While state and private incubators and accelerators help, funding for startups is still really tight in the so-called “Valley of Death,” says Jim Jaffe, president and CEO of the National Association of Seed and Venture Funds.
Jaffe, who is participating at this weeks Southeast Venture Conference in Tysons Corner, VA, where 60 innovative startup firms will present their business plans to venture and seed investors representing billions in capital, says those firms are lucky to have such a well-heeled audience.
Jaffe notes that “Even getting in front of funders is enormously difficult. They’re inundated by people with interesting ideas and its not unusual for them to have hundreds of contacts a week.”
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