Investor Insight Series at Monthly Breakfasts
May 23 - Howard Morgan, Partner, First Round Capital
June 27 - Ian Sigalow, Greycroft Partners
July 25 - Joy Marcus, Venture Partner, DFJ Gotham Ventures
September 19 - Nick MachShane, Sr., Managing Director, Progress Partners
October 24 - Fred Wilson, Managing Partner, Union Square Ventures
November 28 - Bob Greene, Managing Partner, Contour Ventures
December 19 - Peter Flint, Partner, Polaris Venture Partners-NYC
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January 30 - John Frankel, Partner, FF Venture Capital
February 27 - Charlie O’Donnell, Partner, Brooklyn Bridge Ventures
March 27 (8:30 am)- Brad Harrison, Managing Partner, BHV
March 27 (11:00 am) - Sim Blaustein, Principal, Bertelsmann Digital Media Investments
April 24 - Frank Meehan, Investor, Entrepreneur, Spotify Board of Directors
May 22 - Rory Eakin / Ryan Caldbeck, Circle Up
July 31st – Matthew Christensen, Rose Park Advisors – On Disruptive Innovation
September 25th - Scott Levine, Managing Director, Time Warner Investments
All will cover topics from the following:
- Their fund's sweet spots, stage of company, sectors, seed and early stage activity, if any
- investment trends
- deal types
- sectors of interest
- valuations and trends
- deal stories from the trenches
- Is the VC model dead?
- JOBS act and its significance
- best practices for VC / angel collaboration
Exit Insight Series at Monthly Breakfasts
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July 25 – Rich Nelson, Managing Director – M&A, IAC Interactive
September 19 - Frank Dunleavy, Vice-Chairman, Cowen & Co.
October 24 – Lonne Jaffe, Senior Vice-President, Strategy, CA Technologies
November 28 - Zach Maurus, Head of Internet and New Media Investment Banking @ Stifel Nicolaus Weisel
December 19 - Adam Oliveri, Managing Director, Private Companies @ Second Market
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January 30 - Itzhak Fisher, Executive Vice President of M&A, Nielsen
February 27 - Keith Roberts, Partner & Head of Corporate Development @ Virgin Group
April 24 - Tom Sansone, CFO and Head of Corporate Development @ Gilt Group
May 22 - Teppo Paavaola, Head of Global Corporate Development @ PayPal
June 26 - Fabienne Gimenez, Managing Director, Strategy & Corporate Development - Standard & Poors / Capital IQ / S&P Indices
July 31 - Andrew Stern, Vice President, Corporate Development, F5
July 31 - Andrew Stern, Vice President, Corporate Development, F5
All will cover topics from the following:
- A background on yourself and your company; details on your business as a whole, as well as the many separate businesses that fall within it
- What types of businesses you are currently looking for in the M&A / strategic partnering / IB pipe – domains, technologies, utility provided, size
- How you see the landscape of your industry(ies) evolving, trends, business opportunities, investment trends
- Deal types – M&A, strategic investing
- Sectors of interest
- Valuations and trends and best practices learned in valuation and negotiations
- Deal stories from the trenches
- JOBS act and its significance for early stage exits
- What is really happening with OnRamp IPO's and finalizing Sec 506B legislation
- Best practices for Angel group collaboration with investment banks (re: onramps)
Recommended Reading
What Every Angel Investor Wants You to Know: An Insider Reveals How to Get Smart Funding for Your Billion Dollar Idea by Brian Cohen
Tech and the City: The Making of New York's Startup Community by Alessandro Piol
Other Investment & Entrepreneurial Education Programs:
New York Angels Education Series
General Assembly Education
Wilson Sonsini Entrepreneurial College
Get Control Of Your F.A.T. (Finance, Accounting and Tax) in Your Lean Startup
Term Sheet Information Session Webinars
Term Sheets Series 1 of 3
Term Sheets Series 2 of 3
Term Sheets Series 3 of 3
Please email us at info@newyorkangels.com if there are any additional New York City area education resources to add.
