Josh Maher is a world renowned author, speaker, and investor with a passion for finance and innovation. His bestselling books and keynote speeches bring audiences along his journey exploring these aspects of society.
He is the author of Startup Wealth: How the Best Angel Investors Make Money in Startups. Startup Wealth delivers engaging interviews with early-stage investors in Google, Invisalign, ZipCar, Uber, Twilio, Localytics, and other successful and not so successful companies. You can learn more about the book and get additional material on the Startup Wealth website.
Josh is a regular keynote speaker at conferences and private angel and entrepreneurial meetings and workshops. He regularly teaches local courses on angel investing, raising capital, and portfolio management around the world. An angel investor himself, has been consulting, mentoring, and advising startups since 2007.
Past Appearances (book now):
- Founders Institute Mentor and Startup Evangelist
- Get to know your Tech Ecosystem
- Startup Grind
- Seattle Tech Days (Eastern European Business Association)
- Developing a Fundraising Strategy (Galvanize Seattle)
- Global Alternative Funding Forum
- Keiretsu Capital – Angel Expo & Bootcamp
- Speaking at several events in Norway. If you’re in Oslo or Bergen, reach out.
- Boulder Startup Week
- Fundraising strategy (Jolkona Catalyst guest lecture)
- Fundraising strategy (San Francisco’s Mind the Bridge Startup School)
- NACO Regional
- Corporate investment group workshops, speeches, and book distribution (have me out to your company)
- Class: Building an angel portfolio
- Guest Speaker Buerk Entrepreneurship Angel Investing MBA Course
- AMA: Finding angel deal flow
- Private investment group (have me out to your company)
- Podcast: Financial Poise
- Podcast:The law of startup podcast
- Podcast: Craftsman Founder Podcast
- Podcast: Angel Insights Podcast
- Podcast: Inside the Minds of Startup Investors
- Podcast: Female Funders Radio – Episode #3
- Podcast: The Pitch podcast w/Seth Levine & Videopath
- Guest Article: TechCrunch – New law changes the liquidity game for tech company founders, workers and investors
- Guest Article: Financial Poise – A Few Minutes With … Josh Maher, Investor and Author of Startup Wealth
- Guest Article: The law of startups blog – Why write a book on angel investing?
- Guest Article: Eliot Peper guest blog post – 3 tips for building a startup investment portfolio
- Guest Article: WTIA guest post – Just who is the right investor? A breakdown of different types of angel investors
- Guest Article: GeekWire – Book excerpt: How the Best Angel Investors Make Money in Startups
- Stocktwits Seattle Meetup
- Female Funders breakfast series
- Startup Wealth for Angels: Developing your portfolio strategy
- Capital Investment Network (have me out to your angel group or venture firm)
- Keynote – Accelerating Startup Ecosystem Growth: Hosted by Capital Mission (City of Victoria, Tectoria, CIN, uVic, and BC, CA)
- SURGE Tacoma
- Capital Advantage
- Startup Wealth for Entrepreneurs: Executing your fundraising strategy
- University of Washington Venture Capital Investment Competition judge 2015
- Startup Wealth for Entrepreneurs: Developing your fundraising strategy
- Post Seed Conference (SF)
- Seattle Angel Conference VIII keynote
- Seattle Startup Week – pick the brains of local investors
- New Tech Seattle
- Seattle Startup Week Office Hours
- Stocktoberfest (2015)
- Microsoft Women’s investing group 2015
- Angel Investing in the NorthWest 2015
- Stocktwits Seattle 2015
- Judge/Mentor WTIA First Look Forum 2013, 2014, 2015
- MITEFnw Meet the Angels 2015
- Judge: Seattle U Business Plan Competition 2015
- Judge: Zino Zillionaire 2014, Zino Pitch Tank 2015
- Judge: UW Business Plan Competition 2007, 2008, 2013, 2014, 2015
- Microsoft Investing Club 2014
- Seattle Angel Conference III, IV, V
- Startup Week Seattle 2014
- REAPS Commercial Real Estate forum 2013
- Ignite Seattle 18
- Speaker/moderator TechCafe 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013
- Various Seattle meetups and panels on investing (too many to list them all)
Follow Josh on twitter (@joshmaher) or find out more about Josh at http://about.me/JoshMaher