‘Angel Groups In Action: Funding Early Stage Innovation’, 6/1, University Of Montana-Missoula, TechRanch- Bozeman

The University of Montana School of Business, MATR and TechRanch are pleased to host a Web Broadcast of MIT’s ‘Angel Groups in Action: Funding Early Stage Innovation’. This will help Entrepreneurs (and Angels) better understand what investors are looking for and how they operate.

This will be an excellent way to learn how to “play the investing game” as well as meet new fellow entrepreneurs and local Angels. Current and potential Angel investors are also encouraged to attend as we expand the Angel Network in Missoula, Bozeman and throughout Montana.

Wed. June 1, 2005

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Missoula: Urey Lecture Hall, University of Montana, Missoula, MT
Map: http://www.umt.edu/discoverUM/Maps/UM%20campus%20map.pdf

Contact: Russ @matr.net 406-542-9395

(Many thanks to Dean Larry Gianchetta of the UM School of Business http://www.business.umt.edu/ for sponsoring the Missoula event – Russ)

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Bozeman- TechRanch http://www.techranch.org 910 Technology Blvd , Suite A, Bozeman, MT 59718 406.556.0272

Contact: Jody McCurry [email protected] (406) 556.0272

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4:00PM to 7:00PM

4-5 Introductions and Networking (so bring your business cards and business model descriptions and ideas)

5-6:30 Broadcast which will include Q&A from the audience

6:30-7 Wrap-up and more networking opportunities

RSVP to Russ Fletcher [email protected] or 406-542-9395 in Missoula and Jody McCurry [email protected] (406) 556.0272 in Bozeman

With venture capitalists becoming much more selective, startups and entrepreneurs have had to tap new revenue sources in the past several years, increasingly turning to angel investors to fund new business ventures. As angel investing has increased in importance, groups of angel investors are constantly emerging and new and best practices are being adopted.

‘Angel Groups in Action: Funding Early Stage Innovation’, a satellite and web broadcast presented by the MIT Enterprise Forum, the Kauffman Foundation of Kansas City and its program, the Angel Capital Association, will tell entrepreneurs what they need to know how to gain access to angels, how to understand what they are looking for and how they operate.

The program aims to help close the knowledge gap that exists between entrepreneurs and the tech community, and will explain the practices and principles of angel investing, both via the broadcast, and through the in-person networking taking place at each viewing site.

Featured panelists include Ed Roberts ’57, MIT Sloan School of Management Professor and Founder of the MIT Entrepreneurship Center; James Geshwiler GM ’00, Chairman of the Angel Capital Association and Managing Director of CommonAngels; Dan Roach (moderator), of Brown & Brown LLP; Jeffrey Sohl, Director of the Center for Venture Research and Professor of Entrepreneurship and Decision Sciences at the University of New Hampshire; and Jerry Schaufeld, a member of numerous angel investor groups.

To find a viewing site in your area, visit http://www.mitenterpriseforum.org for a complete list. Or, you can email the Enterprise Forum at [email protected] if you would like to create a viewing site in your area if one does not currently exist.