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| RAISING MONEY from ANGELS and
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Raising money (capital), is one of
the most critical and time consuming tasks for entrepreneurs when starting and
growing a company. Times and Terms have changed dramatically since the boom
days of "dot com".
On Tuesday, February 5, you will learn about
raising money for your company from Private Investors (Angels), Venture
Capitalists (VC), and a CEO who has done it. Our panelists, with backgrounds as
entrepreneurs, and in raising and investing money, will provide
point-counterpoint. The panel will also discuss changes in the ground rules and
availability of funds since the market decline of March-April, 2000. ROI and
Profits have replaced "eyeballs" as investment criteria. Expectations of rapid
exit via IPO (Initial Public Offering) or sale have made way for realistic
break-even times. Find out what domains are hot, and not. |
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Panel:
Richard
Morley is cofounder of the Breakfast Club, an Angel investor group
formed in the mid-80s. He is CEO of R. Morley Inc., a global consulting firm
specializing in manufacturing & process controls. Mr. Morley was founder
and is on the Board of Flavors Technology, one of his portfolio companies. He
is co-founder of more than ten companies, including Modicon and Andover
Controls, and participated in starting more than 20 companies. Using his
studies in physics at MIT as a springboard, Dick has become an internationally
recognized pioneer in the fields of computer design, artificial intelligence,
automation and technology trend forecasting. Mr. Morley holds 24 patents,
including the programmable logic controller, magnetic thin film, parallel
inference machine, and hand-held terminal. He is also author or co-author of
numerous articles and books, including The Technology Machine: How
Manufacturing Will Work in the Year 2020.
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Michael
Gagnon is General Partner of GTV Capital, a VC firm investing primarily
in seed and early stage communications infrastructure companies. He has
twenty-five years experience as a CEO and marketing executive in start up and
Fortune 500 communications companies. Most recently, Mike has been President of
Executech, a consulting firm that specialized in strategic positioning, equity
financing and corporate partnerships for communications companies. Earlier, Mr.
Gagnon was President of Acacia Networks, and raised $20M in venture capital. He
held a series of executive positions at Analog Devices; was VP of Sales and
Marketing, at Anadigics where the company raised $30M in venture and corporate
funds and completed an IPO; helped raise $40M financing at TRW LSI Products;
worked at TRW Semiconductors and Hughes Corporation. He earned a BSEE from
University of Massachusetts, an MBA from California State University, and
studied Strategic Planning at Harvard University.
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Thomas
Burgess has a number of successes in the B2B and B2C software technology
markets. He initiated and expanded several organizations from "idea" to
multimillion-dollar businesses, successfully raising over $40 million in public
and private financing. Recently, Mr. Burgess was the President of CourtLAN,
where he guided the company through the first round of financing. Earlier, he
was President of CollegeLink.com (Amex: APS), sold to Monster.com, where he
completed three acquisitions and a public offering, increasing the
company’s valuation to over $100M. He also founded, Angel funded, and was
CEO of 9th Square, currently Bluestreak.com; founded and was CEO of echoMEDIA,
that he merged with Softbank Interactive Marketing, increasing sales to $40
million. He was also Director of Sales for Timecorp Systems, sold to Verifone,
and later purchased by Hewlett-Packard, and worked with Network Plus. He has a
BA from Providence College.
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Les Brown is an Angel investor,
and President of Brown & Burstein, Lexington-based management advisors to
VC firms, Boards of Directors, CEOs and senior executives of technology-based
companies. Mr. Brown is an interim CEO for startups and turnarounds, and
rapidly resolves business and technology issues in company performance,
markets, management, and technology implementation. Les founded three firms and
was instrumental in starting and mentoring many other companies. He has over 25
years of multidisciplinary experience, and has commercialized over $200 million
of successful products and services. Les earned advanced degrees in engineering
and business, and has been an invited speaker and moderator at many
conferences, seminars, and universities. He was also a founder and for five
years Chair of the IEEE Boston Entrepreneurs' Network, and was past Chair of
the 11,000 member IEEE Boston Section.
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