Something's missing in Canada's tech community - the chance to informally interact with VCs, learn about what it is exactly that they do and how the funding process works.

The VC Roundtable series aims to fill this gap, by hosting small (free!) get togethers across Canada's major cities where Rick Segal, JLA Ventures Partner and VC blogger (http://ricksegal.typepad.com) will walk through what getting involved with VCs is all about.

What To Expect:

• 25 attendee limit
  
• Informal/Free 
• About 2 - 3 hours in length
• Information on VC/Angels and the process
• Sample Term sheets, documents, business plans, PowerPoints
• Example Pitch or Pitches to show what's interesting/good/bad
• Lots of time for questions

What a VC Roundtable Isn't:

• Demo/Startup/FooBar/Camp/Conference/MESH/MASH
• VCs trashing your ideas
• You trashing somebody else's ideas
• Hours of PowerPoint slides

What You Will Leave With:

• An understanding of the VC world as I see it (and I am a user group of one!)
  
• A good set of reference documents/examples/materials
• Some of your top of mind questions answered
• A better feel for the VC industry and if raising third party capital is right for you
• A good place to start

Monday, April 21, 2008 from 04:00 PM - 06:00 PM (PT)

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Bootup Labs
The Landing, Suite 350
375 Water Street
Vancouver, British Columbia
Canada

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Rick Segal

Prior to joining JLA Ventures, Rick was President and Chief Executive Officer of Microforum, a leader in providing integrated e-business solutions in a wide array of industry verticals. Rick joined Microforum in July 2000 from Chapters Online Inc., a leading Canadian e-commerce company, where he held the position of President and Chief Operating Officer (1997-2000). Rick began working with Chapters Inc. in 1997 as a consultant on the technical development of the Chapters e-commerce venture. Based on this successful collaboration, he was named the President of Chapters Online in August 1998.
Prior to joining Chapters Online, Rick was a partner at the international firm of TMS Consulting from 1996 to 1998. Rick worked at Microsoft Corporation in Redmond, Washington from 1992 until 1996 as Director of technical services for the Internet Customer Unit. Rick is also the author of four books on Network Management and Windows software development.
Rick serves as a director of Planeteye, HealthUnity, b5media, MusicIP Corporation, Sirit Inc., and Truition Marketplace Solutions.
To learn more: http://ricksegal.typepad.com

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