What will Cause the Next Financial Crisis and Can Opportunity Zone Funds be the Solution to a Quicker Recovery?
The economy has been going strong for nine years, one of the longest economic expansions in the United States on record. But some event will ultimately end it. While it will be tough to predict the timing, severity and length of the next recession, we can identify a key growing threat (debt) exacerbated by the growing wealth divide and the lack of potent central banking tools that can make the next recession more severe than the one of 2008. Excessive corporate and consumer debt compounded with the synchronization of the [...]
Opportunity Zone Map
About the Opportunity Zone Mapping Tool Below is the official Opportunity Zone map that were nominated by the governors of every U.S. state and territory as well as the Mayor of Washington, D.C. Each territory was then certified by the Treasury Secretary of the United States. All designated Opportunity Zones are highlighted in the green color below. To find an opportunity zone near you: Click on the Map below In the top right enter the desired city and state To zoom to the street level click the Zoom button on [...]
Qualified Opportunity Zone Fund: What Investors Need to Know
As of January 9th 2019 the IRS cancelled a key hearing on Opportunity Zones and would have focused on clarifying the nuances around tax breaks and proposed regulations under the new program. The government shutdown has put a major pause on clarifying some recurring questions investors have with the program. Peter Brack founding partner of Hypothesis Ventures stated, "With the government shutdown, the Opportunity Zone hearing scheduled for January 10th has been postponed indefinitely. This hearing was to address the over 150 comments submitted to the Federal [...]
Rocco Forino on The Value of Investing in Entrepreneurs
April 15, 2018: Part of this Article appeared in Fortune Term Sheets section Deals and Deal Makers Jeff Fagnan believes that if you're a startup founder, you have a social responsibility to become an angel investor — whether you want to or not. "We feel like if someone helped you, you need to pay it forward as well," he told Term Sheet. Fagnan, the founder and general partner of seed-stage venture capital firm Accomplice, is well known in the Boston startup ecosystem. The firm's portfolio companies include AngelList, Carbon Black, DraftKings, Hopper, PillPack, Veracode, [...]
20 Female Founded Startups to Join in 2018
This article appeared on Angel List December 13, 2017 We live in a time where women receive less than 2.19% of all venture capital funding. But within this tiny percentage, there lives a group of startup founders who are poised to generate outsized returns for their investors. In 2017, we saw a growing number of women-led companies achieve significant traction with customers and raise millions of investment dollars to expand their businesses. Startups like Accompany, Glossier, Shippo, and Lumi, among others, are killing it. We asked investors from top [...]
