Bootstrapping is an option, however, being able to fully develop an idea and get a functioning product to customers means having to find investors and navigating that early stage ecosystem which can be hard to do alone.

Philip Argy details what it takes, the do’s and the don’ts and so much more.

“At Sydney Angels we are a group of worldly, experienced business-people who want to give back. We can help founders grow their business and expand their skills matrix”. It’s not easy to be a founder and navigate the complex world of investors, says Philip Argy.

Sydney Angels is one of Australia’s best-known venture funds and alone has seen a five-fold increase in funding applications in the last decade. Tune in, to hear about the real reason you may not be getting angel investment, what it takes to get an Angel investment, how to navigate the complex world of start-up investors and how you can be an early investor.

SPEAKER BIO

Philip Argy, is an experienced commercial mediator and arbitrator, having successfully resolved thousands of disputes, many of them highly complex involving tens of millions of dollars. He specialises in intellectual property, science, technology, consumer, franchising and competition issues and has an Australian Government Negative Vetting 2 security clearance enabling him to assist in cases involving classified information. He has been a computer buff for nearly 50 years as well as being an experienced programmer. Philip left Mallesons Stephen Jaques (now called King & Wood Mallesons) at the end of 2007 after being with the firm for almost 32 years (24 of them as a partner). He established ArgyStar.com primarily to evangelise and implement dispute resolution and avoidance strategies in the IT sector, applying the ADRoIT Principles, jointly developed by the Australian Computer Society, IAMA, and the Project Management Institute. He is a director and founder of the Technology Dispute Centre and a Consulting Principal at Keypoint Law - an innovative model in legal service delivery.

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