Get the Scoop on Angel Financing in 2013

Success Strategies for Raising Funds in Today's Investment Climate

What is the current climate for emerging business investment? Is there a Series A crunch making it harder for new ventures to find funding? Are we in the midst of an angel investment fueled bubble like the VC fueled bubble of the dot com boom and subsequent bust? What do trends in angel investment mean for the Silicon Valley economy and entrepreneurs?

Veteran angel investor, Ron Weissman, recently featured in the Silicon Valley Business Journal’s article, Angel of the Apocalypse (http://www.bizjournals.com/sanjose/news/2013/01/24/the-angels-of-the-apocalypse.html), will share his view as he tackles these questions and describes the latest funding techniques involving super angels, incubators, accelerators, and crowd funding.

Join the discussion with Ron to get the scoop on angel financing in 2013 and the answers you need to develop successful strategies for today’s investment climate.

Speaker

http://photos4.meetupstatic.com/photos/event/e/8/a/a/event_202499562.jpegDr. Ron Weissman, Chairman, Software SIG, Band of Angels

Ron Weissman has over 25 years of experience in technology investment and management that includes investment in or advisement to more than 60 companies and serving on the boards of more than 25 emerging businesses.

His current investment focus is on software, analytics, SaaS, text technologies and healthcare IT. His most recent angel investments include Care In Sync (healthcare patient management), Practice Fusion (electronic medical records), Trustnode (insurance benefits education), Jbara (customer installed base revenue optimization) and Taulia (dynamic invoicing and payment management).

Ron was one of three industry leaders profiled in the 2003-2006 Price Waterhouse Coopers Technology Forecast. Ron is a Fulbright Scholar and member of Phi Beta Kappa. He serves on the advisory board of Silicon Valley Association of Startup Entrepreneurs (SVASE) and the Venture Capital Task Force.