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<P STYLE="text-align: center;"><SPAN STYLE="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: medium; color: #ff6600;">Empire Angels Young Investors Series</SPAN></P>
<P STYLE="text-align: center;"><SPAN STYLE="color: #ff6600;"><STRONG><SPAN STYLE="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: medium;">Doing the Math</SPAN></STRONG></SPAN></P>
<P><SPAN STYLE="color: #5b5b5b;"><EM><SPAN STYLE="font-size: small;"><SPAN STYLE="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><SPAN STYLE="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 16px;">A necessary evil for both investors and entrepreneurs: get a quick and dirty education in valuations and cap tables. Keynote speaker Ellie Wheeler, Principal at Greycroft Partners, will give her take on the market, whether companies are being over-valued and how she approaches the valuation question, followed by a hands on cap table exercise led by Empire Angels. D</SPAN></SPAN></SPAN></EM><EM STYLE="line-height: 1.6em;"><SPAN STYLE="font-size: small;"><SPAN STYLE="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><SPAN STYLE="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 16px;">on't worry - there will be plenty of beer to help the numbers go down.</SPAN></SPAN></SPAN></EM></SPAN></P>
<P STYLE="text-align: center;"><SPAN STYLE="color: #5b5b5b;"><EM STYLE="line-height: 1.6em;"><SPAN STYLE="font-size: small;"><SPAN STYLE="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><SPAN STYLE="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 16px;">Be sure to bring a laptop or tablet to participate!</SPAN></SPAN></SPAN></EM></SPAN></P>
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<P STYLE="text-align: center;"><SPAN STYLE="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; color: #ff6600; font-size: medium;">Keynote Speaker</SPAN></P>
<P STYLE="text-align: center;"><SPAN STYLE="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><STRONG>Ellie Wheeler, Principal, <A HREF="http://www.greycroft.com" TARGET="_blank">Greycroft Partners</A>// <A HREF="http://www.twitter.com/ellie" TARGET="_blank">@ellie</A></STRONG></SPAN></P>
<P><SPAN STYLE="color: #5b5b5b;"><SPAN STYLE="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;">Ellie Wheeler is a Principal with Greycroft Partners and is a member of the New York office. Her responsibilities include evaluating investment</SPAN><SPAN STYLE="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;"></SPAN><SPAN STYLE="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;">opportunities, sourcing new deals, and working with existing portfolio companies.</SPAN></SPAN><BR STYLE="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;"><BR STYLE="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;"><SPAN STYLE="color: #5b5b5b;"><SPAN STYLE="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;">Prior to joining Greycroft, Ellie worked in a similar role during business school evaluating investment opportunities at Lowercase Capital with</SPAN><SPAN STYLE="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;"></SPAN><SPAN STYLE="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;">investor Chris Sacca. Before working with Lowercase, Wheeler worked at Cisco in Corporate Development doing acquisitions, investments,</SPAN><SPAN STYLE="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;"></SPAN><SPAN STYLE="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;">and strategy within the communications, collaboration, and video verticals. Wheeler's past experience also includes working briefly at the</SPAN><SPAN STYLE="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;"></SPAN><SPAN STYLE="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;">London-based venture capital firm DN Capital, focused on early stage ecommerce companies. She began her career in growth capital private</SPAN><SPAN STYLE="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;"></SPAN><SPAN STYLE="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;">equity at Summit Partners in Boston.</SPAN></SPAN><BR STYLE="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;"><BR STYLE="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;"><SPAN STYLE="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; color: #5b5b5b;">Ellie graduated magna cum laude from Georgetown University with a BA in Psychology and holds an MBA from Harvard Business School.</SPAN><BR STYLE="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;"><BR STYLE="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;"></P>
<P STYLE="text-align: center;"><EM><SPAN STYLE="color: #ff6600; font-family: 'Open Sans', 'Lucida Grande', arial, sans-serif; font-size: medium;"><SPAN STYLE="line-height: 23px;"> Generously hosted by</SPAN></SPAN></EM></P>
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<P STYLE="text-align: center;"><A HREF="http://www.garysguide.com" TARGET="_blank"><EM STYLE="color: #99ccff; line-height: 1.6em;"><SPAN STYLE="font-family: 'Open Sans', 'Lucida Grande', arial, sans-serif; font-size: medium;"><SPAN STYLE="line-height: 23px;"><EM STYLE="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 20px; text-align: center;"><SPAN STYLE="color: #ff6600; font-family: 'Open Sans', 'Lucida Grande', arial, sans-serif; font-size: medium;"><SPAN STYLE="line-height: 23px;"><IMG SRC="https://evbdn.eventbrite.com/s3-s3/eventlogos/76164951/garysguidelogosquare.jpg" ALT="" WIDTH="200" HEIGHT="200"></SPAN></SPAN></EM></SPAN></SPAN></EM></A></P>
<P STYLE="text-align: center;"><EM STYLE="color: #99ccff; line-height: 1.6em;"><SPAN STYLE="font-family: 'Open Sans', 'Lucida Grande', arial, sans-serif; font-size: medium;"><SPAN STYLE="line-height: 23px;"><BR></SPAN></SPAN></EM></P>
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<P><SPAN STYLE="color: #5b5b5b;"><STRONG STYLE="color: #333333; line-height: 1.6em;"><SPAN STYLE="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">The Empire Angels Young Investors Series</SPAN></STRONG><SPAN STYLE="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"></SPAN><SPAN STYLE="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">seeks to provide education and training to young angel investors in the New York area. How do I tell good deals from bad? What are the most important terms to negotiate for? How to I add value to my portfolio companies? Through a curated series of evening workshops, panels and discussion events, the Young Investors Series aims to empower highly successful Millennial professionals with the key skills required to find, execute and support early stage, private investments.</SPAN></SPAN></P>
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<P STYLE="text-align: center;"><STRONG><SPAN STYLE="color: #ff9900;"><EM><SPAN STYLE="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">Please note our event registration policy</SPAN></EM></SPAN></STRONG></P>
<P STYLE="border: 0px; font-family: HelveticaNeue-Regular, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; vertical-align: baseline; margin: 16px 0px 18px; padding: 0px; color: #636b75;"><SPAN STYLE="color: #5b5b5b;"><EM STYLE="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Our events are open to all, and we work hard to ensure they are engaging, fun, and low cost to attend. It's not easy! We know things come up, but if you register for an event and just don't show up, it's a big disappointment.</EM><SPAN STYLE="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 1.6em; text-align: center;"></SPAN></SPAN></P>
<P STYLE="border: 0px; font-family: HelveticaNeue-Regular, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; vertical-align: baseline; margin: 0px 0px 18px; padding: 0px; color: #636b75;"><SPAN STYLE="color: #5b5b5b;"><EM STYLE="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">If you bail without notice on two events, you unfortunately will not be allowed to attend in the future.</EM><EM STYLE="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">To avoid this fate, just shoot an email to info@empireangels.com if your plans change. We really appreciate it!</EM></SPAN></P>
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<P><SPAN STYLE="font-size: small; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; color: #5b5b5b;"><A HREF="http://www.empireangels.com" TARGET="_blank"><SPAN STYLE="color: #5b5b5b;"><STRONG>Empire Angels</STRONG></SPAN></A>is a member-led, New York based angel group of young professionals which seek to invest in early stage technology ventures with a focus on supporting young entrepreneurs.</SPAN></P>
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