Okay folks, there is new news for the upcoming Startup Riot which is only 2 weeks (!) away.
First, I’ve opened back up applications to present. There are still limited slots remaining but I’ve had a lot of people asking me to look at this company or that as a favor. So to be fair, I’m opening up the application for everyone on the site. One change though - along with your application you must submit your four slides (details below) along with your application. Based on those slides I’ll decide if you get a slot to present or not.
So if you want to submit slides to possibly present here are the rules. Your slides can’t have any animation, audio, video, or anything else to make them anything but static slides. They also must be submitted in Powerpoint (PPT, not the new PPTX) format. My suggestion is to cover your team, your product/service, and what you’ve accomplished and/or what you plan on doing.
Second, details will be coming soon (next day or so hopefully) about the after-party. Yes, there is going to be an after-party for Startup Riot. It’ll start right at the end of the event at 5pm and probably run until 8pm or later (depending on the final venue). Regardless of where we hold this, it will be somewhere in Atlantic Station so everyone can walk from the conference to the party.
So plan on attending the after-party if you come to the event or even if you don’t. We’ve got an awesome sponsor for this part of the day and this should rock.
UPDATE: fixed my suggestion above to include what I actually suggest for your slides. It was cut off before. Whoops!
Today I went to the Angel Capital Education Foundation’s event Starting An Angel Organization which was graciously hosted by the folks from the Georgia Centers of Innovation. The event was pretty interesting although I think it was more useful to the folks from Augusta, Gainesville, and Valdosta who are trying to start up angel groups in their cities.
During the event, I heard one interesting confirmation. During a conversation one of the participants agreed with my assessment of fund raising in Atlanta and said:
Yeah, the [fund raising] atmosphere in Atlanta has stagnated.
Wow. People from outside of Atlanta clearly see the situation here has stagnated but there are many folks here who just refuse to believe it. I’ve gotten numerous emails from local investors who say they just don’t agree with my assessment of the local fund raising atmosphere.
Am I crazy? What do you think of the Atlanta fund raising atmosphere?
Published on January 15, 2008
in Events.
Knox Massey made a mention on his blog for an event called “Starting an Angel Organization” (yes, even after all that I’m still willing to make this reference). The idea with the event is to help folks who might want to start a new angel group or join an existing angel group. Like I’ve discussed many times, more access to capital will help improve the ability for local entrepreneurs to focus on value creation instead of fund raising. Also, if entrepreneurs believe they can raise money and be based here, they won’t be tempted to leave.
Unfortunately, I heard about this event too late. The deadline to apply for this event is today. I’ve sent in my materials and should be good to go but if you’re at all interested (the event is on January 24th and it runs all day) go and register right away!
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