The Big Sky Venture Capital Conference Update

3rd Annual Venture Conference For The Northern Rockies

August 23 – 24, 2007

Summit Hotel, Big Sky, Montana

http://www.bigskyventurecapital.com

The Big Sky Venture Capital Conference is pleased to announce this year’s line up of speakers and the first round of selected presenting companies.

The Conference team is pleased to announce this year’s line up of speakers. Russ Sullivan, top advisor to Senator Max Baucus, will be keynoting the 3rd Annual Big Sky Venture Capital Conference slated for August 23 – 24 at Big Sky Resort.

Sullivan is advisor in all issues in the committee’s jurisdiction, including taxation on the proposed change on carried interest as income and the benefits to business owners and venture capitalists. Don’t miss this opportunity to meet with Mr. Sullivan in person to share your thoughts on carried interest taxation. Mr. Sullivan has expressed a keen interest in meeting with and gaining feedback from executives and the broader financial community about this important legislation impacting everyone.

Also joining the line-up of this premier regional VC event is Andrew Field, founder and CEO of PrintingForLess.com in Livingston, MT (http://www.printingforless.com). Andrew will share his thoughts on how to build and grow a web-based business in a rural market. With sales in excess of $25M annually, 180 employees and a brand new state of the art facility, Andrew is approached regularly by national VC and Private Equity firms. PFL is the largest e-commerce commercial printer in the U.S. and has sustained healthy growth rates for several years.

Brad Feld and Jonathan Weber will discuss and debate the challenges and opportunities of rural venture investing. Brad is both a successful venture capitalist (Softbank, Mobius and Foundry) and angel investor with experience in the entire Rocky Mountain region. Jonathan is an experienced entrepreneur, (http://www.newwest.net) having raised venture and angel capital in both San Francisco and Missoula, Montana. Clearly there are opportunities to make above average returns in rural markets but equally as clear is that there is a big difference in the investment process.

You can view the first round of presenting companies selected for this year’s conference at 2007 Presenting Companies http://www.bigskyventurecapital.com/venture-capital-conference-presenting-companies.html .

The selection committee for The Big Sky Venture Capital Conference continues to seek presenting companies.

Please encourage any companies you see fit to apply.

Presenting companies should be:

– High growth, innovative companies (Preference will be given to Internet, software, IT,

media, communications, energy, life sciences, and medical device companies.)

– Seeking seed stage funding through mezzanine stage funding

– Located in the Northern Rockies Region (OR, CO, WY, WA, ID, UT, MT, AK)

Web applications from prospective presenting companies are being received at http://www.angelsoft.net/asp/ntPortal.action?currentGroupId=221047

Application deadline is July 23, 2007.

Questions can be directed to Gary Bloomer, [email protected], 406.556.0272.

Please let me know if you are interested in golfing.

We have scheduled a block of tee times at the Big Sky Golf Course beginning at 12:00 on Thursday, August 23rd.

If you haven’t already done so, please register for your hotel rooms.

To register for your hotel rooms please click on the following link and enter the following group code. Be sure to enter the full code, including all zeros.

You will be asked to put in your credit card to hold the rooms.

Here is the info:

Group Link: Big Sky Group Lodging Webpage https://booker.hotelfactory.com/cgi/uzbook1.cgi?p=14275&c=UZ&s=BS14275&r=www.bigskyresort.com

Group Code: 000034292

We look forward to seeing you next month.

The Big Sky Venture Capital Conference is presented by TechRanch http://www.techranch.org/ .