MoMo Detroit – Feb. 13th – Funding Your Mobile Business
Posted on: February 1, 2012 – Filed under: Detroit
If you’re a mobile technology company looking for funding this is a meeting you should definitely attend. We’ll explore various options for obtaining funding and how they work, including venture capital, angel funding, alternative funding strategies, bank financing and more.
Featured speaker for the program will be Michael Liedtke, Founder and Managing Director of SME Consulting, LLC and Director at RSVP Capital who will review the types of business funding / financing available, requirements for getting it, and knowing when the time is right to pursue outside funding.
Additionally, we will present a panel of business funding experts including:
- Paul Czarnik, Chief Technology Officer, Compuware / Compuware Ventures, LLC
- Ted Serbinski, Vice-president, Detroit Venture Partners
- Maria LaLonde, Recruiting and Development Leader, Bizdom U
- Matt Tubergen, Mobile Technology Consultant, TechSmith
Additional panel members will soon be announced. Details and Registration Here
About our Featured Speakers:
Michael Liedtke
Michael Liedtke, serves as the Founder and Managing Director of SME Consulting, LLC and a Director at RSVP Capital. Michael has extensive knowledge in financial planning and analysis, M&A, strategic planning, along with a strong Information Technology/operations knowledge base. Over the past two years, he has worked with numerous entrepreneurs to develop the proper business model and supporting materials to launch or obtain growth capital for their venture.
Prior to SME and RSVP Capital, Michael was a Senior Associate of Amherst Partners, a middle market investment bank, located in Birmingham, MI. Prior to Amherst, Michael was an Assistant Vice President at Wachovia Securities in their internal Financial Planning & Analysis group. In this position, he was specially hired to oversee potential acquisition targets, together with performing necessary due diligence. His duties included targeting and reviewing potential acquisitions, financial modeling, and presenting opportunities to both internal management and Wachovia Bank management. Michael led certain high-level due diligence merger initiatives in the acquisition of A.G. Edwards by Wachovia Securities in 2007.
Michael’s experience also includes a number of in-depth assignments working as a Six Sigma consultant for Fortune 500 clients, including Capital One, Entergy, and General Electric. He began his career at NBC as an associate of the Information Management Leadership Program.
Michael earned an M.B.A. with a focus in Finance from the University of Richmond, Virginia and received his B.S.B.A. in Computer Information Systems from the University of Colorado at Boulder.
Once again Mobile Monday Detroit will take place at Compuware headquarters in downtown Detroit, and as always, attendance is FREE, but advance registration is required for security purposes. Free parking is available (with ticket validation at sign-in) in Compuware’s parking deck directly behind the headquarters building, and refreshments will be served.
Don’t forget to sign up on CrowdJuice.com to arrange in advance to network with others who will be at the event @ http://www.crowdjuice.com/momom/events/200
Mobile Monday Detroit is sponsored by Mobile Monday Michigan, Compuware and the Mobile Technology Association of Michigan.
Opportunity to Win!
Attendees at the event will have the opportunity to apply for a FREE limited membership into the Mobile Technology Association of Michigan (MTAM), and all who apply at this event will automatically be entered into a drawing to win Exhibit Passes for the 2012 Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, Spain taking place February 27 – March 1, 2012. Each ticket is valued at over $850. Click HERE to learn more about this international mobile technology industry event.