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Marvin Maslow pursues an investment strategy that is best described as guerrilla entrepreneurship. The traditional entrepreneurial path usually wanders through a maze involving meticulous study of business plans analysis of balance sheets investigation of profit potential followed by protracted negotiations with the company seeking funding. By then the fledgling company may have dissolved for lack of capital to continue its project.
Maslow cuts to the chase.
Does the company have a high-potential proprietary product or technology? As important what are the people like? Maslow invests in people because he believes it is the perseverance creativity and vision of people that will advance a product or technology to its full potential.
However Maslow’s ‘just do it’ style is tempered with an extensive business background and a clear vision of future application of the technology. As a merchant banker he founded and managed 10 successful enterprises. Later Maslow was the principal in a private investment company and placed substantial capital in privately held emerging growth companies. His responsibilities involved managing these investments as well as the growth and direction of their attendant organizations as the companies matured. | 