Time: 8 am to 5 pm
Location: Westin Times Square Hotel
The Golden Seeds angel group and Kauffman Foundation are pleased to present a one-day seminar, the Power of Angel Investing – Angel Investing Overview, on Wednesday, April 26th. The seminar is open to individual angels in the New York region and to participants at the ACEF 2006 North American Summit.
Seminar Overview
The Power of Angel Investing seminar provides a comprehensive overview of angel investing for investors with limited or no angel investment experience. This full-day seminar is a balance of expert presentations, panel discussions, and small group cases studies. It is offered in a protected environment, without solicitations from service providers and entrepreneurs looking for angel financing. There are multiple opportunities for individual conversations with faculty and participants throughout the day.
The seminar has been presented by the Kauffman Foundation throughout the US (and via partners throughout the world) more than 70 times in the last three years and received strong reviews for:
- Importance of topics and content
- Quality and knowledge of speakers
- Relevance and benefit of information
- Presentation of information
Agenda for the Day
The jam-packed day focuses on key issues to becoming a sophisticated, high-quality angel investor:
- Finding angel opportunities that are right for you
- Investment goals and portfolio strategies
- Local deal sourcing
- Due diligence
- Structuring the deal/term sheets
- Valuing start-up companies
- Monitoring angel investments
- The post-investment relationships between angels and start-up companies
- What to do when things go wrong
- Angels as advisors – bringing more than money to investments
Seminar Faculty
This seminar features an “all star” team of national and local experts in high growth ventures and early stage investing opportunities, including seasoned angel investors with diverse investment experience, tax and legal experts, and angel-financed entrepreneurs. They will be led by Kauffman Foundation Lead Instructors William Payne and John May. A partial list of faculty includes:
- Lou Anne Flanders-Stec, Administrator, Piedmont Angel Network (Greensboro, NC)
- Stephanie Hanbury-Brown, Managing Director, Golden Seeds LLC (New York, NY)
- John May, Managing Director, New Vantage Group (Washington, DC)
- Steve Mercil, President & CEO, RAIN Source Capital (Minneapolis, MN)
- Bill Payne, Gatekeeper, Vegas Valley Angels (Las Vegas, NV)
- David Rose, Chairman, New York Angels (New York, NY)
Materials
Each participant will receive a customized workbook with copies of all presentations, substantial additional background documents, a comprehensive glossary, and bios on each faculty member. Highlights include valuation case studies and related real term sheets, a capitalization table that shows evolving equity for each investor during each round of investment, and practical articles and templates on due diligence and working with entrepreneurs.
Sponsors
The key sponsors of the seminar include:
Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation, www.kauffman.org
Golden Seeds, LLC, www.goldenseeds.com
Angel Capital Education Foundation, www.angelcapitaleducation.org
