Ten Steps to Angel Financing March 6, 2008

Angel financing is often the most critical step in a company’s early development. If you are thinking about, planning or in the process of raising an Angel round of financing this step-by-step information will be extremely useful.

Join Venture Lab speakers Christopher Hurley, Principal, Beacon Law Advisors, and Shawn Englund, Founder and CEO, LearnLive Technologies as they identify and explain ten steps to angel financing.

Speakers:
Christopher Hurley – Principal – Beacon Law Advisors, PLLC

Chris is a co-founder and principal of Beacon Law Advisors, PLLC, and represents technology start-up companies and the people and entities that finance and acquire them in Seattle, the Bay Area, and Southern California.

Having begun his career in Palo Alto in 1993 (Gray Cary now DLA Piper) and moving to Seattle in 1998 (VLG now Heller Ehrman), Chris has worked on over a hundred startup companies, countless buy-side and sell-side merger sand acquisitions, hundreds of private placements, dozens of joint ventures, several fund formations, and nearly a dozen public offerings (company and underwriter representations).

Prior to co-founding Beacon Law, Chris was CFO and COO for a mobile software platform company (ultimately sold to a Canadian public company) and was responsible for raising $8.5 million of venture and angel financing. Chris received his J.D. (cum laude) from Boston College Law School, his MBA (Finance) from Boston University’s Graduate School of Management, and completed his LLM in Taxation from the University of Washington School of Law. Chris is licensed to practice in California and Washington.

Shawn Englund – Founder and CEO – LearnLive Technologies

Shawn Englund founded LearnLive Technologies in November of 2003. LearnLive is the leading provider of e-learning delivery platforms servicing the Continued Professional Education (CE) markets of Legal and Accounting. LearnLive Technologies focuses on providing Accounting Firms and Law Firms a live and on-demand e-learning platform that automates the CE certification process for internally and externally delivered content while creating and engaging learning experience for participating professionals.

Shawn raised the financing for the start-up of LearnLive Technologies thru angel investment.

Prior to starting LearnLive, Shawn was the VP of Sales for Pro2Net. Pro2Net, a Seattle-based company, started in 1997 and whose business model was to become the “online Wall Street Journal” for professional vertical markets. Shawn started the online education division at Pro2Net. In 2001 Pro2Net was sold to SmartPros Inc., a New York based publically held company.

Location : One Union Square Boardroom
600 University St., First Level
(Lower lobby, 6th Avenue level, behind the escalator)
Seattle, WA 98101
Date & Time : March 6, 2008 - 5:30pm - 8:00pm

$25

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