Right off the heels of the NYC and Silicon Valley events we’re stoked to be coming back to for a second OAF LA May 18th.

As usual, this event will bring together six great startups (apply here), a handful of great angels (apply here), and five seats for sponsoring service providers (available here).  The deadline to apply is 11:59pm May 9th!

Right off the heels of the inaugural OAF San Francisco event (which you may have read about here or here or here) we’re stoked to be kicking off OAF Silicon Valley on April  16th with none other than Dave McClure and Shervin Pishevar as the Silicon Valley chapter heads.

As usual, this event will bring together five great startups (apply here), a handful of great angels (apply here), and five seats for sponsoring service providers (available here).

The deadline for startups to apply is this event is April 8th.

OAF NYC takes place on April 8th and is accepting startup applications until March 30th.

Right off the heels of the LA and Boulder events we’re stoked to be kicking off  OAF New York  April 8th with Brian Alvey and Charlie O’Donnell as the NYC chapter heads.

As usual, this event will each bring together five great startups (apply here), a handful of great angels (apply here), and five seats for sponsoring service providers (available here).

Local Chapters: We’ve had interest from about a dozen cities to host a quarterly “Open Angel Forum” and we’re totally blown away. I’m in the process of writing a charter that will be the basis of the local chapters and how we operate as a national–and some day perhaps international–organization.

Format:

The format of Open Angel Forum is simple:

1. At 7PM 15-20 angel get together for an amazing steak dinner.

2. From 8PM to 9:30PM five companies present their ideas for 10 minutes each with a little Q&A.

3. After the event the five startups receive a list of angels who express their interest level in their startup: a) Setup a followup meeting, b) Keep me posted but not a fit right now, c) Not a fit.

I’ve come up with a mission statement, what do you think?

Open Angel Forum: To help entrepreneurs and angel investors change the world together.

The basic operating principles are:

1. Startups are not charged to present, but rather selected based on merit by a committee of angels (and myself).

2. Angel investors are not charged to attend.

3. Five service providers can attend the event for $1,500 each.

4. Only uber-qualified angels are allowed–power angels as we call them. We define this as three investments in known companies in the past year. If the person is not a “power angel,” but still and angel, they are on the wait list (i.e. if you had two investments in three years we would out you second to someone with five in one year–makes sense to me).

5. Not entrepreneurs or press at the event for obvious reasons.

6. All presentations are under “friend-D-A” (but not NDA for obvious reasons). Angels are expected to keep presentations confidential.

7. If you’re a “combo angel investor and service provider” (think: lawyer who sometimes invests, recruiter who takes equity, etc), then we qualify you as a service provider.

8. The service provider revenue should cover the steak dinner, and fine wine, but if it does not the angel investors split the bill.

9. All ticket sales, and sponsorship sales when we have them, will run through the national, for profit organization. The national organization will take 20% of all ticket sales and sponsorship, giving 80% to the local chapter. So, if the local chapter wants to sell five service provider tickets and two sponsorship for a total of $8,000 for each event, they would keep $6,000 and kick $2,000 back to the national organization.

10. Local chapters will host two to four events per year.

11. Chapter heads will be personally selected by me.

12. Killer startups from one chapter will, if they choose, be able to pitch to other chapters. So, for example, if the super cool startups www.Blippy.com had presented in San Francisco and simply crushed it, we would have them possibly present in London, New York, Boston, Colorado and Los Angeles.

13. All final decisions will be entrusted to the chapter heads who we have selected because of their high level of integrity and trust with me.

14. These rules are subject to common sense and will be altered, expanded, disregarded and contradicted based on the sole discretion of the fine folks who are hosting the forum. We will always be fair and true to the mission of OAF: To help entrepreneurs and angels investors change the world.

Any feedback?

If you’re an entrepreneur interested in presenting to the group, please fill out the application here.

A large number of service providers, including lawyers, accountants, real estate agents and consultants, have asked to attend the event. While I personally love my lawyer and accountant, we can’t allow every service provider in the world into the event or it will be 90% service providers. In order to resolve this issue, I’ve come up with a revolutionary concept: charge the service providers to attend the event. In fact, that is the business model of the Open Angel Forum: free for startups, free for angel investors and very expensive for service providers. (Don’t worry; they can easily afford it!). We are currently opening up five service provider seats to the event (i.e. lawyers, recruiters, etc) for $1,500 each. Yes, the service providers are paying for dinner. You can purchase your ticket here.

Kevin Rose, Founder of Digg

http://www.digg.com

Sandy Climan

http://www.emventures.com/

Gordon Gould

http://www.gordongould.com/?page_id=2

Matt Coffin of LowerMyBills

http://www.crunchbase.com/person/matt-coffin

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matt_Coffin

Sky Dayton of Earthlink, Boingo, etc.

http://www.crunchbase.com/person/sky-dayton

Bill Woodward of Anthem VP

http://www.anthemvp.com/?page=team&mod=detail&vid=1

Phil Kaplan, Founder of AdBrite

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philip_J._Kaplan

If you’re an entrepreneur who’d like to pitch the OAF: http://bit.ly/oafentrepreneurs

If you’re an angel investor who’d like to fund startups: http://bit.ly/1wTIlE

If you’re a service provider (like law, accounting, hr, etc): http://bit.ly/oafservice

Hey guys, we’ve been getting some great logos for the Open Angel Forum, but we need your feedback on which one you like the best. As always, if you think you can do better, give it a shot! E-mail any new logos to contact (at) thisweekinstartups (dot) com.

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