Funding 101: Actionable Advice For Astute Investors and Ambitious Early Stage Startups

Funding 101: Actionable Advice For Astute Investors and Ambitious Early Stage Startups Featuring Hall T. Martin

Whether you are a seasoned investor or a novice. An early state startup or mature business needing a capital infusion. Hall T. Martin provides a wealth of information in the latest episode of The Business of Business Podcast

About Hall

Hall T. Martin is the Founder and CEO of TEN Capital and Host of the Investor Connect podcast program

He launched the firm as the Texas Entrepreneur Networks in 2009. Today, TEN Capital has over 12,000 investors in its network, and has helped startups raise over $900M.

Mr. Martin serves as the Vice-Chair of the Baylor Angel Network. He previously led the Central Texas Angel Network (CTAN) as its first Executive Director.

Mr. Martin is the Host of the Investor Connect podcast program. He is the founder and director of Investor Connect which is a 501(c)3 non-profit dedicated to the education of startup investors.

Mr. Martin is a Founder and initial Managing Director of SKU (Incubation Station), a consumer product goods accelerator based in Austin, Texas, and the former Managing Director of AccelerateNFC, an accelerator based in Dallas, Texas, focusing on Near Field Communication.

Mr. Martin serves as an adjunct professor for the University of Texas leading the Idea to IP program which fosters startups from the engineering program.








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Funding 101: Actionable Advice For Astute Investors and Ambitious Early Stage Startups Featuring Hall T. Martin

Sun, 7/18 2:32PM • 38:01

SUMMARY KEYWORDS

investors, people, vcs, crowdfunding, startups, founder, product, angels, raise, angel, market, money, investor, invest, company, valuation, funding, austin, business, consumer product goods

SPEAKERS

Hall, Roy Barker



Roy Barker 00:03

Hello, and welcome to another episode of The Business of Business Podcast. I'm your host Roy. Of course, we are the podcast that brings you a wide variety of guests that speak to a lot of diverse topics. Today is no different. We're excited and been waiting quite a couple months here to get Hall T. Martin on the show.



And I do appreciate all the patience in this. But Hall is the founder and CEO of TEN capital and host of the Investor Connect podcast. He launched the firm as the Texas Entrepreneur Networks in 2009. Today, TEN Capital has over 12,000 investors in its network and has helped startups raise over $900 million. Mr. Martin serves as the vice chairman of the Baylor Angel Network, and he previously led the Central Texas Angel Network (CTAN) as its first Executive Director. Mr. Martin is also host of the investor Connect podcast. He is the founder and director of Investor Connect, which is a 501 (c) 3 non-profit dedicated to the education of startup investors.



He is also the founder and initial marketing, excuse me, Managing Director of SKU (Incubation Station), a consumer product goods accelerator based in Austin, Texas, and the former Managing Director of Accelerate NFC, an accelerator based in Dallas, Texas focused on near field communication. Mr. Martin also serves as an adjunct professor at the University of Texas leading the idea to IP program which fosters startups from the engineering program. Hall, Thanks so much for taking time out of your day to be with us. I certainly do appreciate it.



Hall 01:47

Great, Roy, thanks for having me here. Looking forward to our discussion.



Roy Barker 01:50

You bet. So what is led you? You know, I guess what is your background? And kind of what how did you find yourself in this position? What led you to, I guess, be be an investor and want to help others grow their businesses through the accelerators and everything else?



Hall 02:06

Sure. Well, I've always been an early stage startup guy, and I went to work for a company in Austin, back in 1986. And then they went IPO in 1995. And I started doing angel investing after that, had a lot of fun with it made have made an investment in an Austin company and probably lost all my money and discovered it's harder than it looks and But still, like the early stage. And then we had an angel network in Austin called the Capitol Network that ran from 1995 to 2002.



And then they were tied to the dot com world. And when that went away, they went away with it. And so we didn't have a group 2006, the city did a restart. And they called it the central Texas Angel Network. And I said, I want to be a part of that. So I was the first member to sign up. And when you're the first member to join, you're automatically on the board in charge of membership, and it's a great honor. No pay was great honor.



So we did that. And after a...