We have put just over 30 days between us and our official launch. In this short period of time, we have hit a bump or two, experienced some successes and more importantly confirmed that there is a place for Know More Media in the big world of business journalism.

Despite our initial progress, we see substantial opportunity to expand our network of authors, our audience and the quality and method of delivering our content. To take advantage of this opportunity will require a talented team of professionals. Our experience tells us that in the early stages of growth, it takes financial capital to attract and retain human capital.

So over the next several months, we will be looking to partner with sources of investment capital. Of course we would like a high valuation, an investor that can provide not only capital but relationships that will help our business, strategic guidance, leadership, mentoring and encouragement. But we know, as the Rolling Stones sang, “you can’t always get what you want, but if you try sometimes, you might find that you can get what you need.”

We have retained Thorpe Capital to guide us in this process. Devin Thorpe, founder and Managing Director of Thorpe Capital, has also started blogging about the subject and other middle market investment banking topics on MidMarketMaven.

Stay tuned. The opportunity to expand our team, our network and our product is important to us. Venture capital is merely a means to an end, not our purpose. We will remain committed to the tenets for which Know More Media was founded. After this process we hope to offer our services better and faster.  That is what we need.