Angel-investor session goes public. Entrepreneurs to make pitches with an audience on hand

What the heck, reality programming worked for TV. Might as well try out angel-investment meetings on an audience.

These are traditionally private, little-publicized, events in which entrepreneurs take turns describing their business and presenting their plans in 15-minute segments to investors – angels – who are willing to put up $100,000 to $500,000 of their own money on the right business.

That’s what the CTEK Angels have planned for their next monthly meeting, Oct. 17: opening the session up to the public. The program, dubbed "CTEK Angels LIVE" will be conducted like all other meetings held by CTEK, Colorado’s largest formal angel investment network (CTEK is an acronym for Capital, Technology, Entrepreneurship and Knowledge).

The only difference:

"The audience will see all aspects, they’ll see how the presentations go," says Christina Jones, program coordinator for CTEK Angels. "They can also kind of learn from the mistakes that the presenters might make. This is going to be real."

The event, 3 p.m. to 6 p.m. at the University of Denver’s Davis Auditorium in Sturm Hall, is free, but CTEK is asking non-students for a minimum donation of $10 to cover refreshments and expenses. Space is limited and an RSVP is requested. To register or learn more about the event, visit http://www.CTEK.biz. Entrepreneurs interested in presenting at the October meeting can fill out an application at http://www.CTEKAngels.biz.

By Mike Taylor

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