Leadership Workshop 2018 Irvine
Thank you for your interest in the many materials and resources provided during the 2018 ACA Leadership Workshop in Irvine. Please feel free to review and use the materials below. We post all of the materials provided to us by our presenters and sponsors.
Meeting Information
Presentations
- An Inside Look at Your Association
- Investing in AI and Machine Learning
- How to Tighten and Speed Up Your Group’s Deal Decisions – and Improve Your Reputation and Deal Flow
- Knowing When to Exit – Timing is Everything
- Continue Inside Look at Your Association
- ACA’s Strategic Initiatives – Add Your Voice!
- Importance of Collecting Data – and How to Get Companies to Treat You Like a Major Investor
- Superficial Due Diligence Enabled the Theranos Debacle
- Open Innovation and the Venture Ecosystem: Demystifying the Road to Acquisition
- Should Angels be Able to Force Exits? Revisiting Zombies, Redemption Rights and Dividends in 2018
- Modernize and Invigorate Your Member Recruitment in the New Angel Landscape
- Before You Write that Term Sheet – Minimum Standard Terms and Strategies for Successful Syndication
Angel Education, Knowledge and Skills
- 17 Initial Investment Decision Biases – John Huston
- 20 Causes of Failure Scorecard – John Huston
- 29 Follow-on Investment Biases – John Huston
- ACA Education Courses to Bring to Your Community
- ACA Education Partner Seraf Investor has Great Content
- Due Diligence Lessons Learned from the Theranos Debacle – John Huston
- Investing Without Waiting for Exits Q and A – Luni Libes
- Seraf Welcome – Education Resources
- Term Warfare: Comparing SAFE, KISS and NVCA Term Sheets – Ron Weissman
- Top 20 Reasons Startups Fail – John Huston
- Tracking Angel Returns – Rob Wiltbank Deck at NW Regional
Data Analytics and Angel Funders Report
- ACA Angel Funders Report Pilot (full report)
- ACA Data Analytics on Hockeystick
- ACA Data Rink – Example Worksheet to Provide Data
- ACA Partners with Hockeystick to Provide Data Insights that Improve Returns
- Angel Funders Report Presentation (standard size) – for members to make presentations
- Angel Funders Report Presentation (wide size) – for members to make presentations
Modernize Your Member Recruitment in the New Angel Landscape
- ACA Diversity and Inclusion Resource Guide – Marcia Dawood
- Angel Investing is Not as Risky as You Think – Peter Adams
- Morehouse College to Increase Pool of Minority Investors
- Smart Angel Investing and Board Involvement Can Include Diversity
- The Emergence of Millennial Angels
- The Key to Diversity in Tech
- Women Angels: Tapping into a Serious Investment Source
Public Policy – New Issues and Tools
- 2018 ACA Grassroots Toolkit
- ACA Policy Issues One-Pager
- House Election Race Ratings (marked for key committee members)
- Opportunity Zones One-Pager – Milken Institute
- Opportunity Zones Qualified Opportunity Funds Overview – Milken Institute
- Public Policy Presentation for Sen. Durbin – Gale Bowman (example to use/ develop yourself)
- What Angels Need to Know About CFIUS – Christopher MIrabile
Research and Resources on Entrepreneurship and Ecosystems
Speaker and Sponsor Information
- 2017 Foley Hoag Mergers and Acquisitions
- ACA Strategic Direction – Tony Shipley
- Intro to NIH – World’s Largest Early-Stage Biomedical Investor
- Private Funds and Emerging Companies – Foley Hoag
- Seraf Enterprise Portal for Angel Groups
- Seraf Enterprise Portal for Funds
- TAE Technologies Overview
- The Rewards of Being an Angel Investor – Mainstar Trust
- Time Magazine Cover Story about Tri-Alpha Energy (now TAE Technologies)