LiveComplete, Founder - "Hi Mike, I wanted to thank you very much for hosting the Private Equity Conference. It was indeed a pleasure meeting with you and David. Please say hello to him, and let him know that it is always a pleasure meeting with a music enthusiast. Also, I appreciate you sending me the list of the interested investors today. I will let you know if I have any questions prior to my calling them on Monday. Please do keep in touch, and I appreciate all your help and insights.”


Carter Stone & Co., President and Founder - "Dear Michael, I am writing to you as someone who has attended many of your events at the Yale Club. Those events are probably the most interesting and professional venues that I have had the pleasure of attending. All of the participants have enjoyed an audience of private equity professionals, private investors, venture capitalists and banks to listen to their promotional stories and be able to develop a program where those groups would like to invest. The camaraderie which is developed at those events and the coordination by your son and his team leave everyone with a feeling that they have experienced a professional, organized and well run event.

I am always impressed at the lack of vendors and service providers which do not exist at these well coordinated meetings. I have been to other meetings of this type and I have seen many vendors and service providers, don't know how you do it.

I am looking forward to the next event and many events in the future. I, as a businessman and a private investor have been privy and had the opportunity to develop long term relationships with serious minded business people of a certain caliber. I leave you with my last thought and that is that the caliber of individual and corporation that you attract is by far the highest. No other event attracts this type of audience. The people who come to the event to try and gain financing are fortunate to have this type of venue. I have met many of them. They are all delighted to be there.

I look forward to seeing you in November and if I can help you in any way, please feel free to let me know. "


CP Capital Securities, Managing Director - Corporate Finance - "Phil, Please find the description of an excellent 1-day, East Coast-based, early-stage venture capital event, in both the body of this email below and attached, for your review. It is the 2010 National Venture Summit & Emerging Growth Forum, being held on June 17th, 2010 in New York City at the Yale Club in midtown Manhattan. It is hosted by Mike Segal and Bryan Emerson, 2 long-time, early-stage venture capital specialists. …….. Mike Segal convinced me and 2 of our clients, Consult A Doctor and Adopt-A-Classroom, to go to their March event, one of the 4 events they hold a year. It was time and money well spent. There are several ways to visit…..but the best, to be sure, is to present to the group at-large. There is a limit, to the best of knowledge, of 15 companies. The reason so many companies seeking capital want to be at this event is that, simply, that it's the best forum on the US for getting to more qualified angel groups, family offices, VCs and institutional investors, generally totaling 150 to 200 investors from all over the country. It's almost a "Road Show" that comes to the company.

If you've been looking for money in a dedicated, structured and organized way, spending a minimum of 4-5 hours per day for the past several months, you know what the difference is between an "investor" and a qualified investor; simply, a qualified investor is someone who invested in a new pre-revenue or early-stage company (less than $1MM in revenue) in the past 12 months (not an existing portfolio company). As you probably know, in 2009 and 2010 that probably rules out 70-75% of all Angels, Angel groups, Family Offices, Private Equity and Venture Capital firms and funds. If you've attended other events around the States, you may not have looked at the attending "investors" that way. We do, because, if you look at the national figures from the National Venture Capital Association, the North American Angel Capital Association, the Wall Street Journal, Barron's, etc., you know that the $17.3B invested in 2009 …is expected to stay flat in 2010. This means that, for the most part, only the firms which invested in 2009 will invest in 2010. That $17.3B is down from $30B in 2008 and down from $100B in 2000, you know that the 25-30% of all the groups are the only people you should spend more than 2 minutes with.

This event hosts more Principals, from funds which actually invested in new companies in the past 12 months, on a factor of 5:1, to any event I've attended in the past 2 years. These aren't principals which invested in no new companies, ….but they're folks who actually put-up their own money last year. Simply, the 2010 National Venture Summit & Emerging Growth Forum is, certainly the March event was, as good as it gets for an early-stage company in this market. The value of presenting to Principals of VC funds which actually made an investment last year in an early-stage company is immense.…"


The City University of New York / Technology Commercialization Office - "HI Mike, I am writing to thank you once again! It was a great conference and we made some very valuable contacts. We hope to establish some fruitful relationships with those investors and local entrepreneurs. Let's keep in touch. "


Vanity Events, President - "Hi Mike, Thanks so much for both hosting the event and providing this information to us, in addition to allowing us to enter at such a late date. We've already begun contacting some of the companies who expressed interest in the Company, with positive results, and will continue to contact more companies over the next couple of weeks. We will certainly keep you updated as to our progress, and try to give you a list of the companies we've been in contact with as well - Thanks again!"


Jabbersmack, President - "Hi Mike, Thank you very much for your detailed follow-up to last week's venture capital conference. It is very much appreciated. Please let me know if there is ever anything I can do to assist you at any time in the future. I will let you know when we have a firm deal in place. Have a great day!!!"


IrishCentral, President - "Mike, Niall and I enjoyed the conference last week. This was the first event of this type that I've attended and you can clearly see the value of bringing together entrepreneur and investor when there is mutual interest in business vertical. We had some good conversations with many of the investors and found a couple who we thought might have interest in this space. Please let us know if anyone has made contact with you regarding IrishCentral and what we can do to continue conversations. Thank you."


eChina MD, President - "Laura & Bryan: It was great see you both yesterday and Elliot and I both feel the event was well worth our while. I did not get a chance to say good bye to you yesterday but wanted you both to know how much I appreciate your efforts. I look forward to seeing you both again, perhaps in Beijing this time! Maybe a Starlight investor forum in China??? "


eC Research LLC, President & CEO - "Bryan, Thanks for this follow-up. I think you guys did a GREAT job! I've been to a lot of VC Fairs and yours was extremely well done."


Bath n' Clip, President - "Let me congratulate you and your team on a most excellent meeting today. I've attended many events like this over the past 30 years and I must say that yours may well be the very best of its kind. My expectations, quite frankly, were more than exceeded……… Toward that end, we received 18 requests for a PPM from attendees. Additionally, we have at least 5 follow-ups by telephone which may precede additional requests….."