twitter at www.twitter.com/bread_buttervc?lang=en. 

Check out their podcast at fullstackfood.io.  

Brett can be contacted via email at brett@breadandbutterventures.com, via LinkedIn at www.linkedin.com/in/brett-brohl, and via Twitter at www.https://twitter.com/brettbrohl?lang=en.

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