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Calling For Oregon Angel Investment Candidates

by Tim Berry on February 22, 2010

Is your company in Oregon? Is it a startup or early-stage company looking for angel investment? Does it have the kind of team and growth prospects that can make money for investors?

If you answered yes to those three questions, please go to the Willamette Angel Conference (WAC) website and submit your company for WAC 2010, to be held in Eugene, Ore., in May.

Yes, it will cost your company $199 to submit a plan. (For the record, that money goes to affray the costs of the event; not a penny of it goes to the investors.) But how can it not be worth that to get your company in front of legitimate investors?

At the end of the May 13 event, the angel investor group will have chosen a company for an investment of more than $100,000.

Even if you don’t win, what’s it worth to get feedback from people who are ready to invest real money in real companies? These people will be reading your summaries, watching your online videos and, if you get to the semifinals (12 to 15 companies will), they’ll be reading your business plan, listening to you deliver your pitch, asking questions, making comments and giving your feedback.

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About the author: Tim Berry is founder of Palo Alto Software and Bplans.com. Follow him on twitter @timberry. More »

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  • james c rice

    I have a product that, I have invented. I am at a wall. I could revolutionize the music industry. I need help getting patent, copyrighted, trademarked and building a corporation. I look forward to speaking with you. Thank you for your time.

    • http://timberry.bplans.com Tim Berry

      James, if that’s the case, buckle down and get it done. The information you need is waiting for you on this site or any of hundreds of others about how to get angel investment, how to develop a plan, what kinds of business deals attract investors, how to find viable partners, recruit a management team, etc. You can’t ask for help until you’ve taken the first few steps yourself, and then, once you’re reasonably well informed, you’ll have a much better idea of what you have and how to get to the next steps. Honestly, it doesn’t help you to be asking for help before you’ve taken the first few steps yourself.

      By the way, you left your comment in December of 2011 on the bottom of a post from February of 2010, referring to Oregon-specific angel investment. If you’re not in Oregon, if you read the post, then this won’t help you at all. If you are in Oregon, do a good web search, there are several angel investment events in Oregon in the next six months. For them, if you’re based in Oregon, your timing is perfect.

      Best of luck to you. I hope you do revolutionize the music industry. Tim

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