Interested in learning more about successful IP models?
Attend the 2nd Annual Hawaii Intellectual Property Licensing Conference

Co-sponsors: High Technology Development Corp., and Intellectual Property & Technology Section of HSBA
Date: Friday, October 20, 2006, 8:30 am to 4:30 pm
Place: Ala Moana Hotel, Hibiscus Ballroom, 2nd Floor

Online registration at: www.iplicensingconference.com

Contact: Patty Low, (808) 947-3101 or promotions@pacificnews.net

This year’s IPL Conference, “Turning New Technologies & Creative Ideas Into Profits”, will focus on practical business models, marketing methods, and licensing resources to assist Hawaii entrepreneurs, business professionals, and investors with selling or licensing technology inventions …

Mahalo Nui to Monte Littlefield of Pipeline Communications and Technology for putting together this presentation on Building a Winning Business Plan.
It’s short, simple, to the point, and most importantly, is the result of Monte’s own personal experience in raising Angel funding for his fledgling company. He worked his relationships with Hawaii’s VC community for over a year and has proven himself to be a coachable CEO that listens to the right people at the right time.
Monte, we’re all cheering for you man. Go baby!

Here’s a presentation I made thanks to www.htdc.org folks. Mahalo Nui to Sandy Park, Laurie Akau, and everyone else over there for their hard work in putting this together.
Good fun!
What I talk about in this 1.5 hr presentation is:
- How to ride a tech trend up, down, and out with class.
- What VC’s look for
- A slightly different model for starting up companies with far less capital yet with similar gains.
- a small dose of a spiritual perspective on success
Let me know what you think!

If you’re going to be making a presentation to Hawaii’s UH Angels, here’s two documents you should review and use to help you prepare:
Presenter Guidelines gives a collection of bullets of topics that you should plan on including with your presentations.
Term Sheet Summary is 3 slides that detail the “deal” e.g. terms of the funds you’re raising. The info on these slides should be included w/ any presentation made to UH Angels too.
In addition, you should check out their “For Presenters” page for additional resources.

I had the great honor of presenting to the Hawaii Venture Capital Association last week Thursday. I was so focused on the event that I forgot to bring my recording equipment so I don’t have the event live, but I do have a printout of the slide presentation.
There were serveral very cool moments in that presentation, one of my favorites was from local VC Jeff Au of PacificCap Group, LLC who essentially agreed that Hawaii companies are best suited to small, quick wins. Thanks Jeff!