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 |  Play Reid HoffmanPartner, Greylock Partners "Internet Investing 2.0" Reid founded LinkedIn, founding director of PayPal & Zynga, 1st round investor in Facebook, and 80 others. |
 | Play Jeff Clavier Managing Partner, SoftTech VC "Angel Investing and Capital Efficient, Lean Startups: Myths and Realities." Jeff is backed by Norwest and others with over 50 angel investments. |
 | Play Brad Feld General Partner, Foundry Group "Creating Sustainable Entrepreneurial Communities." Brad was an early investor in Zynga, Gist,etc, co-founded Techstars. |
 | Play Chris Dixon Founder Partner, Founder Collective "Partnering with Entrepreneurs: Teambuilding & Product Dev." Early investor in Skype, Foursquare, DocVerse (acq by Google), etc. |
 | Play Mike Maples Founder, Floodgate Capital. "Finding and Investing in Thunder Lizards" Early stage investor in Twitter, Chegg, Digg, Gowalla and many others. |
 | Play Naval Ravikant Co-Founder, AngelList "Reinventing Angel Deal Sourcing" Naval has helped countless tech entrepreneurs by opening up access to the angel community. |
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Aydin Senkut Founder, Felicis Ventures "Angel Thoughts on Selecting, Helping and Exiting Startups." Aydin has made over 50 angel startup investments such as Mint. |
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David Cohen CEO, Techstars "The Accelerator Phenomenon and Applying Their Best Ideas to Your Portfolio." David runs a highly successful accelerator program (now televised). |
"AngelPool has done an admirable job of bringing relevant content and very interesting speakers"- Bruce Goodwin, Midwest Venture Alliance "I like your teleconference series and appreciate what you are doing." - Parrish Ketchmark, RTP Capital "Wow, what a fantastic line-up. Thanks so much" - Graham Lawlor, Ultra Light Startups What others say about AngelPool
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We also provide Angel Group chairs with the dial-in and password for each of these in advance at no charge, you can then send the dial-ins out to your members and leverage these live events as an additional benefit of being a member of your group to help build your group.Recent Meeting Recordings. | |
 | Play Panel: JOBS Act Final Rules and How Angels can Leverage Them. |
 | Play The Art of Angel Investing: The Top Ten Myths. by Bill Reichert, Garage Technology Ventures Common sense rules often lead angels astray. Hear from a veteran with a number of successes what advice to heed and what advice should be disregarded in making great selections. |
 | Play Panel: Driving Lifestyle Companies Back to Fast Growth. |
 | Play Syndicating via AngeList and Syndication Best Practices. by Gil Penchina Great advice and thoughts on how to effectively syndicate angel deals through AngeList, what was learned, and how to optimize the process for effectiveness. |
 | Play Panel: How To Increase Angel Deal Flow and Quality. |
 | Play Panel: How to Achieve More Angel Exits. |
 | Play Tim Draper: Thoughts on Driving Innovation and Early Stage Funding Trends. |
 | Play Panel on Spilled milk: Avoiding Common Seed and Angel Losses. |
 | Play Panel: Thoughts on Exiting to Strategic Acquirers. |
 | Play Panel: Future Hot Angel and Seed Segments: Skating to Where the Puck Will Be. |
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| Play Growing Your Angel Group: Best Practices. • B Revolution Capital, Jacquelyn Hunter • Centennial Investors, Quinten Messbarger • Gopher Angels, David Russick • Maine Angels, Sandra Stone • Shoals Angel Network, Bud Ward • Tech Coast Angels, Steve Flaim |
 | Play Working with accelerators & crowdfunding: staying relevant. |
 | Play Working Philanthropy into Startups for Gain and Good. by Shanna Frati, Salesforce.com Foundation Salesforce pioneered the 1/1/1 model (1% of a company's time, 1% of its equity, and 1% of it's products is donated to worthwhile causes) which in turn has helped many participating companies grow by increased retention, satisfaction and leadership in their communities. See www.sharethemodel.org |
 | Play Questioning and Crafting Angel Term Sheets, Trends and Good Templates. |
 | Play 40 Ways for Angels To Lose Their Tails in Diligence. |
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| Play Mike Maples, Floodgate Capital. Finding and Investing in Thunder Lizards. Mike runs an early stage microinvestment fund and has made a string of great early stage investments such as Twitter, Chegg, Digg, Gowalla and many others. Before his investing days he helped Tivoli go public then co-founded Motive that also went public. His first startup was a gaming company he founded in high school. |
 | Play How Angels and Seed Funders Can Best Work with Universities & University Accelerators. • Association of University Technology Managers, Vicki Loise. • Capital Community Angels, Loic Couraud. • Hampton Roads Angel Network, Tim Early. • Harrisburg University, Entrepreneur-in-Residence, Ed Harrell. • Northeast TN Regional Accelerator, Dave Lawrence. • Northern Kentucky Angel Investment Network, Casey Barach. • P3 Alliance Purdue Angel Network, Dr. Tim Peoples • University of Akron, Akron ArchAngels, Gordon Schorr. • University of So.Cal., Stevens Center of Innovation, John Sweet. • University Technology Park, IIT, Daniel Marselle • Worcester Poly Institute, Jerry Schaufeld. |
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| Play Early Exits: Triggering and Maximizing. |
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| Play Naval Ravikant, Co-Founder, AngelList "Reinventing Angel Deal Sourcing". Naval has helped countless tech entrepreneurs by opening up access to the angel community regardless of location through the successful launch of AngeList and other key initiatives. |
 | Play Panel: JOBS Act Final Rules by the SEC that Govern Solicitation of Angel/Seed Rounds. |
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| Play Panel on Spilled milk: Avoiding Common Seed and Angel Losses. |
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| Play Panel: Profitable Future Angel Segments: Skating to Where the Puck will Be. |
 | Play Keynote: David Berkus, Chairman Emeritus, Tech Coast Angels: "Best Tips on Extending the Runway and Cashing Out" Dave has helped numerous portfolio companies start, grow, and successfully exit. Hear his sage advice on how to use portfolio companies can use their capital for best impact and exit in style. |
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| Play Panel: Angel deal flow and quality: best practices. |
 | Play Keynote: Mitch Kapor: "Seed stage Investing for Social Impact" Mitch founded Lotus and created Lotus 1-2-3, co-founded the Electronic Frontier Foundation, first chair of Mozilla (Firefox), founding investor in UUNET, first Chair of Linden Lab (Second Life), and has angel invested in a large number of successful startups such as Twilio, Odeo (Twitter), Sprout, Posterous, Hipster, SumbleUpon, bitly, Uber, Asana, and many more. |
 | Play Monitoring Portfolio Companies Panel: Best Practices. |
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Aydin Senkut, Founder, Felicis Ventures "Angel Thoughts on Selecting, Helping and Exiting Startups." Aydin has made over 50 angel startup investments such as Mint, and over 20 have been acquired by firms such as Google, Microsoft, AT&T, Disney, Ebay, and Intuit. |
 | Play Board Effectiveness Panel: Improving Performance. |
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David Cohen, CEO, Techstars "The Accelerator Phenomenon and Applying Their Best Ideas to Your Portfolio." David runs a highly successful accelerator program (now televised), has made numerous angel investment, and also led several successful exits as CEO. |
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Play Market Traction: Beating the #1 Cause of Failure. |
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Basil Peters, Author, Early Exits "Angel Thoughts on Triggering and Maximizing Exits." Basil founded a number of early stage funds where he has demonstrated best practices in achieving early exits at high valuations and speaks nationwide on exit best practices. |
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Play Bench Strength: Upgrading Company Leaders. |
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Geoffrey Moore, Author, Crossing the Chasm "Thoughts on Building and Rapidly Growing Your Portfolio Companies." Geoffrey is a best selling author on exploiting disruptive technologies and consults with many of the top tech companies in the world. |
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Naval Ravikant, Co-Founder, AngeList "Reinventing Angel Deal Sourcing." Naval has helped countless tech entrepreneurs by opening up access to the angel community regardless of location through the successful launch of AngeList and other key initiatives. |
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Play Angel Exits Panel: Triggering & Maximizing. |
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Play Spilled Milk Panel: Avoiding Common Losses. |
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Tim Chang, Managing Director, Mayfield Fund "The year of the Broken A Round." Tim was named to the Forbes Midas List based on his track record of selecting and helping great tech companies. He also co-leads Mayfield's China practice. |
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Esther Dyson, Founder, EDventure "Angel Thoughts on Selecting, Helping and Exiting Startups." Esther has made angel investments across the world such as Brighmail, del.icio.us, Flickr, Postini, Technorati, 23andMe, Eventful, Evernote, SquareTrade, etc and is a frequent commenter in leading tech publications. |
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Managing Your VC and Other Institutional Partners. |
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Scott Case, CEO, Startup America Partnership "Ideas to Drive Rapid Growth in Young Companies." Scott was the Founding CTO of Priceline, Chairman of Network for Good, and in his current role is focused on job creation by support and rapid growth of young companies. |
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Tim O'Reilly, Founder, O'Reilly Media "What's Coming Next Year and Angel Positioning to Capture These Trends." Tim has grown his media companies to over 270 employees and focuses on the knowledge of innovators. He has a long history of advocacy and evangelism in the tech community. |
| Play Brad Feld, General Partner, Foundry Group "Creating Sustainable Entrepreneurial Communities." Brad runs a $250mm seed and early stage venture firm, was one of the early investors in Zynga, Gist and dozens of others, also founded Techstars (similar to YCombinator), etc. |
 | Play Martin Varsavsky, Founder, Fon "What I Look for Before I Invest." Martin provides a unique view into mobile & international startups. He founded Fon (now the largest provider of Wifi hotspots in the world), 18 others, and was named a Top 25 Angel by BusinessWeek. |
 | Play Lauren Flanagan, Mng.Dir, Phenomenelle Angels "How to Upgrade a Portfolio Company's Leadership Team & Best Practices to Optimize the Exit." Named one of the Top 25 Angels in Tech by BusinessWeek, previously awarded IT Software CEO of the Year by Frost and Sullivan and has a strong track record of helping Tech companies go Public. |
| Play Exits Panel: Triggering and Maximizing. |
| Play Spilled Milk Panel: Avoiding Common Losses. |
| Play or View Jeff Clavier, Managing Partner, SoftTech VC "Angel Investing and Capital Efficient, Lean Startups: Myths and Realities." Jeff is backed by Norwest and others with over 50 angel investments, previously managed Reuters Greenhouse Fund with $600M invested in 82 companies, including Yahoo!, Verisign, Phone.com and Infoseek. |
| Play Deal Flow and Quality Panel: Best Practices. |
 | Play Minimizing Fees Panel: Safely Reducing Closing Costs. |
| Play or View Reid Hoffman, Partner, Greylock Partners "Internet and Investing 2.0" Reid is the Founder of LinkedIn, a founding director of PayPal, a founding director/investor in Zynga, first round investor with Thiel in Facebook, and has made over 80 investments in other tech companies to include Six Degrees, Tagged, IronPort, Flickr, Digg, Ning and many others. |
| Play Diligence Panel: What Matters & Best Practices. See Checklist |
| Play or View Chris Dixon, Founder Partner, Founder Collective "Partnering with Entrepreneurs: Teambuilding, Product Development and Financing." Chris started Founders Collective (large seed fund) and was an early investor in Skype, Foursquare, DocVerse (acq by Google), InviteMedia (acq by Google), SiteAdvisor (acq by McAfee), kSolo (acq by News Corp), Arbitrade (acq by Citigroup), etc. |
| Play Future Hot Sectors: Skating to Where the Puck Will Be. |
 | View David Card, Director of Research, GigaOM "Future Tech Trends and What is Getting Hot." GigaOM is a leading tech industry research firm with millions of subscribers and readers. David has been following the intersection of technology, media, and consumer behavior 20+ years at GigaOM, Jupiter Research, IDC and Forrester. |