http://conceptequity.com/blog Thu, 26 Aug 2010 16:38:59 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Chicago Internet Entrepreneur Success Experience For Growing Internet Companies  www.chicagoiese.com Wednesday, December 08, 2010 8:15 AM - Thursday, December 09, 2010 7:00 PM (Central Time) Join other highly successful Internet Entrepreneurs at the ultimate event to help take your company to extraordinary new heights of success! The IESE is bringing together awesome presenters, ... http://conceptequity.com/blog/?p=55   Each month three entrepreneurs seeking capital pitch to the BNC Venture Capital Group. Typically, they want to raise between $500k and $5MM.  Amounts can be smaller or greater.  Our goal is to have the most fundable and promising early-stage companies present to our group.  We favor companies in our selection process that ... http://conceptequity.com/blog/?p=65 When: Tuesday, June 22 3:30 p.m. Initial Presentations 6:00 p.m. Keynote Speaker | Final Presentations Where: NIU Outreach Center-Rockford, 8500 E. State Street Registration Deadline: June 10 What is FastPitch? Please join us for our fourth annual FastPitch Competition. In three minutes entrepreneurs pitch their ... http://conceptequity.com/blog/?p=43 My client called today saying that his investor has asked for his Private Placement Memorandum (PPM).  We discussed what should go into his PPM in addition to the business plan.  http://wistechnology.com/articles/3935/  The client is well prepared with a good business plan including an investor risk section. One of the items we ... http://conceptequity.com/blog/?p=39 The premier event of the MIT Enterprise Forum Chicago season, the Whiteboard Challenge is an exciting contest of ideas. This is the essence of MIT: world-renowned for the number of businesses that the university's organizations incubate. The finalists have been selected from 89 submissions this year. Join us to watch their ... http://conceptequity.com/blog/?p=33 The finance bill includes changes to the definition of accredited investor and requires that any private placement be filed for review with the SEC for 120 days.  I encourage you to contact your legislators to make sure that the changes to the finance bill with regard to Angel investing be ... http://conceptequity.com/blog/?p=30 You may have heard that investors don't want to read the entire business plan.  They also don't want to read an 8 page executive summary.  If you make it interesting and easy to read, they might read your one or two page summary.  Use bullet points, graphics, and simple communications ... http://conceptequity.com/blog/?p=27 One of the biggest challenges for the investor pitch is showing the investors how they will make money.  Most entrepreneurs fail to show this in an easily understandable fashion when pitching to http://conceptequity.com/BNCVCGroup.htm. On 1/5/10, I put together a financial summary (https://conceptequity.sharefile.com/d-s0feaaf368864535b) to help entrepreneurs include this in their pitch and ... http://conceptequity.com/blog/?p=17 The option to retain the company should be shared with the investor. This will make it less attractive to some investors. In the case of a hold, will you be 1.  Paying dividends to the investor or 2.  Offering preferred shares with an attached interest rate, or 3.  Buying back ... http://conceptequity.com/blog/?p=12 On 11/23/09, Facebook will start using your photos in ads that will appear on the profile page of your contacts. If you want to prevent this from happening, do the following: Settings > Privacy Settings > News Feed and Wall > Facebook Ads tab > Choose "No one" and Save ... http://conceptequity.com/blog/?p=11