CED's 24th Venture Conference Showcases Investment Opportunities.Conference Highlights 67 High-Growth Companies; Attracts 800+ Attendees and Investors from 20 States DURHAM, N.C. -- The Council for Entrepreneurial Development (CED (Capacitance Electronic Disc) An earlier videodisc technology from RCA that was released in 1981 and abandoned five years later. Like phonograph records, the analog disc contained grooves that a stylus rode over. ) hosted its 24th annual Venture conference Monday through Wednesday with more than 800 people participating in total, including more than 250 investors. The three-day conference, held at Washington Duke Washington Duke (December 18, 1820 – May 08, 1905) was an American tobacco industrialist and philanthropist. Duke was born George Washington Duke in Durham County, North Carolina, to Taylor Duke (c1770–1830) and Dicey Jones (born c1780). Inn & Golf Club on the campus of Duke University in Durham, N.C., showcased the Southeast and Mid-Atlantic's top investment opportunities to angel investors An individual who invests his or her own money in a private company, which is typically a startup. An angel investor is not an employee or member of a bank, venture capital firm or other financial institution that normally makes such investments. , venture capitalists and financiers from 20 states. Venture 2007 included presentations by 67 of the most promising private companies from an eight-state region. In addition, the conference featured a national media panel discussion on the future of the venture capital market, as well as an Angel Investor Retreat with featured remarks from Jeffrey Sohl, Ph.D., director of the Center for Venture Research at the University of New Hampshire New Hampshire, one of the New England states of the NE United States. It is bordered by Massachusetts (S), Vermont, with the Connecticut R. forming the boundary (W), the Canadian province of Quebec (NW), and Maine and a short strip of the Atlantic Ocean (E). . The conference also offered a first-ever Start-up Speed Dating speed dating n → sistema di appuntamenti grazie al quale si possono incontrare in pochissimo tempo diverse persone e scegliere eventualmente chi frequentare session on Tuesday afternoon, which gave pre-seed companies an opportunity to meet with investors in a fast-paced, rotating session. On Wednesday morning, the conference presented keynote remarks by Marshall Phelps, corporate vice president and deputy general counsel of intellectual property at Microsoft Corp., and Kush Kush: see Cush. Parikh, vice president of business development at Inrix. "With 67 of the region's top investment opportunities and a general attendance of more than 800 entrepreneurs, investors and service providers, Venture 2007 was an overwhelming success," said CED President Monica Doss. "The conference is a true testament to the Southeast and Mid-Atlantic's thriving entrepreneurial spirit." For more details on Venture 2007, visit www.cednc.org/venture. About CED: The Council for Entrepreneurial Development (CED) is a private, non-profit organization A non-profit organization (abbreviated "NPO", also "non-profit" or "not-for-profit") is a legally constituted organization whose primary objective is to support or to actively engage in activities of public or private interest without any commercial or monetary profit purposes. formed in 1984 to identify, enable and promote high growth, high impact entrepreneurial companies and to accelerate the entrepreneurial culture of the Research Triangle and North Carolina North Carolina, state in the SE United States. It is bordered by the Atlantic Ocean (E), South Carolina and Georgia (S), Tennessee (W), and Virginia (N). Facts and Figures Area, 52,586 sq mi (136,198 sq km). Pop. . Headquartered in the Research Triangle with a divisional office in Wilmington, CED is the largest and oldest entrepreneurial support organization in the nation with more than 4,000 members representing over 1,100 entrepreneurial companies, financiers and professional firms. CED provides education, mentoring and capital formation resources to new and existing high-growth entrepreneurs through annual conferences, seminars, workshops and programs on entrepreneurial management and finance. www.cednc.org |
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