Investment
Conferences
Connecticut
Development Authority
Starting and Growing
Your Small Business Workshops
October 31, 2001
Quinnipiac University
Hamden, CT
www.quinnipiac.edu
Early Stage Investors Group
November 1, 2001
Philadelphia, PA
www.gpvg.com
Southwest Capital Conference
November 7 - 8, 2001
Online
http://scc2001.itrade
fair.net/
Global Venture Investors
Conference 2001
November 11 - 13, 2001
Los Angeles, CA
www.gvia.org
Technology Capital Network
at MIT
November 29,2001
Cambridge, MA
www.tcnmit.org
Investments-Information
Nanotechnology
December 4, 2001
Seville, Spain
www.i2nano.com/
register_interest.htm
Arizona VC Conference
December 5 - 7, 2001
Phoenix, AZ
www.azventure
capitalconf.com
Technology Forum
Series
December 13, 2001
Biscayne Bay,FL
www.blgventures.com
EVCA International
Investors Conference
March 13 - 14, 2002
Geneva, Switzerland
www.evca.com
In
Silicon Vally and other prime tech centers, investors are
funneling seed money and early-stage investment funding into
emerging high-tech companies. To draw some of that start-up
capital, companies should have their intellectual property
portfolio in line.
Certain
businesses put the chances of success in your favor. Other
businesses stack the chances of success against you. Here is a
list of seven things that you should consider when starting your
own company.
For
more than a year, U.S. and European investors have witnessed the
decline of equity markets and watched their once-healthy
portfolios take on a more emaciated appearance. But things could
be worse for these investors: They could have invested in Japan
throughout the 1990s.
In
this issue of Profile, Angel Investor News focuses on Gary
Mathias, the former Equity Vice President for General Electric
Capital and co-founder of an investment boutique banking firm, who
has worked both sides of the aisle as a private investor and
consultant to entrepreneurs.
Company:
LifeTime Pharmaceuticals, Inc., Biotechnology, Seeking $5-10
million, located in Maryland
The
term "biometric authentication" refers to the automatic
identification, or identity verification, of living individuals
using physiological and behavioral characteristics. Biometric
authentication is the"automatic", "real-time",
"non-forensic" subset of the broader field of human
identification.
In
Unleashing the Ideavirus, Seth Godin writes that we live in a
world where consumers actually resist marketing. So how do
entrepreneurs market their burgeoning companies? Godin recommends
that we stop marketing at people. The idea is to build an
environment where consumers market to each other. Godin calls this
unleashing the Ideavirus to sell a company's goods and services.
