Seattle 2.0 Blog

January 10, 2008

    Yesterday the Washington's State Association (WSA) started accepting applications for their annual Investment Forum that happens in April. Different from previous years, they joined forces with the Alliance of Angels to get more early-stage companies showcasing their new idea to investors.

    This is not the place to present your company if all you have is an idea, but if you have a beta product or is about to launch a beta product on the next 6 months or so, this might be a great opportunity to get to present to a bunch of investors at once.

    From my own (painful) experience, talking with investors takes a lot of time and resources and if you can give a presentation to several investors at once is definitely a time saver. The flip side is that if you screw up your presentation you screw up for all of them at once. To prevent that, make sure you presented to a least 2 investors (at separate occasions) and get their feedback so you can adapt the presentation/pitch to what investors are more interested in knowing.

    Anyway, the deadline to submit your application is February 8. Leah Van Zee (lvanzee at-wsa.org) is the event organizer and can answer specific questions not addressed at the site.

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