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Venture Financing Roundtable
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Testimonial of the Month
"Rob:
Please accept my formal appreciation to you and your staff
for inviting me to the White Board session and Dr. Andrade´s
presentation. I found the White Board session to be a
very powerful experience. A Venture Model for our work
is emerging in ways that I simply had not expected. Please
extend my thanks to your staff members who were so generous
with their time and creativity.
Still, my budget for this activity is dearly restricted,
but your program clearly justifies the investment. Please
add me to the list of attendees for the next session.
Again, thank you for your assistance in helping me articulate
this work."
- Daniel R. Robles
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Coming this spring!
2004 Roundtable Dates!
May 4, 2004
May 18, 2004
June 1, 2004
June 15, 2004
2004 Seattle University
Business
Plan Competition
Winner gets $10,000
Candidates Attend Venture
Financing Roundtable for Expert Coaching & Equity Marketing
Education
Live Venture Consulting!
Investors + Entrepreneurs
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The Venture Financing Roundtable
Last Tuesday's program featured Chad Waite of OVP,
and Dr. Perry Fell, of Seattle
Genetics. In a tag-team ad-lib performance, Chad and
Dr. Fell took turns relating their experiences in building Seattle
Genetics from the very inception that required over $37M in
venture financing between the Series A and B rounds, $51M in
an IPO on NASDAQ, for a total of $150M. Time flew by as stories
were revealed of hard, critical decisions that made the ultimate
difference in the success of building shareholder value.
It was abundantly clear that a) not all investors are alike,
and b) the most critical decisions made in the Series A round
carried the greatest, long term impact that has lead to this
outstanding success story. Chad and Perry were most generous
with their time in the pre-session white board exercises advising
one startup, while also staying afterwards to answer questions
that were generated during the presentation.
See Chad and Perry's Video clip.
Get the entire 60 min video here.
Coming Tuesday, April 20, 2004
Register Now - Seats are limited.
Title: Managing Investor
Expectations for an Acquisition
Kevin Cable, Cascadia Capital LLC
Martin Tobias, Ignition Partners
Guest Host: Warner Wong, former director, WSU SBDC
Live Venture Consulting: 5:30 to 7pm "on the
white boards"
Speaker Presentations: 7pm to 9pm
To get funded today, venture investors expect a clear sense
of the exit that will enable them to get their capital back
and post gains to their limited partners. Most entrepreneurs
seeking capital have a sense that a merger or acquisition by
another firm would be the "most likely exit." Investors need
to know that the entrepreneur truly understands what this entails,
for some entrepreneurs may continue to stay with the company after the acquisition while
the investor exits ahead of them.
Kevin and Martin will give us a first hand account of how to manage investors
expectations for an acquisition.
Their program will cover the following topics crucial to success:
1. Understanding the perspectives of acquirers and investors
2. Evolutions of the capital structure that will affect an acquisition.
3. Process of an acquisition and the dynamic at each stage.
4. Expectations of deal structure, what different things mean.
5. Post transaction integration.
Learn how to successfully raise captial at each round by managing
expectations towards a successful exit.
About: Kevin Cable
Executive Vice President, Founder
Kevin Cable leads strategic development for Cascadia Capital
including PR, marketing, and general business development. In
addition, Kevin focuses on development of regional relationships
for the firm throughout North America. Kevin plays a critical
role in the identification of prospective opportunities across
the firm's investment banking focus areas: corporate finance,
mergers & acquisitions, strategic advisory services, and capital
market services. He brings deep operational experience, having
served more than 14 years on the executive teams of several
technology companies, including Numera Software, which he co-founded
and led as CEO. Kevin has served as a director of the Washington
Software Alliance, the Alliance of Angels, and several private
technology companies. Kevin holds a B.S. in Cell and Molecular
Biology from the University of Washington.
About Martin
Martin is an Ignition Venture Partner. He works on Ignition's infrastructure software investments.
Prior to Ignition, Martin spent more than 15 years in operating roles in technology companies, including four years at Loudeye Technologies and six years with Microsoft.
Martin was the CEO of Loudeye Technologies Inc, which he founded in 1997 and took public in March of 2000. Through his leadership, the company grew to be one of the largest providers of audio and video enabling solutions for the Internet. Martin developed many strategic partnerships and customers including Microsoft, Real Networks, NBC, CBS, AOL, Universal, Sony, Warner Bros. and EMI.
Prior to founding Loudeye, Martin spent six years with Microsoft where he played a key role in the launch of Select 3.0 (the volume licensing program for corporations) and developed the companyÃs channel policies to allow electronic software distribution (ESD). He also led operational projects critical to Microsoft InternationalÃs worldwide expansion, particularly in Europe, Scandinavia and Australia.
Prior to his time at Microsoft, Martin was with Andersen Consulting (Accenture). Martin is an active investor in high tech companies and participates on a number of boards.
Programs that feature VCs tend to sell out, so please register in advance.
- Call me if you have questions. - Rob
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VenLogic provides special Venture Assessment Program for the Venture All Star Participants.
Get ahead by being prepared.
Learn how investors look at your deal - BEFORE you meet them.
Includes:
Preview Edition DVD
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Venture Assessment Workshops Available
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Investment Forum
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Spring 2004 Calendar:
May 4 - TBD
May 18 - TBD
June 1 - Karen Huh, IDG Ventures
June 15 - Kevin Gabelein, Managing Director, Fluke Venture
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