We look for great ideas. Ideas with technological advantage.

We look for great chemistry between the creative energies of the entrepreneurs and our skills and experience as well as good synergies with any professional management we help recruit. We take as active a role as is needed including interviewing, selecting and selling candidates. We think of ourselves as co-founders, sitting on the same side of the table as our partners the entrepreneurs.

We leverage our portfolio family to the hilt. Our companies include earliest stage firms all the way up to public plays. The experience base of each of our companies is on tap to the others. Who knows the best PR firm? Which company has recently reviewed executive recruiting firms? How about best practices in Internet advertising? We connect people to people as resources among our entrepreneurs.

After investing, we quickly help the company organize and build for the future. We begin assessing the strategy and objectives facing the company and roll-up our sleeves to help out with the issues together with the management team.

We make initial investments of $25,000 to approximately $250,000 in seed and first round venture capital situations and have invested as much as $5M over the life of a portfolio company. We are often the first investor of any kind in a company and either bridge or lead initial funding.

We are well connected with venture capital firms and funds for future rounds of funding. Over the last 3 years Lachman Goldman companies have raised more than $135M in private follow-on financing rounds.

We are also private businessmen and entrepreneurs. We move fast with the freedom of complete independence. There's no "investment committee". We can make decisions and deals quickly. We don't let process get in the way of success.

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