RSSEntrepreneurs/Experts: David Ahlers
- David Ahlers Discusses Impact Of Scholarship To Phillips Exeter Academy
- David Ahlers Discusses Work As Lifeguard
- David Ahlers Discusses Early Professional Career At IBM And Importance of Learning How To Sell
- David Ahlers Discusses Decision To Work On Wall Street After Getting PhD And Then Return To Academia
- David Ahlers Discusses Decision To Enter Executive Education Market
- David Ahlers Discusses Decision To Create Community Based Venture Fund
- David Ahlers Discusses Second Fund At Cayuga Venture Fund
- David Ahlers Discusses Advantage of Having Science Background
- David Ahlers Discusses Experiences At College At Ohio State
- David Ahlers Discusses First Professional Experience At Boeing Aircraft and IBM
- David Ahlers Discusses Experience In Army
- David Ahlers Shares Thoughts on How To Approach Undergraduate Business Education
- David Ahlers States Business Program At Carnegie Was More Mathematics Than Business
- David Ahlers States Work In Forecasting Models Led Him To Wall Street
- David Ahlers Shares Experience in Modeling Within Banking Environment
- David Ahlers Discusses Differences In Business World and Academic World
- David Ahlers Discusses When Business Should Seek VC Funding
- David Ahlers Discusses Difference Between Angel Investor and VC
- David Ahlers States Purpose of Due Diligence Is To Eliminate Surprises
- David Ahlers Shares Thoughts on Valuation
- David Ahlers Provides Definition of Term Sheet
- David Ahlers Shares Thoughts on Intellectual Property and Its Value To VCs
- David Ahlers Discusses Challenge Of Building A Commercial Venture While Within The Academic World
- David Ahlers Discusses Beginning Stages Of Taking Idea From Acadmic World To Business World
- David Ahlers Discusses Funding Rounds Needed To Get Startup Off The Ground
- David Ahlers Discusses Advantage of Backing Companies That Are Spin-Off Generators
- David Ahlers States Universities That Are More Advanced In Research Are Generally Further From Commerialization
- David Ahlers Discusses Challenge In Keeping Faculty Focused On Issues Related To Commercialization
- David Ahlers States Importance of Understanding The Business As An Entrepreneur
- David Ahlers Shares Examples From Professional Experience
- David Ahlers Discusses Importance of Developing A Sales Strategy
- David Ahlers Shares Personal Examples of Sales Experiences
- David Ahlers Discusses Importance of Safeguarding Ideas and Working With Trustworthy People
- David Ahlers States Importance of Being Able To Run High Powered Team
- David Ahlers States Golf and Sailing Are Hobbies Which Enable Networking
- David Ahlers States Uneducated Angel Investors Come At High Cost
- David Ahlers States Importance of Startup Having Defined Organizational Structure
- David Ahlers Outlines Thoughts on Strong Business Plans
- David Ahlers States Importance of Having Customer Support and Having Trust In Management Team
- David Ahlers States Importance Components of A Pitch To A VC
- David Ahlers States Cayuga Venture Fund Strategy Is To Go Narrow And Deep
- David Ahlers States One Challenge of Being CEO is Learning To Let Go Of Other Responsibilities
- David Ahlers States Surprise At Politics In University Setting
- David Ahlers Suggests Starting Career In Investment Banking
- David Ahlers States Main Problem Of Being An Entrepreneur Is Not Having A Corporate Safety Net
- David Ahlers States Entrepreneurs Do Not Have A One-Word Job Description
- David Ahlers Discusses Sources of Seed Capital
- David Ahlers States If You Want Access To Money, Go Work Where Money Is Handled
- David Ahlers Discusses Creating Community Venture Capital Group In Ithaca
- David Ahlers Outlines How Community Venture Capital Group Can Be Started
- David Ahlers Provides Definition of Limited Liability Company (LLC)
- David Ahlers Discusses Specifics Of Making Investment Decisions And Investing Outside The Fund
- David Ahlers Shares Example of Platform Technology
- David Ahlers Shares Example of Nano Technology With Which Cayuga Venture Fund Is Involved
- David Ahlers States Critical Piece of Cayuga Venture Fund Was Adding Economic Value to Ithaca
- David Ahlers Discusses Terms Used In Venture Capital Arena
- David Ahlers Shares Story of Investment In Internet-Based Company
- David Ahlers States Investment In Rapidly Developing Technologies Often Defies Conventional Wisdom
- David Ahlers States Cayuga Venture Fund Never Let A Company Fail
- David Ahlers Outlines Capital Resources of Later Funds At Cayuga Venture Capital
- David Ahlers Discusses Challenges Facing Universities In Commercializing Technology
- David Ahlers States The Smartest People Are Not Often The People Running Corporations
- David Ahlers Discusses Importance of Networking and Building a Solid Educational Foundation
- David Ahlers States Importance of Vision and Timing
- David Ahlers Shares Thoughts on Failure, Conditioning and Self-Examination
- David Ahlers Shares Thoughts on Challenges of the Future
- David Ahlers Discusses Opportunities For Working With Professors To Try To Commercialize Their Ideas
- David Ahlers States World Class Research Often Means It Is Less Applied To The Marketplace
