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About Ada Nielsen

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Ada Nielsen is a consultant (PeregrineMaven Group) who analyzes and evaluates market opportunities for start-ups, then develops launch strategies that are practical, tuned to the market, and actionable. These skills are also useful for increasing market presence for current companies.

Previous corporate roles have included monetizing non-strategic projects (in chemicals), defending valuations successfully in I.R.S. audits, functioning as an angel investor for a large corporation, and creating and leading international commercialization strategies for inventions. She also worked for a public company in the finance department, valuing prospective investments, leading the development of the company-wide strategy, and producing the presentations for Wall Street.

Other experience includes teaching college chemistry (when she was a college dean) and theoretical physical chemistry at Dartmouth Graduate School. She earned an A.B. in Chemistry at Wellesley College, and an MBA from Chicago Booth Graduate School of Business with a concentration in Finance and Marketing.

Projects include coaching as well as managing start-ups, generally in B2B, working in-person and virtually from the Nashville, TN, area.


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Financial Poise Contributions

  • Turning an Idea or Product Into a Business Webinar premiered on June 7, 2023 Webinar Series: The Start-Up/Small Business Advisor
  • What Every Founder/Entrepreneur Must Know Webinar premiered on April 26, 2023 Webinar Series: The Start-Up/Small Business Advisor
  • Raising Capital: Negotiating with Potential Investors Webinar premiered on March 15, 2023 Webinar Series: The Start-Up/Small Business Advisor
  • The Very Basics: Forming the Business Webinar premiered on March 9, 2023 Webinar Series: The Start-Up/Small Business Advisor
  • Legal Issues for Innovators & Inventors Webinar premiered on December 28, 2022 Webinar Series: Intellectual Property 201
  • Buying & Selling IP Webinar premiered on August 30, 2022 Webinar Series: Intellectual Property 201 2022
  • Raising Capital: Negotiating with Potential Investors 2022 Webinar premiered on April 15, 2022 Webinar Series: The Start-Up/Small Business Advisor 2022
  • The Very Basics: Forming the Business 2022 Webinar premiered on February 15, 2022 Webinar Series: Start Up/Small Business Advisor 2022
  • Legal Issues for Innovators & Inventors 2021 Webinar premiered on July 15, 2021 Webinar Series: Intellectual Property 201 - 2021
  • Roadmap to Growing Your Business by Acquisition 2021 Webinar premiered on July 13, 2021 Webinar Series: Business Advice: From Start-up to Sale 2021
  • Buying & Selling IP 2021 Webinar premiered on June 17, 2021 Webinar Series: Intellectual Property 201 - 2021
  • Roadmap to Selling a Business or Taking on Outside Investors 2021 Webinar premiered on June 8, 2021 Webinar Series: Business Advice: From Start-up to Sale 2021
  • Turning an Idea or Product into a Business 2021 Webinar premiered on April 14, 2021 Webinar Series: Business Advice: From Startup to Sale 2021
  • Legal Issues for Innovators & Inventors 2020 Webinar premiered on June 18, 2020 Webinar Series: Intellectual Property 201 - 2020
  • Buying & Selling IP 2019 Webinar premiered on April 4, 2019 Webinar Series: Intellectual Property Boot Camp 2019
  • Choosing, Building, & Protecting Your Brand 2019 Webinar premiered on March 7, 2019 Webinar Series: Intellectual Property Boot Camp 2019
  • Introduction to Key Concepts 2019 Webinar premiered on February 7, 2019 Webinar Series: Intellectual Property Boot Camp 2019