The upcoming Angel Capital Summit on November 13th is a collaboration of Colorado’s leading professional organizations that serve entrepreneurs and early-stage investors. Instead of simply presenting pitch after pitch, this collaboration makes possible an entirely new approach to helping entrepreneurs and investors find each other.
NOTE: Only 8 days left to become one of the presenters.
Date: Tuesday, November 13, 2007, 1:00pm to 5:00pm
Location: Marriott City Center, 1701 California Street, Denver, Colorado (map)
Registration: Now open! Click here to register to attend.
- A collaborative selection process: Each of our investor partners will screen candidate companies to present, from among the companies with which they are working. This results in a broader selection of companies from a wider range of industries.
- An intensive coaching process that puts soundness of the business concept before "spit and polish": Each presenting company is put through a structured process that starts with a standards-based assessment of strengths and weaknesses, and follows up with one-on-one coaching with industry experts to address the weaknesses. The presentation itself is honed through a collaborative "pitch practice", where companies do a dry run to each other. Few companies go through this process without making significant, positive changes in their business plans. The result: better presentations, based on better business concepts.
- An emphasis on helping the right entrepreneurs and the right investors find each other: Many early-stage investors prefer to play an active role in their investments. With a standards-based process, it’s easier for investors to find companies that are closely aligned with their interests.
- Business intelligence data available nowhere else: The Summit will include a unique "State of Entrepreneurship in Colorado" report derived data about the presenting companies.
The Angel Capital Summit is a dramatic new extension of the RVC’s mission. Through the use of the Benchmark Survey developed by the Entrepreneurial Standards Forum, and the automated deal flow management system (DFMS) provided by The Business Catapult, the Angel Capital Summit has created new opportunities for entrepreneurs and investors alike to better understand their businesses and the investment opportunities they represent at a scale never before attempted in Colorado.
About the Entrepreneurial Standards Forum Benchmark Survey:
The Entrepreneurial Standards Forum’s Benchmark Survey is simple in concept and elegant in execution. In the Benchmark Survey, an entrepreneur’s answers are compared to the answers given by successful companies. The resulting Benchmark Report shows the entrepreneur where they are on the ’success path’. The Benchmark Report has proven to be a highly effective gap analysis for the entrepreneur, and a due diligence framework for investors that works to standardize the interface between them. Standards create new efficiencies. Entrepreneurial standards create entrepreneurial - and angel investor - success.
About the Business Catapult’s Deal Flow Management System:
With standards information can be put up into a database, searched for, retrieved and compared. Trends can be identified and statistics can be generated. New business intelligence can be created, as can new forms of measurement. In the sense that ‘if you can’t measure it, you can’t manage it’, with these tools, art becomes science. Working in partnership with the Entrepreneurial Standards Forum, the Business Catapult provides software as a service (SaaS) to organizations that work with entrepreneurs and investors to better improve performance for both.