Thank you for attending one or more PHX East Valley Angel Investor Workshop sessions. Below you will find the links to ALL 6 presentations brought to you by Jim Goulka of Arizona Tech Investors.

October

Discussed the overview of Angel Investing, shared success stories of local startups and panel discussion full of Angel Investing advice.

The PHX East Valley is home to some of Arizona’s top startups. Hear the stories of how they started and how local angel investors helped accelerate them to success by investing in their newly formed businesses. And meet founders of some local startups early on their paths to offer new products to solve customer problems.

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November

Discussed how to evaluate a startup business when looking to diversify your investment portfolio.

It wasn’t all that long ago that we lived without Google, Amazon, Facebook, or Uber. Yet all of these changed the world. Each started out as a brainstorm by a few individuals that were first funded by Angels before becoming the most valuable companies on earth. Their Angel Investors and current Angel Investors use the same techniques to evaluate opportunities — learn these techniques.

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December

Discussed methods that help investors determine if a company is worth their investment.

Angel Investors are scarce and entrepreneurs seeking capital are abundant. That means that investors can select which companies are attractive enough to invest in. “Attractive Enough” has two parts:  the company prospects have to be good (as discussed in Session 2) and the economic outcome must be sufficiently high to justify the allocation of funds to a particular opportunity. Learn the techniques for valuing opportunities that have no direct history and where to each opportunity fits into a portfolio of investment opportunities — Learn these techniques.

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January

Discussed de-risking through deal terms.

Investing in a startup is not like investing in a NYSE or NASDAQ listed company: once in, you’re in for an extended period.  Since Angels can’t get out of an investment quickly, learn how they structure their investments to reduce the risk and help a company become successful.

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Feb

Discussed “Top 4” trends happening with investing.

Startups are emerging in Arizona in software, semiconductors, medical devices and other fields all the time.  Arizona is not Silicon Valley and Silicon Valley is not the entire U.S.  Some trends apply everywhere; others are localized, and all of them matter. Learn which comparisons are important and which are not. And learn how Angels and VCs are dependent upon each other… to a point.

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March

Discussed how to begin investing as an Angel.

Individuals invest as Angels in several ways: alone or together in groups sharing intelligence. They can be active or passive. They can have a little of each. Learn the differences and how to take action that suits you.

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Our next workshop session series will begin May 1st in Gilbert Arizona. Details are forthcoming.