What Investors Really Want To See in Your Business Plan
Meeting Overview:
The business plan is your primary vehicle for conveying an organized thought process to investors about your business, team, and pathway to success. Successful entrepreneurs and their investors recognize that to raise capital and grow their businesses, they need well-conceived and -implemented business plans.
Our panel consists of three successful investors (Venture Capitalists & Angels) who have also been successful CEOs. They will provide advice on how to put a business plan together, tell you what works and doesn�t work in today�s investment climate, network with you, and answer your questions.
Panel:
Moderator:
Meeting Site and Cost:
5:15 PM Pre-meeting
Dinner
Bertucci's Restaurant
475 Winter St., (exit 27B off Route 128), Waltham, MA ("pay-as-you-go")
7:00 - 10:00PM
Meeting Presentation
Forefront Center, 404 Wyman Street, Waltham, MA
There is a $20.00 fee for nonmembers of ENET.
No reservations are necessary for either the meeting or dinner
Click here for directions and a map to the dinner and meeting
Panel:
Elliot Katzman, is
a General Partner of Commonwealth Capital Ventures
(www.ccvlp.com/index.asp),
a VC firm that invests in early stage companies in the software,
communications, and instrumentation sectors. Prior to joining
Commonwealth, he was a General Partner at Kodiak Venture Partners.
Katzman founded and led Myteam.com, a direct marketing/new media company
now a part of the Active Network. As CFO of Atria Software, he led an
IPO and a $1 billion merger with Pure Software, the largest software
merger of its time. He also was Senior VP and ACF at SolidWorks, where
he led the merger with Dassault Systems.
Hambleton (Ham) Lord is the Managing Director of LaunchPad Venture Group (www.LaunchPadVentureGroup.com), an angel group that makes early stage investments in the range of $100K-$500K. LaunchPad has over 60 members from the Boston technology community. The group has active investments in 13 companies in areas such as enterprise software, technical software, consumer web sites, and medical devices. Ham has over 20 years of experience in the software industry, where he co-founded three software companies. He graduated magna cum laude with a BS degree in computer science from Brown University.
Roger Walton is a Partner of Castile Partners (www.castileventures.com ), a VC firm that invests in early stage companies in the communications, software, and IT infrastructure sectors. He currently serves or participates on the boards of Neah Power (OTC:NPWS), Sandbridge Technologies, and Whaleback Systems. He was previously a board member at Quantiva (acquired by NetScout) and at Stargus (acquired by C-COR). Over the last 20 years he has held a number of senior management positions at high tech firms. He holds an MA degree in Mathematics from Oxford University.
Alan Silver
has been the part-time Chief Financial Officer (www.PartimeCFO.com)
for over 50 technology start-ups over the last 12 years. At Andover.net he
was the part-time CFO from when the company had fewer than 10 employees
until just 5 months before the company went public. He has an MSM degree
from the MIT Sloan School of Management, is Treasurer of Boston
Entrepreneurs' Network, and has been
a panelist at MIT Enterprise Forum Start-Up Clinics.
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
||||||||
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
||||||||