Organic continues to the hot new trend for startups

Tim Berry posted some short but insightful articles on his “Up and Running” entrepreneur.com blog about the Willamette Angel Conference, a local group of angel investors, of which I’m a member, choosing to invest at its annual conference event. The winner turned out to be Good Clean Love, selling natural, organic, healthy intimacy products. For more on that, click here for Our Angel Group Chooses to Invest in Healthy Natural Organic Intimacy Products on my main blog today.

It’s interesting seeing a trend emerging. Software and web applications, which is where my experience is, aren’t winning the competitions. Medical businesses won all three MBA venture competitions this year, and finalists were mostly medical, natural, organic or clean energy. And a natural organic but basically low-tech product won our angel investment.

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