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Exit Strategies workshop - March 1, 2012 at SFU Surrey (by SkyTrain)
for Business Owners, Investors and Companies in Fraser Valley and Metro Vancouver areas
Does your company have an Exit Strategy or Succession Plan of when, who and how much?
Investors should ask for it, Your partners must agree and your family should know.
Updated Dec 2011 List of Tech Acquisitions of Canadian Companies - 32 and counting - by Techvibes’s 2011 Acquisitions Tracker
Topics include:
- Why this is an excellent time to sell your business
- Options for your succession plan
- The types of buyers active today
- How to value your company
- How long it takes to sell a company, and a description of the optimum process
- The team you'll need to sell quickly and for the best price
- Myths, misperceptions and dirty secrets about selling companies like yours
- How to get multiple offers and complete your transaction
Why attend? Investors and Companies need an exit strategy plan before partnering with each other, while building the business and preparing for sale before any offer is received.
Our registration is closed, but there may be registration changes before the workshop date, so please email Bob@Angelforum.org to be placed on our wait list.
Who should attend: This full day unique Investor Ready workshop is targeted to Business Owners, Investors and Board Directors (know how and when your investment will payoff), Founders, CEOs and CFOs (the wrong exit strategy may scare off investors) and Advisors.
"The workshop was a compliment to the intelligence of the participants; in that, it progressively provided a practical and comprehensive tool kit for an Exit strategy." Garth Froese, CEO, PacificEast, Abbotsford
When: Thursday March 1, 2012, 7:30 am (check-in) to 5:30 pm. Register here now It is an 8 hour serious workshop (not 2-3 hour overview) that always sells out and later registrations cost more.
Can't make this date? The next one may be in 2013. Click here to be notified of future workshops.
Where: Room 5380 Galleria 5, SFU Surrey located at 250-13450 - 102nd Avenue (at King George Highway), Surrey. Easy parking or 5 minutes walking from SkyTrain (Surrey Central station). For driving from downtown, Vancouver airport, Victoria ferries and the Fraser Valley, click here for details on getting to SFU Surrey as well as Map / Parking.
Content & Speakers: click here for detailed agenda (subject to change): This workshop is designed to be highly interactive for all attendees in a confidential protected environment (no solicitations). The format will be a blend of presentations, war stories by local experts, with lots of time for Q&A and networking. It is an 8 hour serious workshop (not a 1 hour overview) with a 150+ page workbook.
Every time this workshop has been offered in downtown Vancouver it has sold out. Fall 2011 sold out earlier than ever before, prompting us to offer the Exit Strategies Workshop for the first time in Surrey.
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Workshop leader:Basil Peters: http://www.BasilPeters.com/ - Dr. Peters has been a CEO in Vancouver and in Silicon Valley. The company he founded in grad school, Nexus Engineering, grew to be the second largest manufacturer of cable television headends in the world. Since Nexus was sold, Basil has founded, and run portfolios for a hedge fund, venture capital fund and angel fund. He is passionate about entrepreneurship and believes the world would be a better place if more young people decided to be entrepreneurs. Basil has received the Entrepreneur of the Year award, Canada Awards Silver Medal in Entrepreneurship, BC Science and Engineering Gold Medal and Business Leader of the Year awards.
"Seminar design was very good. Fast Moving. Topic sequence was good and comprehensive. Held audience attention well. Length of each presentation was nicely short. Presenters stuck to their allotted times well." Adrian Palmer, Investor and Director, Vancouver
Other speakers: previously Steven Lukas (Fasken Martineau) Axel Christiansen (Business Development Bank - Subordinated Financing)
Organizer: Bob Chaworth-Musters has an extensive background in corporate and international finance plus investment management in Vancouver, Middle East and London, England. In 1997, he started the ANGEL Forum, one of the largest & oldest angel groups in Canada and he is a Founding 100 Member of Canada's National Angel Organization. At the Angel Forum, usually 20+ pre-screened companies seeking equity funding up to $1 million, deliver "live" presentations to 50+ pre-screened investors. Since 1998, it has offered Investor Ready™ workshops for entrepreneurs and investors.
Networking: All attendees are asked to stand-up and introduce themselves in 20 seconds (suggested content could include the name of a company that you are an investor in or founder of and a one key Exit issue you want to learn about). This is great for networking among attendees.
"A very great seminar and one of the main reasons was I didn't get bored because the speakers kept changing and the pace kept us all entertained." Jayne Seagrave, CEO, Vancouver Tool Company
Basil Peter's book (softcover or ebook): Early Exits: Exit Strategies for Angel Investors and Entrepreneurs is included in your registration fee.
Handout Materials: A 150+ page workbook of the presentations and resource materials will be provided at check-in to aid in your note taking at the workshop. For privacy reasons, attendee information will not be available except to Sponsors.
Professional Development: This workshop from 8am to 5pm, usually is accepted for PD credits with professional associations. Let us know if not.
Bring a Friend or Associate: If you register a second person on your registration, their cost is reduced by 10%.
Silver Sponsors:
Supporter: Canadian Innovation Commercialization Program
What is the Cost to Attend? This is an 8 hour serious workshop (not a 1 hour overview) with a 150+ page Workbook. Space is limited and is on a first come basis before February 24 (our workbook printing deadline). The registration fee for this full-day, all-inclusive workshop includes the Early Exits book, the Workbook, coffee and muffins at check-in, mid morning coffee; sandwich lunch in the workshop room and mid afternoon refreshments. At the 2011 workshop, 12% of attendees thought the workshop fee below was a bargain and 86% thought it was fair.
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Registration Fee - per person
Tax deductible plus 12% HST, payable by
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Investor, Entrepreneur or Advisor
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$350 |
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Registration: Use "Exit Strategies workshop" link during registration (click here) - please do not log out until you have paid by credit card.
Amend your existing registration?
- Use the User ID & Password emailed from system-mail@confmanager.com after you registered to log in here,
- then use Workshop page link on the top row to return to this page to click here and amend your registration.
Any problems? email us bob at angelforum.org
Important to Workshop Attendees:
- Bring a friend - For extra people on the same registration, get 10% off their registration.
- Seating is limited and is on a first completed registration basis. There is no on-site registration.
- Only VISA and MasterCard (no Amex) credit cards are accepted to reserve a seat (no Cheques).
- If payment is not completed online within 24 hours, a seat will not be reserved.
- No refund or credit within 60 days of the event date, but another person may attend in your place.
- Registrants who fail to attend will not receive a refund or credit.
- A workbook of the PowerPoint presentations and Articles is included for note taking
- Coffee/tea available early and mid morning with cold drinks at mid afternoon. Sandwich Lunch is included
- Your payment will be receipted immediately via e-mail from system-mail@confmanager.com.
- You will receive by e-mail further details approx. 1 week before the Workshop date.
Site updated Feb 5, 2012
Updated Dec 2011 List of Tech Acquisitions of Canadian Companies - 32 and counting - by Techvibes’s 2011 Acquisitions Tracker
Who were the leading acquirers of Canadian technology companies over past 4 years? Google (5), RIM (5), Microsoft (3), Transcontinental (3), Intel (2), and Salesforce (2) according to Techvibes comprehensive list of 69 Canadian Tech Acquisitions (16 were from BC).
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