Key Dates
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Doing it Right in NYC: Program Details & Schedule
Key Dates
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| 8:00am – 9:00am 9:00am – 10:30am 10:30am – 10:45am 10:45am – 12:15pm 12:15pm – 1:15pm 1:15pm – 3:15pm 3:15pm – 3:30pm 3:30pm – 5:00pm 5:00pm – 6:00pm |
Registration & Breakfast Has the Dust Settled? Angel & VC Market in 2009 Break Capital Raising from Silicon Valley to Silicon Alley Lunch How to Get the Wallet Out of an Investor's Pocket Break Building Your Executive Team & Board Cocktail Reception |
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8:00am – 9:00am 9:00am – 12:00pm 12:00pm – 1:15pm 1:15pm – 3:15pm 3:15pm – 3:30pm 3:30pm – 5:00pm |
Breakfast
Own Your Own Financials Workshop Lunch Winning Valuation and Term Sheet Strategies Break Alternative Sources of Funding |
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8:00am – 9:00am 9:00am – 10:30am 10:30am – 10:45am 10:45am – 12:15pm 12:15pm – 2:00pm 2:00pm - 3:00pm |
Breakfast Bootstrapping to Success: Go-to-Market Strategy & Sales Break Balancing Tomorrow's Strategy with Today's To-Do List Entrepreneur’s Roundtable Lunch David S. Rose on “How To Pitch!” - (Bonus!) |
Entrepreneurs will hear directly from local investors about what is getting funded today, what are typical terms and what can the entrepreneur expect when fundraising in today’s market. Conversations will be led by VCs, Angels and Corporate Business Development experts and moderated by a seasoned legal expert active in negotiating in the current business climate for startups.
Moderator:
Lori Smith, Goodwin Proctor LLP
Panelists:
Bob Greene, Contour Ventures
Stephanie Hanbury-Brown, Golden Seeds
Brian Hirsch, Greenhill SAVP
Dahlia Kang, Edison Ventures
David Rose, New York Angels
Raising money on both coasts is an increasingly common strategy. In this session, VCs and angels will share the similarities and differences in fundraising strategies that succeed in each market.
Moderator:
Lili Balfour, Atelier Partners
Panelist:
Peg Jackson, Neocarta Ventures
Will Porteous, RRE Ventures
Bart Stuck, Signal Lake Ventures
Entrepreneurs will gain an understanding of the best practices for investor presentations with a focus on how to articulate your company as an attractive investment opportunity. Included in this session will be the essentials for presentations to angels, venture capitalists and strategic investors. Companies will have the opportunity to receive on-the-spot feedback from leading experts.
Moderator:
Jeanne Sullivan, Starvest Partners
Panelists:
Jalak Jobanputra, NYCIF
Daphne Kis, Golden Seeds
Alison Newman, Cooley
Kylie Sachs, Ascend Ventures
Strategic Executive Team and Board building are essential components to success. This session will include an overview of the decision-making process for filling out your executive team - including skill set, culture and experience, as well as resources to utilize when filling these critical positions. This session will also explore investor concerns around founders as executive team members.
Moderator:
Liz Hamburg, Upstart Ventures
Panelist:
Brian Evje
Divya Gugnani, Behind the Burner
Loretta McCarthy, Golden Seeds
Lisa Ricciardi, Essex Woodlands Health Ventures
This session will prepare the entrepreneur for the first and subsequent meetings with their investors. Entrepreneurs will learn the terms and skills needed to create a defensible financial picture of the company helping them to better articulate and defend the business model and strategy. Companies will have the opportunity to receive on-the-spot feedback from leading experts.
Moderator:
Debora LaBudde, Envoi Ventures
Vanessa Wilson, Golden Seeds
Determining the valuation of your company is both and art and a science critical to closing a deal. In this session, venture capitalists, angel investors, and entrepreneurs will discuss the valuation issue as well as familiarity with term sheet issues.
Moderator:
Thomas Devaney, Morrison Foerster
Panelists:
Thatcher Bell, DFJ Gotham Ventures
Dayna Grayson, Northbridge Venture Partners
Sarah Tavel, Bessemer Venture Partners
Sherri Williams, Montgomery & Co
Many attractive funding alternatives to angel and venture investment are available to entrepreneurs. In this panel, leading experts who provide alternative sources of funding will describe options, the criteria involved, how companies can better prepare themselves to receive such investment, and the points within a company’s lifecycle with such investments add the most value. Panelists will also discuss corporate development opportunities that can assist company cash flow.
Moderator:
Faith Charles, Mintz, Levin, Cohn, Ferris, Glovsky & Popeo P.C.
Panelists:
Linda Conlin, Export-Import Bank of the United States
Katherine O'Neill, Jumpstart NJ Angel Network
Melissa Stepanis, Silicon Valley Bank
Michael A. Wiley, NJ Economic Development Authority
Led by experienced startup entrepreneurs, this session will focus on the key components of effective executive leadership and the importance of building lasting business relationships that lead to business and personal professional success.
Moderator:
JJ Ramberg, MSNBC
Panelists:
John Elton, iNovia Capital
Laura Ramsey, Zweave
Scott Reardon, Dakota Ventures
Running a company requires attention to daily details, a constant stream of emergencies and future planning. Learn from leading experts and successful entrepreneurs how to balance the critical tasks for today with an operational strategy that enables the company to accelerate and attain its goals.
Moderator:
Nicole Brookshire, Cooley
Panelists:
David Freschman, Innovation Capital
Richard Guha, Max Brand Equity
Lisbeth McNabb, w2wLink
Jon Vollemaere, Vollume
Panelists:
Brian Evje
Greg Collins
Alexis Coppedge, Morrison Foerster
Nicole Perrotta, UBS
In this special session, David S. Rose -- Chairman of New York Angels and CEO of Angelsoft, who has been profiled by BusinessWeek as “The Pitch Coach", will present a one-hour presentation workshop that is mandatory for all Astia participating companies. This interactive session will prepare entrepreneurs for the April 23, 2009 Astia Screening Day, as well as equip them with the critical tools they need to communicate with angel and venture investors.