Venture Capital firms are flush with money and want to put it to work. You believe your latest idea will change the world as we know it. A match made in heaven? No problem? Not so fast!. There are thousands of entrepreneurs churning business plans that never get funded or even reviewed by the VCs. What are they looking for? How should you prepare to make an impression on them?

The presenters in this session, One VC and One Entrepreneur will share their thoughts on how to go about launching your idea successfully. You will learn about various stages of starting your business such as testing your idea, building a winning team, selecting the right VCs, understanding the VC lingo, writing a business plan, negotiating with VC, selecting a board and leveraging the vast network of VCs.

This workshop session will feature one Angel/Venture Capital Investor and one Start-up Entrepreneur who will describe their experiences in financing start-up companies and how to prepare the start-up for initial funding.

The Angel/Venture Capital investor will describe what seed investors are looking for in a new company and some of the screening mechanisms that Angels and VCs utilize.

The experienced start-up entrepreneur will describe the search for seed capital and what a start-up executive might expect during the interactions with Angels and/or VCs.

After brief presentations from the workshop leaders, they will take questions from the audience.