Attendee Registration Open-TiE Austin Funding Forum 2009 is on May 12th
TiE Austin Funding Forum 2009 is on May 12th
Attendee Registration Open
Register Online or early by May 8 to save $10
A Truly Unique Event in Austin
Hear some of the best ideas by companies before anyone else know about them! See new startups pitch and secure fundingin real time! Get introduced to VC's and angel investors (with money), bankers, senior professional's without paying an arm and a leg or doing the sweat work to make the initial contact. TiE Austin Funding Forum is back again, this time even bigger and better. A handful of Angels and VCs are gearing up to listen to the top business pitches. You really don't want to miss out on this one.
We have received some great business plans this year. The Top 12 of the shortlisted business plans will present on May 12th.
Be there at TiE Austin's Funding Forum as an observer and Watch how company's pitch for funding, Where the VC and Angel communities are looking to invest, Watch how company's get GRILLED. See and hear from the upcoming startups, Build your own network in Austin's elite entrepreneurial community
Where: Atrium, Commons Building, JJ Pickle Research Center,
10100 Burnet Road, Austin, Texas, 78758
When: Tuesday, May 12, 2009, 5.30 PM onwards
Registration:
Website: www.austin.tie.org
TiE Members/Student Members- $10 (Online), $ 20 (Onsite)
Non Members: $ 20 (Online OR BEFORE May 8), after May 8 or onsite $ 30
Not a member of TiE Austin? Sign up on May 12th to become a member and the event is FREE. See a $30 saving immediately. Bring a friend along to the event, and get an additional $10 off your annual membership fee- a $40 savings!
General Membership - $100/Year
Student Membership - $20/Year (Student ID required at events)
Agenda:
5:30 - 6:00: Networking ,Registration & table assignments
6:00 - 6:30: Welcome & Sponsor talk
6:45 - 7:15: Company presentations (Round 1)
7:15 - 7:45: Company presentations (Round 2)
7:45 - 8:00: Break
8:00 - 8:30: Company presentations (Round 3)
8:30 - 9:00: Company presentations (Round 4)
9:00 - 9:30: Audience Q&A
* Twelve (12) companies will be presenting at the event; there will be 6 tables with 6 table moderators. Each table will have 2-3 panel members, the presenting companies and 1 table moderator.
* The presentations at each table are broken into 4 time slots. There will be 30 minute presentations, so the panel members will be providing feed back to 4 different companies at their table. This will give the presenting companies the most value possible, as well as the expose a broader variety of companies to the panel.
* During the company presentation part of the event, audience members will be there as observers only and will be asked NOT to participate. The audience Q&A session will be towards the end of the event.
* There is no expectation of confidentiality at this Forum because it is a public event.
Partial listing of Investment organizations:
* Access Venture Partners
* Austin Technology Incubator
* Austin Ventures
* Central Texas Angle Network
* Hunt Ventures
* Origin Partners
* Ring Investments
* Gefinor Ventures
* Triton Ventures
* DLA Piper
. Richards, Rodriguez & Skeith, L.L.P
* Chase
* IBM
* TiE &.more
For more information visit www.austin.tie.org
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Event Sponsors :Richards, Rodriguez & Skeith, L.L.P
Comments
Hi John, Appreciate your
Hi John,
Appreciate your feedback.
Why we have $ 100/year membership as a criteria to present Biz plans at Funding Forum:
1. It aids in getting serious motivated candidates for Funding forum.
2. TiE is been organizing Funding Forum for the past 4 years with quality Investors , VC's, banker's, academicians in UT premise.
3. TiE is a Not- for- Profit organization, infact the world's largest non-profit fostering entrepreneurship. Apart from discounted rates for all TiE events, $ 100/year gives following FREE services
a. Mentoring services
b. Access to Microsoft Biz Spark program,
c. Networking events
d. A chance to present your Biz Plan's to VC's, Banker's and Angel investor's without paying an arm and leg or doing the sweat work to make the initial contact.
e. Access to member's in 53 chapters across 12 countries.
So you can see a $ 100/ Year/ Member is more of a benefit to an individual and in turn to the local economy on a larger scale ( If the member goes ahead and start's a venture) than to a NON-PROFIT( TiE)Organization.
I will be happy to answer any of your queries. Please email me at ed.austin@austin.tie.org
Regards
Binitha Surendran
TiE Austin
Membership is $100/year, and
Membership is $100/year, and required both to attend the event and to pitch.
It seems logical to me that requiring membership to pitch ideas could limit the pool of submissions, perhaps more to the benefit of the organization than to the local economy.
Granted, $100 does seem pretty trivial when seeking millions, but so does buying a lottery ticket, and that requires a lot less work.
I'd appreciate your comments.
- John