Mark LaRosa and Ryan Pipkin headed out to Utah last Wednesday to attend the Wayne Brown Institute’s 24th Annual Investor’s Choice® Venture Capital Conference. 23 domestic companies pitched their opportunity to more than 200 investors and equity capital providers at this year’s conference.

Wayne Brown partnered with us last fall when the Institute launched Angelsoft to serve as the platform for both Investor’s Choice® and The Deal Forum. Five Utah-based angel groups, moderated by USTAR, sat down together for a panel entitled “FINDING YOUR FIRST DOLLAR - Trends in Angel Investing in Utah.” Olympus Angels, Salt Lake Life Science Angels, Park City Angels, Utah Angels, and Southern Utah Dixie Angels discussed what they look for, and how to get in front of them for consideration. All five groups on the panel use Angelsoft.

And then we got to ski with THIS GUY!!! Dean Cummings, an Olympic skier, former member of the U.S. Ski Team, the World Extreme Skiing Champion of 1995, and owner of H2O Guides, a heli-ski business in Alaska, volunteered his time at the Investor Ski Day following the conference to take some of us on the slopes and teach us a thing or two. Mark and I couldn’t pass it up. Skiing with him was … in a word … awesome!

Evan Bartlett :: Feb.12.2008 :: Events ::