AoA in the Community: November Activities

Having reached over 500 entrepreneurs with variations on the theme of our "10-Minute Pitch" clinic, we thought we'd list some of our pro bono speaking events this month. Feel free to contact us if you are a non-profit or academic institution looking to provide tools to your membership on how to effectively engage the investment community.

November 7, Science and Engineering Business Association, Entrepreneurship Week
“Perfect Pitch” workshop: 2-4 PM, Foege N130A.
In this hands-on workshop, the Alliance of Angels offered engineering students tips on how to structure a business plan and proposal, as well as how to use the language and concepts of business and investment to build a management team. We'll certainly keep an eye out for these entprepreneurial PhD's at the University of Washington's Business Plan Competition.

November 7, Venture Capital Investment Competition Class
Guest lecture at University of Washington, 6:30-7:30 PM
This course is led by Susan Sigl of Seapoint Ventures, and designed to prepare students for the Venture Capital Investment Competition. This now international competition has an 11-year history, and University of Washington teams have taken first place twice in the last three years. Helping students gear up to take back the championship, the Alliance of Angels offered their "Think Like an Investor" workshop to the class, comprised of both MBAs and engineering grad students. Students should be forewarned that should they succeed in winning the $10,000 purse, they'll also be stuck with the bar tab at the competition in lovely Chapel Hill.

November 10, 2007. American Society of Mechanical Engineers' Invention to Venture Workshop.
Seattle Sheraton Hotel, 9 AM- 5 PM
Hosted by the American Society of Mechanical Engineers and sponsored in part by the Technology Alliance, this all-day workshop was designed for the science, engineering, and technology communities, as a one-day "entrepreneurship boot camp" that teaches technology entrepreneurship basics. The AoA tailored its pitch clinic to a high-impact “Perfect Pitch" presentation, offered to to engineers, student teams, investors, and members of the ASME and NCIIA(National Collegiate Inventors & Innovators Alliance).

November 30, University of Puget Sound School of Business and Leadership
Guest lecture, 9AM-10AM, McIntyre Hall, Room 108
In our third visit to Professor Lynette Claire's classroom, we tailored our workshop to a group of undergraduate business students seeking to fine-tune taglines for their start-ups. The "Elevator Pitch" presentation has now been offered to some 60 UPS aspiring entrepreneurs.