Tuesday, March 6
See schedule below for times
Hilton Austin Hotel - 6th Floor

Several full and half-day programs will be offered on March 6th, each with registration in addition to the main ACA Summit. Registration for these programs is available via the Summit Registration page, but additional fees apply. The programs include:


Technology & Investing Showcase
8:00 am - 4:00 pm
$200 Registration

This year, ACA is pleased to offer a full day to meet, to connect, and to learn from leading technology companies, researchers and investors in small group sessions. Come wearing your angel investor hat, but bring others, including your hats for business development for your portfolio companies as well as your own company. Come with your thinking hat, ready to learn and to share. Each session's host will be looking to tell you about their experience and their company's activities as well as to learn from you.

Meetings will be organized into six tracks, and participants will be asked to bid a limited number of points to be able to attend specific meetings in each track or across tracks. Total registration to the showcase is limited to 100 people.etails about the showcase are on the ACA Showcase Web page.

International Exchange Workshop
9:00 am - 5:00 pm
$200 Registration

The 2012 International Exchange focuses on how angels around the world can collaborate to improve their own insight as investors, the exit potential of their portfolio companies, and the sustainability of their organizations. The sessions will be interactive and beneficial to the newest angels as well as those with long experience and extensive contacts. Different regions will be highlighted in each session as participants solve problems together, sharing expertise and expanding their networks and knowledge at the same time.

Angel Investing Overview Seminar
8:00 am - 4:15 pm
$250 Registration

Are you new to angel investing or looking to "tune-up" your investment skills? This program is for you. Or are you interested in finding an education program that will help recruit business angels to your angel organization or economic development initiative? This program is also for you. This full-day seminar provides an overview of the angel investing process, including the details of finding, evaluating, and structuring deals and developing angel-entrepreneur relationships that lead to success. The highly interactive program provides attendees with practical information on best practices in angel investing through a balance of expert presentations, panel discussions, and small group case studies. A faculty of experienced angel investors, serial entrepreneurs, and expert service providers delivers the seminar.

Originally developed by angels and the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation, this seminar receives the highest marks of satisfaction by attendees. More than a few sophisticated angels have said that they wished they had taken it earlier so that they would have saved hundreds or thousands of dollars.

Trends in Raising Capital and Valuation of Early Stage Companies Workshop
8:00 - 12:00 am
$125 Registration

The Angel Resource Institute (ARI) is presenting a unique version of two of its education workshops in one morning, Trends in Raising Capital and Valuation of Early Stage Companies:

Trends in Raising Capital presents the latest trends in angel investing and venture capital and covers best practices for analyzing the capital raising environment, meeting investor expectations, and current preferences in deal terms. Trends in Raising Capital will equip you with an understanding of the current investment climate by drawing upon and combining leading industry data sources and a survey of angel groups (including the Halo Report). This workshop truly presents a unique view of the capital raising environment.

Valuation of Early Stage Companies presents key methodologies that experienced angel investors have found as fundamental approaches to properly valuing early stage companies. It also presents the importance of portfolio strategies and the role of portfolio returns in the valuation process. With the right knowledge valuing early stage companies does not have to be difficult and can lead to even greater successful returns.

The program will be delivered by Bob Okabe, President of ARI, and Managing Director of RPX Group, LLC.

An In-Depth Look at Term Sheets Workshop
12:30 - 4:15 pm
$125 Registration

Angel investing is high risk investing. Consequently certain safeguards are understandable and appropriate. This workshop facilitates in-depth discussions of the terms and conditions commonly used by angel investors in funding early stage ventures. Attendees will become familiar with a wide variety of investment terms and processes through five main sections:

    • Core principles and processes
    • Structure of company and ownership interests
    • Mechanics of financial terms
    • Investor rights provisions
    • Protective provisions

The program will be led by Bob Okabe, President of ARI, and Managing Director of RPX Group, LLC.

Early Exits Workshop
12:30 - 4:15 pm
$125 Registration

Early Exits presents a strategy for startup investors and entrepreneurs to build new ventures, prove business models and exit companies in two to three years without the need for multi-million dollar investments. Based on the book by Basil Peters, Early Exits is a perfect fit for the entrepreneurial environment early in the 21st century, which can be characterized as follows:

    • The traditional venture capital model may not work. It has become much more difficult to raise expansion funding of $5 million and more.
    • Corporate America is loaded with cash and is choosing to acquire small companies in lieu of expanded internal R&D. The sweet spot for many large US companies is $15 to $30 million, selling prices of great interest to entrepreneurs and angels, but not generally to traditional VCs.
    • Building companies with a valuation of $15 million or more takes much less time with lower risk than building companies with valuation of $150 million, the average VC exit in the past few years.

The Early Exits workshop provides specific tactics for executing the Early Exits strategy from investment to exit with detailed steps to prepare for and complete an M&A transaction.

The program will be led by Basil Peters, M&A advisor, exit coach, angel investor and author of Early Exits.