Yesterday’s Willamette Angel Conference (WAC) 2013 event invested more than $465,000 in four Oregon startups, highlighted by more than $250,000 in Portland-based Sonivate, which has developed a fingertip-mounted ultrasound probe that enables imaging while leaving both hands free to do work with simultaneous tactile feedback. Three other startups got WAC investment at the event: Amorphyx, [...]
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If you’ve never been to a business plan competition or angel conference, you really should try to find one to attend. They’re excellent networking events and great opportunities to see what other entrepreneurs are up to. But more importantly, they give you the rare chance to hear what potential investors like and don’t like about [...]
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I’m in my business plan marathon season again. This happens every April as I read business plans for my angel investment group in Oregon and for business plan competitions held this month by University of Oregon, Rice University, University of Texas, and the University of Notre Dame. I want to make it clear, first, that I [...]
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If you read this blog regularly, then you know I’m a member of an angel investor group (Willamette Angel Conference) and a fan of angelsoft.net, which our group, and hundreds of others, uses to manage the process. Still, I was quite concerned the other day to read the fox-in-henhouse problem posted in a very well-written [...]
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I posted here yesterday about the Willamette Angel Conference, a local group of angel investors, of which I’m a member, choosing to invest at its annual conference event. The winner turned out to be Good Clean Love, selling natural, organic, healthy intimacy products. For more on that, click here for Our Angel Group Chooses to [...]
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If you don’t read Becky McCray’s Small Biz Survival blog, this is a good chance to remind you that you should. It’s been on my blogroll here on this blog for a long time now. And what reminds me is her “Can you teach entrepreneurship” post on that blog a couple of days ago. Teaching [...]
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I’m actively reviewing more than three dozen submissions as a member of the Willamette Angel Conference. I participate in the investment, and I get one vote. Our group is reviewing companies and will award a six-figure investment at an event held May 13 in Eugene, Oregon, my home town. Our behind-the-scenes process to review companies, [...]
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Happy Monday morning to you. As I get back into the office today, absorbing my coffee, catching up on things after a week of business travel, I noticed Laura Leites has a posted very good list of Small Business Summits, Workshops, Events, and Webinar on Small Business Trends. These are mostly local events, a few [...]
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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 [...]
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Last night I listened to attorney Karen McKercher presenting tips for negotiating an investment deal to a group of angel investors (the Willamette Angel Conference members). I think her list of five points is good reading for both sides of the table, both startup founders and angel investors. Here’s a summary (points are Karen’s, and [...]
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