Angel Venture Fair - Comments on AVF

"As a first-time participant in the Angel Venture Fair, I was thoroughly impressed by the quality of the other entrepreneurs and the sharpness of the questions and ideas of the diverse community of investors. We had a great experience and we came away with a number of fantastic leads. By all accounts, today's event was a huge success ," Ryan Frankel, president, Palmling.

"This year's keynote speaker, Bill Draper, one of the country's leading venture capitalists, paid Marc Kramer and the 2012 Angel Venture Fair the highest compliment by asserting that he would recommend to his son that he relocate to Philadelphia because of its vibrant entrepreneurial community. Vibrant is the word that best describes the wonderfully orchestrated program Marc and his team presented May 1 to a capacity crowd deeply engaged in the commerce of birthing early stage ventures. Bravo!" Richard Anthony, Founder, Villanova Entrepreneurs Network Entrepreneur-in-Residence Center for Inovation, Creativity & Entrepreneurship.

“Our early hesitations for the expected audience of investors, converted during the day to a continues stream of enthusiastic investors focused on getting more info about our offering. An exciting day, meeting a cluster of interesting people with a superior organization.” Dani Shavit, president/CEO of Pango

"What an extraordinary undertaking. Not only are you and the AVF an incredible resource for today's
entrepreneurs, but you're set up to encourage, inspire and assist tomorrow's as well. Being the
mother of three incredible sons - each with entrepreneurial spirits! - I can't begin to tell you how
grateful I am for your existence. I hope that as Personally Cool evolves, we'll be participants
again!"-Suzie Hadas, President of Personally Cool.

"Glad to be part of the AVF this year. Great group of companies and lots of enthusiastic investors," Tim Pelura, president/CEO, Immunone

"Thank you for hosting the Angel Venture Fair this past Thursday. The event was well attended,
organized, well run and we had plenty of time to meet with potential investors. I also liked being
able to present twice in order to have more attendees hear about our business. I would highly
recommend this forum for fellow entrepreneurs if they are looking to meet a great cross section of
investors, early stage VC's and other interesting attendees." -Kenneth M. Damato, President, Our
Dough-Main

"It was a great day - I met some amazing contacts and several individuals with specific expertise
and interest in my space. I'm looking forward to staying in touch with all those I met at AVF as we
drive pureNANO forward."- Lev Davidson, President, pureNANO Tech.

"From our viewpoint we were impressed with the event. It was professional, structured and relevant
to a technology start up like Brivea. The preparation and execution were of a high standard and
there was a terrific bunch of potential investors who attended. As of today we have follow ups with
10 investors which is very encouraging. I enthusiastically recommend the event to start ups who
need to meet the right quality of investor audience."- Ray Barratt President and CEO Brivea LLC

"Thank you for doing an awesome job in putting together this year’s AVF. The entire process was
extremely valuable in honing our presentation skills and we have developed relationships through the
AVF that we believe will be long lasting. I will send you a quote to use for your website. BTW, we
are continuing to get contacted by interested investors. Thank you for the visibility!"- Sue
Springsteen, founder/President, nth-Solutions.

"The Angel Venture Fair is the third event for our company this year and by far the best. The
quality of investor, the support from Morgan Lewis and others, and the level of professionalism
throughout were all top notch. Now it is up to us to close the several good opportunities resulting
from our participation."- Dan Garrett, President, Privtec.

"The angel fair was well attended and organized very well. I was really impressed with the flow of
activity and the efficient manner in which everthing seemed to run. There were great people in the
room and most were congenial. Overall this event ranks among the best that I have attended on
venture funding activity."- Reggie Pollit, Venture Consultant.

"The day-long event gave us the opportunity to meet with dozens of investors, and it gave us the
time to tell our story completely, without the time constraints imposed by presentation schedules.
It was the most enjoyable event we have attended."- Rod Heckman, Co-Founder and COO, 3000BC HOME

"Terrific show ... Congratulations on the event!! We definitely left the show feeling good, making
great connections such as David Freschman of Fashinvest and Bill Podd of Landmark Angels etc." -
Aaron Duncan,President, WonderMode.

"AVF exceeded our every expectation. It was non-stop connecting; brainstorming; commiserating; and
sharing enthusiasms, problems, solutions, and new ideas. The calibre of entrepreneurs and investors
alike was exceptionally high." - Hugh Brownstone, Co-Founder, Personally Cool.

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