Exit Strategies for Investors & Entrepreneurs
An Investor Ready workshop Web-cast brought to you by the Angel Forum
Web-cast available for a limited time so buy your ticket today!

Replay the workshop highlights for as long as you like. Share them with your team to ensure you get the exit you deserve.

Entrepreneurs should have a clear exit strategy before they approach angel investors or venture capitalists. Many present the wrong exit strategy and scare off investors.

Watch the web-cast preview video above or click here to find out more.

Did you know that:

• The IPO market is dead but the market for early exits is still strong.
• Most technology company acquisitions are under $30 million in value.
• What the four major steps are that I should be doing now to plan for a successful exit?
• What about the timeline, valuation and legal process? case study: Parasun exit.

Learn from top exit experts: Basil Peters, Randy Garg, Brent Holliday, Mike Volker, Axel Christiansen, Steven Lukas, Thomas Hellmann and others.

Click here for more information about the speakers and topics. Exclusive web-cast sponsor: BC Innovation Council

“Seminar Design was very good. Fast Moving. Topic sequence was good. Held audience attention well. Length of presentations was nicely short. Presenters stuck to their allotted times well.” Adrian Palmer  Vancouver Investor

As an introductory offer, customers will also receive a $25 Riiplay.tv credit to apply against future webcast access!

Buy Now at www.riiplay.tv and get the exit you deserve.

Last year, fundfindr helped top start-ups that we featured on fundfindr.com or had networked with get an audience with the producers of CBC TV’s Dragon’s Den.  The producers at the time told us they appreciate our ability to filter deal flow and that the Dragon’s were getting testy - “if we see one more Web 2.0 start-up…”

That said, whether you are a tech start-up or something more traditional, fundfindr may be able to assist you in standing out from other applicants.

The fact is video is an important part of raising investment today - both to refine your pitch and to distribute it.

If you upload a free video pitch yourself at www.fundfindr.com, we will review and share top prospects with the show’s producers.

Plus you will reach an audience of Angels - not Dragon’s - and be able to easily share your pitch with prospects directly.

If you would like our Riiplay.tv service to help produce a professional video pitch for your application to the Dragon’s Den, Angel Forum, Angelsoft, VANTEC or other investor sites, we’ll make sure as Danny Robinson says “…you look good even if you aren’t”.  Thanks Danny!

Contact us for rates and more info at info@riiplay.tv.

See this post for FAQs on your prospects, tips and what you need to know.  Well, Season 4 is rolling around and auditions are scheduled in BC including:

• Victoria - Monday, March 30th
• Prince George - Tuesday, March 31st
• Nanaimo - Wednesday, April 1st
• Campbell River - Friday, April 3rd
• Vancouver - Friday, April 3rd and Saturday, April 4th
• Nelson - Tuesday, April 7th
• Kelowna - Thursday, April 9th

More details on the Dragons’ Den auditions and online application here.

More tips from Mike Volker and VANTEC including exclusive fundfindr.tv interviews by clicking on thumbnail below and here. 

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Looks like a good week to raise capital in Vancouver with a series of events including Vancouver Enterprise Forum’s Venture Capital Outlook 2009 on Tuesday January 27th.  Find out the current investment climate for tech companies and strategies you can use plus the usual networking and Lightning Talks.

We highly recommend this event if you’re looking to raise capital this year as the speaker line-up is very strong and other investors will be in-house.  Practice your pitch and we will see you there.

fundfindr.tv is pleased to bring you an online replay of the event afterward so you can see the highlights again and retain the knowledge gained.     Like to be notified of this Event worth sharing? Subscribe to our feeds:

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One of the voices that cuts through the clutter in the world of start-ups and venture capital is Paul Graham. Paul’s latest post speaks to the realities of starting up in a climate like today. Reality: It may be tougher to find investment. Yes, and valuations are impacted but investment still takes place at events like today’s Angel Forum and otherwise.

Reality: As Paul shares, recruiting a killer co-founder is more important than the state of the economy. We hear this refrain consistently from investors considering dealflow, most recently Summit Partners out of Boston, who are following Vancouver start-ups. While a later stage investor, Summit reinforce that the team is job 1 to address for fundability so be realistic about your gaps … then fill them!

On the positive side in a bad economy, competition lessens and as he wraps up the lesson, he reaffirms the gospel that “for a given team on a given technology the time to act is always now.”

As fundfindr.tv strives to share the best resources, advice and content around entrepreneurship with you this post is too good not to re-blog. Some of my other favorite essays well worth your time are Lies we tell kids and How not to die.

Paul is one of the partners in YCombinator for those in the know (yes the 10 million of you who viewed a page on his site in 2007) and for those not - here is the bio from his site:

Paul Graham is the author of On Lisp (1993), ANSI Common Lisp (1995), and Hackers & Painters (2004). In 1995, he and Robert Morris started Viaweb, the first ASP, which in 1998 became Yahoo! Store. In 2002 he discovered a simple spam filtering algorithm that inspired the current generation of filters. He has an AB from Cornell and a PhD in Computer Science from Harvard.

Full essay and much other content of value here.

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On the eve of the launch of another season of CBC’s Dragon’s Den and today’s event featuring some of the top Angel investors on the West Coast, Being a Director in the 21st Century - Angel Investor Workshop, we are pleased to present Part II in our exlusive fundfindr.tv interview with Mike Volker. Mike was one of the star faculty for the Angel Investor Workshop along with Basil Peters, previously featured on fundfindr.tv here and primary organizer, Bob Chatworth-Musters. For Part I of Mike’s fundfindr.tv Interview, click here and look for Part III in early October where Mike discusses Angel Funds and much more.

Along with Basil and Mike, Bob is a driving force in the entrepreneurship and innovation space in the NorthWest. Bob Chatworth-Musters has an extensive background in corporate finance, international banking and private investment management in Vancouver, the Middle East and London, England. In 1997, he started the ANGEL Forum - Vancouver - one of the largest angel groups in Canada and he is a Director of the Canada’s National Angel Organization.