Founders are from Mars, Angels are from...Pluto?!
The Alternate Realities of Entrepreneurs and Investors
PLUS the worldwide sneak preview of Angelsoft: the first software platform for angel investing!
It?s a wonder that any angel investments get made at all, given the very different ways in which entrepreneurs and investors view many of the basic issues they encounter. David S. Rose, who is both a serial entrepreneur and a serial angel investor, will discuss half a dozen areas in which people on opposite sides of the table can look at the same facts and draw wildly divergent conclusions. Learn when a rejection is personal...and when it?s not. Understand how figures don?t lie...but how they can lie poles apart. See why what one side thinks is a killer presentation...just killed the deal. Know why you?ve got a tougher sales job ahead of you if you look for angel funding at that time of the month. Above all, find out how to come to a meeting of the minds by making sure that the angel and the entrepreneur understand each other?s assumptions.
David S. Rose is an entrepreneurial executive and investor with extensive experience in high technology and communications, angel investing, finance and government. He was named by Inc. magazine to the 1998 Inc 500 list as CEO of one of the fastest growing private companies in America. Red Herring magazine has described him as "a patriarch of New York?s Silicon Alley" and Crain's New York Business named him one of the City's 25 most influential technology executives. During the course of his career, Rose has been responsible for raising tens of millions of dollars as an entrepreneur, and investing millions more as an angel. He has supervised the creation of an intellectual property portfolio of issued patents appraised at over $100 million and negotiated both domestic and international corporate mergers and acquisitions. In 1997 he was honored as a finalist for Ernst & Young's Entrepreneur of the Year Award in the New York New Media category; in 1984, Time magazine profiled him in its "Computer as Man of the Year" issue; and he has been the subject of numerous interviews and articles in print and electronic media. Rose is Chairman of the Board, and a founding member, of New York Angels, Inc., the leading angel investment consortium in New York City. Through his investment fund, Rose Tech Ventures, he provides capital and management expertise to promising early stage companies. On behalf of his own technology firms he has personally raised over $75 million in venture, strategic and institutional capital.
With over two decades of hands-on experience in founding, managing and funding diverse companies, Rose is actively involved in mentoring and advising other entrepreneurs and corporate executives. He was a Founding Member of the New York New Media Association and is a frequent guest speaker at graduate business schools including Harvard, Yale, Columbia and NYU. He is also a mentor and judge of YaleUniversity?s annual business plan competitions and has judged the annual Students in Free Enterprise national finals. As a regular lecturer for New York?s Industrial Technology Assistance Corporation he has taught the Venture Financing and Deal Negotiation section of the FasTrak Tech course since 1997. Rose is the Founder and CEO of Angelsoft, a company developing the definitive platform for early-stage investing, and Chairman of KoolSpan, Inc. a network security developer with disruptive technology. He also serves as an active early stage investor in companies including Urban HotSpots, Zero-G, SignStorey, DigitWireless, Goodmail, Feedster, NowPublic, Spotlight Data and Content Directions. Prior to founding AirMedia Corporation in 1988, for which he served as CEO for over ten years, his career included over fifteen years in real estate development, government, teaching and urban planning. Rose was co-founder and Chairman of The Computer Classroom, one of the world?s first computer training firms, and spent over ten years developing technology-enhanced commercial and residential real estate in New York, Washington, DC and Boston with the firm of Rose Associates, Inc. Earlier, he served as Deputy Director of the New York office of US Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan, where he was the Senator?s Special Assistant for high technology and urban planning. A native New Yorker, Rose has a B.A. from YaleUniversity and an M.B.A. in Finance from ColumbiaUniversityBusinessSchool. He is a graduate of the New York City public school system and is profiled in Marquis Who?s Who in America, Who?s Who in the World and Who?s Who in Science and Industry.
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