Inside the Mind of an Angel Investor

Will Your Business Need Angel Investors?

Learn what goes on inside the mind of an Angel Investor.

• What are their motivations and goals
• What they look for in a startup
• How to approach angel investors
• How they “value” your business
• The typical documents involved
• Pitch basics
• How the typical process works

This workshop is led by Venture Madness Board Chair, investor, and business coach Tom Fulcher, an area expert on angel investing. Tom has mentored and coached many companies. He serves as a judge for Venture Madness and the Arizona Innovation Challenge. He has acted as an entrepreneur-in-residence for an Arizona Commerce Authority program, helped companies as the executive-in-residence for a local tech incubator and leads the Pitch Power™ workshop series (coming later this year to Mesa). Tom is also an ASU and Thunderbird alumni and has traveled to all seven continents.

Info: Tom Fulcher, President and founder of The Idea Gardener LLC has over 25 years of management experience with start-ups, small businesses and Fortune 500 companies. Tom is the current Chair of the Venture Madness Board of Directors. He serves on local tech startup boards and served as the Executive-In-Residence for a local tech incubator, owns and teaches the Pitch Power series, leads business seminars and workshops and is active in many roles within the angel community in Arizona. He serves as a judge for Venture Madness and the Arizona Innovation Challenge and as both a panelist, mentor and entrepreneur-in-residence for the Arizona Commerce Authority and its Venture Scale program. His business development and strategy consulting organization has a successful track record of helping entrepreneurs in business development areas including planning, modeling, branding, marketing strategy and preparation for capital formation. He is also a Certified Global Business Professional and a Cert

Event Venue & Nearby Stays

Mesa Business Builder @ The Studios, 59 East 1st Street, Mesa, United States