Capital Access SIG: Investor-Ready Entrepreneur Seminar

    Become an investor-ready entrepreneur!

Raising equity capital is challenging at best. Becoming an Investor-Ready Entrepreneur ^TM is designed to educate and prepare growth-oriented entrepreneurs to successfully engage private equity investors. Getting ready includes a wide range of activities and decisions that will help the entrepreneur with their business in a number of ways. This program was developed with direct input from experienced entrepreneurs, angel investors, angel networks/fund executives, and venture capitalists, and provides an “insider’s look” into the world of equity funding. By viewing investors as “customers of equity”, entrepreneurs can reduce barriers to funding, navigate the process more easily, and increase the chances of obtaining funding for their business.

§         Learn about the equity funding “food chain”.

§         Find out what investors look for and expect from the companies they fund.

§         Learn how to make your company “investor-ready”
(and improve your business while you’re at it).

§         Assess your own “readiness” at each step of the way.

§         Hear from those who’ve “done it”. Panelists will include serial entrepreneurs and angel investors who’ve “been there”.

§         Receive a comprehensive workbook, ongoing counseling support and access to additional online resources.

Sponsorship of the Investor Ready Entrepreneur seminar is
ideal for professional service providers wishing to work with emerging  businesses and high net worth investors in the Gulf Coast region. Highly targeted market access is available to legal, banking, accounting, and numerous other organizations that would benefit from better exposure. Additionally, any sponsorship through the Capital Access Special Interest Group of the Louisiana Technology Council is generally tax deductible (consult CPA).

§   Break Sponsor ($1000): Break Sponsors will be provided exposure to a highly targeted market of emerging business leaders through listings in all marketing materials and workbooks for the Investor Ready Entrepreneur seminar, will be introduced and thanked at the beginning of the full day event, will be allotted gratis attendance for two participants, will have the ability to distribute marketing materials during the designated breaks, and will serve to foster the Gulf Coast entrepreneurial environment in general.

§   Lunch Sponsor ($2000): The Lunch Sponsor will be provided exposure to a highly targeted market of emerging business leaders through listings in all marketing materials and workbooks for the Investor Ready Entrepreneur seminar. The Lunch Sponsor will also have the option to recommend one firm member as a seminar panelist, will be allotted gratis attendance for four participants, will at the beginning of the luncheon be either introduced and thanked or have the option of speaking, will have the ability to distribute marketing materials during the luncheon, and will serve to foster the Gulf Coast entrepreneurial environment in general.

§   Reception Sponsor ($3000): The Reception Sponsor will be provided exposure to a highly targeted market of emerging business leaders and high net worth investors through listings in all marketing materials and workbooks for the Investor Ready Entrepreneur seminar and the Angel Investing & Angel Funds presentation. The Reception Sponsor will also have the option to recommend one firm member as a seminar panelist, will be allotted gratis attendance for six participants, will at the beginning of the reception either be introduced and thanked or have the option of speaking, will have the ability to distribute marketing materials during the reception, and will serve to foster the Gulf Coast entrepreneurial environment.

LLlearn from experienced investors and entrepreneurs

Panelists and moderators to include:

§         Tim Janke, SBTDC/IMAF – investor and early stage fund executive

§         Troy Knauss, PAN II – serial entrepreneur & angel fund executive

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