Launched in March 2006, FountainBlue's high tech entrepreneurs' forum gathered monthly to feature panels speaking on a range of high tech issues, gathering entrepreneurs, intrapreneurs and investors. Our last monthly event was in September 2008, but we now hold annual events featuring angel panels in January, a freemium-to-premium event in March, an M&A event in May, a virtual worlds event in September and a data analytics event in October.
Below are registration and invitation details as well as calendars for our past events. Also click on the HighTechNotes link from our sub-menu to see notes from our past sessions.
About FountainBlue's High Tech Entrepreneur Series FountainBlue's High Tech Entrepreneurs' Forum was launched in March 2006 and has continued to grow and become an exceptionally high value entrepreneur event in Silicon Valley. These events routinely attract between 50-150 high tech entrepreneurs, intrapreneurs and investors. We run an annual angel panel in January, an annual free-mium-to-premium event in March, an annual M&A event in May, an annual virtual worlds conference in September and an annual data analytics event in November. We also encourage early stage, funding-bound high tech entrepreneurs to attend our spring or fall/winter funding road trip workshops, a three-month series which prepares entrepreneurs for meetings with investors, culminating in a live pitch to active investors.
To sign up for our free high tech mailing list, complete the form above or e-mail us at info@sventrepreneurs.com.
To join our program team for an upcoming event, e-mail us at volunteer@sventrepreneurs.com.
To partner with us in promoting the events to your network of early stage entrepreneurs, e-mail us at events@fountainblue.biz.
To discuss sponsorship opportunities or a specific event in the series, e-mail our CEO at Linda.Holroyd@FountainBlue.biz
Members of FountainBlue may meet with us to discuss their entrepreneurial venture by clicking on our availability link at http://www.meetwithme.com/lindaholroyd
Below is a list of past and upcoming high tech entrepreneur events and conferences for 2010.
Date
Title
Speakers
Description
Monday,
January 18, at Hacker Dojo
Angel Investor Panel - Technology Trends, Conducted in
Partnership with Stanford BASES
Facilitator
Bill Reichert, Managing Director, Garage Technology Ventures
Panelist
Jim Connor, Board Member, Sand Hill Angels
Panelist
Edward Esber, Angels Forum and Halo Fund
Panelist
Ann Miura-Ko, Partner, Maples Investments, Ph.D. candidate in the Management
Science and Engineering Department at Stanford University
Panelist
Steven Borochoff, Sand Hill Angels
High
Tech angel investors are generally seasoned executives with deep strategic
and operational experience in running successful start-ups as well as
extensive experience within corporations in various roles. The angel
investors we’ve recruited for this month’s panel have been seen a wide range
of high tech business plans, and have their own thoughts and recommendations
on technology trends for 2009 – what will get funded, where the markets and
business is heading, how to be successful in these challenging times. As part
of this program, we will also have investor-led small group discussions on
specific high tech sub-industries including Enterprise Software Solutions,
Digital Media Technology, including visualization, gaming, media analytics,
Communications, including networking, mobile, wireless, and security and
Hardware and Semiconductor, including electronic devices, chip design.
Panelist
Mihir Nanavati, General Manager, Small Office/Home Office, YouSendIt
Panelist
Donna Novitsky, CEO, BigTent
Experienced
entrepreneurs still standing after the recent tsunami know that you have to
prove you can be resourceful and build product and sign on customers despite
the economic conditions! A popular way to bring in customers, gather feedback
and build momentum is to adopt a ‘free-mium to premium’ model, letting most
users try basic versions of a solution for free and incentivizing some to
upgrade to full-featured functionality, paying for the service. But rare is
the company able to successful do this. This panel will feature
entrepreneurial companies who have done this and are willing to share their
secrets.
FountainBlue
is pleased to launch its spring 2010 Funding Road Trip Series, the first of a
three-month workshop series serving high tech, clean energy and life science
entrepreneurs within Silicon Valley. Begun in spring 2008, our workshop
series is designed to help entrepreneurs think through their company’s
offerings as well as the market opportunity, and then communicate that opportunity
succinctly and compellingly to strategic investors.
This first workshop of this spring 2010 series focuses on ‘Your Positioning’,
with modules on top ten mistakes in business plans and positioning. Our April
2 follow-up workshop will focus on the pitch to investors and our May 7
workshop will feature presentations to angel and other investors.
Before you can pitch your company to raise funds or attract strategic
partners and alliances, you've got to perfect your positioning. This session
will provide you with a systematic approach to help you better determine your
all important market definition and value propositions. This program features
a hard-copy, walk-away tool that helps define these for a technology based
start-up company and also includes powerful and practical techniques from
market research pros to validate your customers’ real pain points and the
value of your painkiller. Participants will be taught how to use this tool
which is based on a case-study example of a real startup
FountainBlue
cordially invites high tech, life science and clean energy entrepreneurs to
the second funding preparation workshop entitled ‘Perfecting Your Pitch to
Investors’. This hands-on workshop, which follows the first workshop entitled
‘Your Company’s Value Proposition’, will take entrepreneurs through the
process of creating and delivering a compelling elevator pitch, a one-page
executive summary and a 13-15 slide company overview presentation. Attendance
at one of the two workshops in the series is a pre-requisite to attending our
third and final workshop in the series, ‘Your Meeting with Investors’, which
features feedback from active investors.
For this workshop, working in partnership with fellow entrepreneurs in
similar, non-competing spaces, participating entrepreneurs will have the
opportunity to learn best practices and immediately apply these learnings to
their own companies. Whether you are a serial entrepreneur, or someone who
may be considering a future opportunity, you are sure to benefit from the
information presented, the connections made and the peer-to-peer knowledge
shared.
Whether you are a serial entrepreneur, or someone playing with an idea in the
back of your mind, you are sure to benefit from the information presented,
the connections made and the peer-to-peer knowledge shared.
For more information about FountainBlue’s Funding Road Trip Series including
testimonials and speaker bios, please visit
http://www.fountainblue.biz/fundingroadtrip.html.
Friday,
May 7, at Cooley Godward
Your Meeting with Investors
Bill
Joos, Go to Market Consulting
This
invitation-only pitch-to-investors workshop is for high tech, life science
and clean energy entrepreneurs who have attended the first two workshops in
the series, and have successfully created a value proposition, and practiced
their pitch to investors. During this third and final workshop in the series,
Bill Joos will help you understand how to manage the three critical
components of the initial meeting with an investor: your pre-meeting
homework, meeting dynamics and management, and the post-meeting follow up.
FountainBlue will invite investors who are actively investing in the spaces
of the participating entrepreneurs for real time, measured feedback on
pitches. Whether you are a serial entrepreneur, or someone who may be
considering a future opportunity, you are sure to benefit from the
information presented, the connections made and the peer-to-peer knowledge
shared.
Presentation Format for the Pitch and Meeting Event:
Each presentation will be broken down roughly as follows:
• Two minutes, verbal presentation, no interruptions, no handouts or slides
• Two minutes for investor judges to complete questions #1-7 on the
evaluation form
• Five minutes of questions from investors
• Two minutes for investors to complete questions #8-9 on the evaluation form
• Five minutes of constructive feedback from judges to the presenter
Whether you are a serial entrepreneur, or someone playing with an idea in the
back of your mind, you are sure to benefit from the information presented,
the connections made and the peer-to-peer knowledge shared.
Thursday,
June 10, at Symantec
Annual M&A Trends Event
Today's
Technology Innovations: An Update on What's New and What's Coming
Facilitator
Steve Bengston, Managing Director, Emerging Technologies, PWC
Rudy
Burger, Managing Partner, Woodside Capital Partners
James
Peacock, Chairman and CEO, NociMed
Roger
Royse, Royse Law Firm PC
Corporate
Development Panel: M&A Successes and Strategies
Facilitator
Edmund Becmer, Partner, CFOs2Go, President, FEI SV Chapter
Shekar Ayyar,
Vice President, Strategy and Corporate Development, VMware
Todson
Page, M&A Partner, PWC
Charlie
Rice, VP Corporate Development,
Symantec
Lily
Stoyanovski, Managing Director, Marrod Group, formerly with Oracle, Gilead
Science and Accenture
Entrepreneur
Panel: Secrets for Successful Exits:
Facilitator
Roger Royse, Royse Law Firm PC
Dr.
Aaron Berez, CEO, Chestnut Medical
Steve
Hoffman, Publisher & Cofounder of Founders Space and a Partner in
LavaMind, web games and applications
Betty
Kayton, CFO, AdMarvel (sold to Opera Software), mobile advertising
Lily
Stoyanovski, Managing Director, Marrod Group, formerly with Oracle, Gilead
Science and Accenture
FountainBlue
is pleased to launch annual Trends in M&A event designed to feature 1)
academics and researchers highlighting some of the latest technologies, 2)
executives profiling their acquisition strategies and 3) entrepreneurs who
had successfully grown their companies from concept to acquisition. We hope
that you will join us to understand the business and technology innovations
of today, and position your early stage company for strategic partnerships
and exits for tomorrow.
Friday,
September 24, at Cisco
State of the Virtual Worlds Industry
Trends
in the Virtual Worlds Industry: An Update on What’s New and What’s Coming
Facilitator Jeff Pope, Founding
Partner, Spark Sky Ventures
Tim Chang, Principal, Norwest
Ventures
David Helgason, CEO and
Co-Founder, Unity
Chris Platz, Creative Director
and Art Lead, Stanford Sirikata Labs
Eilif Trondsen, Research and
Program Director of the Virtual Worlds @ Work Consortium at Strategic
Business Insights
Mark Wallace, Conversation
Manager, Linden Lab
Corporate
Panel: Serving Customers, Building Communities, Training Users
Facilitator Dennis Shiao,
Director of Product Marketing, INXPO
Mic Bowman, Intel
Dannette Veale, Global Virtual
Event Strategist, Cisco, Lead, Virtual Component, Cisco Live
Panelist from CITRIX to be
confirmed
Panelist from IBM to be
confirmed
Panelist from Sony to be
confirmed
Entrepreneur
Panel: The Tools, The Goods, The Immersion Experience
Facilitator Nina Gerwin, The
NRG Group
Michael Gold, CEO, Electrotank:
virtual world & virtual games development platform
Steve Hoffman, CEO, Rocketon:
virtual world for tweeners
Albert Kim, CEO, Zenitum:
Augmented reality with 3D displays
Jim Parker, President,
Digitell: SaaS 3D immersive virtual events and virtual training
Reuben Steiger, Founder and
Chairman, Virtual Greats
Second
Annual State of the Virtual Worlds Industry Event
FountainBlue’s
Second Annual State of the Virtual Worlds Industry conference updates
entrepreneurs, intrapreneurs and investors on the successes, challenges and
trends of the industry overall, and showcases corporate and entrepreneurial
virtual world demos. Beginning with a panel sharing the growth of the
industry from the legal, venture, research and corporate perspectives, the
program will next highlight how leading corporations are leveraging virtual
worlds solutions to better serve their constituents, and culminating in
showcasing early stage, funding-bound virtual worlds entrepreneurs with a
range of solutions pushing the technology and business envelope.
FountainBlue
is pleased to launch its fall 2010 Funding Road Trip Series, the first of a
three-month workshop series serving high tech, clean energy and life science
entrepreneurs within Silicon Valley. Begun in spring 2008, our workshop
series is designed to help entrepreneurs think through their company’s
offerings as well as the market opportunity, and then communicate that
opportunity succinctly and compellingly to strategic investors.
This first workshop of this fall 2010 series focuses on ‘Your Positioning’,
with modules on top ten mistakes in business plans and positioning. Our
November 5 follow-up workshop will focus on the pitch to investors and our
December 3 workshop will feature presentations to angel and other investors.
Before you can pitch your company to raise funds or attract strategic
partners and alliances, you've got to perfect your positioning. This session
will provide you with a systematic approach to help you better determine your
all important market definition and value propositions. This program features
a hard-copy, walk-away tool that helps define these for a technology based start-up
company and also includes powerful and practical techniques from market
research pros to validate your customers’ real pain points and the value of
your painkiller. Participants will be taught how to use this tool which is
based on a case-study example of a real startup
FountainBlue
cordially invites high tech, life science and clean energy entrepreneurs to
the second funding preparation workshop entitled ‘Perfecting Your Pitch to
Investors’. This hands-on workshop, which follows the first workshop entitled
‘Your Company’s Value Proposition’, will take entrepreneurs through the process
of creating and delivering a compelling elevator pitch, a one-page executive
summary and a 13-15 slide company overview presentation. Attendance at one of
the two workshops in the series is a pre-requisite to attending our third and
final workshop in the series, ‘Your Meeting with Investors’, which features
feedback from active investors.
For this workshop, working in partnership with fellow entrepreneurs in
similar, non-competing spaces, participating entrepreneurs will have the
opportunity to learn best practices and immediately apply these learnings to
their own companies. Whether you are a serial entrepreneur, or someone who
may be considering a future opportunity, you are sure to benefit from the
information presented, the connections made and the peer-to-peer knowledge
shared.
Whether you are a serial entrepreneur, or someone playing with an idea in the
back of your mind, you are sure to benefit from the information presented,
the connections made and the peer-to-peer knowledge shared.
November
Date and Location to be confirmed
First
Annual Data Analytics Trends Event
Today’s
Data Analytics Innovations: An Update on What’s New and What’s Coming
Facilitator Analyst to be
confirmed
Investor to be confirmed
Researcher? Academic to be
confirmed
Media person to be confirmed
Corporate
Development Panel: Data Analytics Successes and Strategies
Facilitator to be confirmed
Panelist from VMware to be
confirmed
Panelist from Google to be
confirmed
Panelist from SAP to be
confirmed
Other Corporate Panelists to be
confirmed
Entrepreneur
Panel: Secrets for Successful Exits
We are
in an age of information, where everyone is inundated by volumes of data,
some of which is relevant. The leaders emerging from this era will be able to
real-time collect, analyze, communicate, and most importantly, empower users
to ACT on the data, in collaboration with others. For FountainBlue’s first
annual trends in Data Analytics event, we will feature a trends panel to talk
about technology directions, a corporate development panel to share
strategies and directions companies are taking in this space, as well as a successful
entrepreneur panel, featuring technology leaders who have successfully built
and sold data analytics solutions, and now integrated with larger companies.
This
invitation-only pitch-to-investors workshop is for high tech, life science
and clean energy entrepreneurs who have attended the first two workshops in
the series, and have successfully created a value proposition, and practiced
their pitch to investors. During this third and final workshop in the series,
Bill Joos will help you understand how to manage the three critical
components of the initial meeting with an investor: your pre-meeting
homework, meeting dynamics and management, and the post-meeting follow up.
FountainBlue will invite investors who are actively investing in the spaces
of the participating entrepreneurs for real time, measured feedback on
pitches. Whether you are a serial entrepreneur, or someone who may be
considering a future opportunity, you are sure to benefit from the
information presented, the connections made and the peer-to-peer knowledge
shared.
Presentation Format for the Pitch and Meeting Event:
Each presentation will be broken down roughly as follows:
• Two minutes, verbal presentation, no interruptions, no handouts or slides
• Two minutes for investor judges to complete questions #1-7 on the
evaluation form
• Five minutes of questions from investors
• Two minutes for investors to complete questions #8-9 on the evaluation form
• Five minutes of constructive feedback from judges to the presenter
Whether you are a serial entrepreneur, or someone playing with an idea in the
back of your mind, you are sure to benefit from the information presented,
the connections made and the peer-to-peer knowledge shared.
Below is a list of past and upcoming high tech entrepreneur
events and conferences for 2009.
Date
Title
Facilitator
Monday, January 12 at BASES on the Stanford University Campus
•
Facilitator Brian Boyer, Partner, TIPS Group
• Panelist Jim Connor, President, Sand Hill Angels
• Panelist Ed Esber, Angels Forum and Halo Fund
• Panelist Bill Powar, Member, Keiretsu Forum and General Partner, Emerson
Street Ventures
• Panelist Ron Weissman, Member, Band of Angels
•
Facilitator Jeff Snider, Next Stage - Business Acceleration
• Panelist Lars Buttler, Founder, Chairman & CEO at Trion World
Network, Inc.
• Panelist Patrick Gannon, SVP, Lending Services, Lending Club
• Panelist Ivan Koon, CEO, YouSendIt
• Panelist Axel Schultze, CEO, Xeequa
• Panelist André Sloth Eriksen, Asetek
•
Facilitator Glenn Von Tersch, Partner, TIPS Group
• Panelist Anne-Marie Roussel, Microsoft
• Panelist Robin Harper, Former VP of Marketing and Community Development,
Second Life, Linden Labs
• Panelist Steve Nelson, Executive Vice President, Chief Strategy Officer,
Clear Ink
• Panelist Susan Stucky, Research Manager, IBM
•
Facilitator Sara Rauchwerger, Managing Director, BG Strategy, Founder,
CCICE
• Panelist Henry Sang, Jr., Associate Director, HP Labs Technology Transfer
Office, Hewlett-Packard Company
• Panelist Rodney Bowen-Wright, Director, Business Development, Strategic
and Emerging Business Team, Microsoft
• Panelist Leonard Greenberg, Founder and CTO of Assistyx LLC, past
co-founder and CTO, Pathlore Software Corporation
• Panelist Prashant Shah, Managing Partner, Hummer Winblad
•
Facilitator Sara Rauchwerger, CCICE and BG Strategy
• Panelist Matthew Denesuk, Partner, IBM Venture Capital Group
• Panelist Victoria Livschitz, CEO, Grid Dynamics Consulting Services
• Panelist Pascal Lorne, CEO, Miyowa
• Panelist Lynda Ting, Director, Emerging Business Team, Microsoft
Below is a list of past and upcoming high tech entrepreneur
events and conferences for 2008.
Panelist Deborah Magid, Director, Software Strategy, IBM Venture Capital
Group
Panelist Eghosa D. Omoigui, Esq., Director, Strategic Investments, Consumer
Internet; Semantic Technologies, Intel Capital
Monday,
March 10
Acquiring
Reference Customers
Facilitator
Chuck De Vita, President and CEO, Growth Process Group, LLC
Panelist Marcus Bragg, Vice President, Western Region, Right Now
Technologies
Panelist Jonathan Fisher, Managing Director Teahupoo, LLC; Professor of Business,
University of San Francisco; CEO, Bharosa, Inc. (Acquired by Oracle, Inc.)
Panelist John Hall, Managing Director, Horizon Ventures
Panelist Chris Whitted, VP of Sales at SteelWedge
Panelist Steve Wurzburg, Partner, Pillsbury Winthrop Pittman & Shaw LLP
Monday,
April 14
Web
2.0 - from Consumer to Enterprise Opportunities and Business Models
Facilitator
Gary Benton, Partner, Pillsbury Winthrop Pittman & Shaw LLP
Panelist Dr. Cheemin Bo-Linn, CEO & President,
Peritus Partners
Panelist Lyle Fong, CEO and Co-Founder, Lithium
Panelist Anand Iyer, Developer Evangelist, Microsoft Corporation
Panelist Lars Leckie, Partner, Hummer Winblad Venture Partners
Jonathan Fisher - Professor of Business, University of San Francisco, CEO,
Bharosa, Inc. (Acquired by Oracle, Inc.)
Rajiv Gupta -VP/GM, Policy Management Business Unit, Cisco, Inc.; Founder
& CEO Securent, Inc. (acquired by Cisco); Founder & CEO, Confluent
Software, Inc. (acquired by Oblix, Inc.)
Nand Mulchandani - Sr. Director, Security Products Management &
Marketing, VP, Marketing and Business Development, Determina, Inc. (Acquired
by VMWare, Inc.); Co-Founder & VP, Product Management, Oblix, Inc.
(Acquired by Oracle, Inc.)
Craig Walker - CEO, Grand Central, Inc (acquired by Google, Inc); former
CEO, Dialpad Communications, Inc. (Acquired by Yahoo!)
Monday, July
14
Building Your Facebook
Application Business
Moderator, Jeff
Harrell, Partner, Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman, LLP
Panelists:
Ed Baker, FaceBook entrepreneur for Send Hotness and Compare People,
Founder, Demigo
Marc Burch, co-founder, ComoBlue; Principal, Burch Ventures
Siqi Chen, Creator, ‘Friends for Sale’ App for FaceBook
Jason Holloway, CEO, Face It!
Monday,
August 11
Selling SaaS to
the Enterprise
Facilitator
Chuck DeVita, President, Growth Process Group Inc.
Panelist Stephen Gillette, Partner, Jones Day
Panelist Ken Rudin, CEO and CoFounder, LucidEra
Panelist Chris Whitted, SVP of Sales, Steelwedge
Tuesday, September 9
Trends in the Wireless Industry
Facilitator
David Witkowski, Vice President, Wireless Communications Alliance
Facilitator
David Chen, Corporate Associate, Jones Day
Panelist Matthew Denesuk, Ph.D., Partner, IBM Venture Capital Group
Panelist Brian Martin, Sr. Director, Partner Solution Engineering, Multi-
Product Group (MPG), EMC Corporation
Panelist Jo Anne Miller, Milk Street Ventures
Panelist Henry Sang, Jr., Associate Director, HP Labs Technology Transfer
Office, Hewlett-Packard Company
Panelist John Wolpert, Executive Director, Team upStart, LLC
Monday,
December 8
Technology
Predictions for 2009
Facilitator
Arthur Beeman, Partner, Jones Day LLP
Panelist Gustavo Aray, Senior Investment Manager, Intel Capital
Panelist Tom Foremski, Founder and Editor, Silicon Valley Watcher
Panelist Rebeca Hwang, Director of Network Strategy and Development,
YouNoodle, Member Board of Directors and Chair of Judging California Clean
Tech Open
Panelist Lars Leckie, Principal, Hummer Winblad
Panelist Katya Stesin, Serial Entrepreneur and Founder and CEO of recently
funded Razoom
Below is a list of past and upcoming high tech entrepreneur
events and conferences for 2007.
Date
Title
Facilitator
Monday,
January 8
Investor
Panel - Technology Trends
Marc
Burch, Independent Angel Investor
Steve Bennet, Sand Hill Angels
Clifford Tong, Keiretsu Forum
Ben Wan, Independent Angel Investor
Ron Weissman, Band Of Angels
Monday,
February 12
Successful
Entrepreneur Panel
Steve
Adelman, Nexus Partners
Naveen Bisht, founder/CEO Ukiah Software, currently CEO/founder of Nayna
Networks
Mike Grossman, co-founder/CEO LiveCapital,currently CEO, Tempo Payments, Inc.
Chuck Haas, co-founder Covad, currently CEO and co-Founder of MetroFi
Wendy York-Fess, co-founder MarketSmart, President Electric Minds,
currently COO of IMMI
Monday,
March 12
Corporate
Investments in High Tech Companies
Facilitator,
Antony Awaida from StartLeap Corporation, is a corporate executive and serial
entrepreneur.
Panelist Lisa Lambert, Managing Director, Intel Capital, Software and
Solutions Group
Panelist Cliff Reeves, Emerging Business Team at Microsoft
Panelist Ray Wu, is Director, Strategy and Corporate Development at HP
Monday,
April 9
Successful
Web 2.0 Consumer Business Models
Facilitator,
Steve Bengston, Managing Director, PriceWaterhouseCoopers
Panelist Keith Rabois, VP Business Development, LinkedIn
Panelist Bill Schreiber, Corporate Partner, Fenwick & West
Panelist Jeffrey Walker, CEO, Atlassian
Panelist Karsten Weide, IDC
Panelist Peter Ziebelman from Palo Alto Venture Partners
Friday, May
18
An
Investors' Eyes' View on Trends in High Tech Investing
Facilitator,
Linda Prowse Fosler, Prowse-Fosler and Associates
Panelist Clint Chao, Formative Ventures
Panelist Vish Mishra, Clearstone Ventures
Panelist Rich Simoni, Asset Management Company
Panelist Ted Wang, Fenwick & West
Monday, June
11
Successful
Exits through Acquisition
Susan
Felix, Managing Partner, Felix Consulting
Liam Goudge, Senior VP, Corporate Development & Licensing, Tessera
Andrew Luh, Attorney at Fenwick & West
Diaz Nesamoney, former founder and CEO of Celequest / co-founder, president,
and COO Informatica
Monday, July
9
Developing
Clear Value Propositions
Facilitator
Chuck DeVita, President, Growth Process Group Inc.
Panelist Allen Blue, VP Product Strategy and a Founder at LinkedIn
Panelist John Hall, Managing Director, Horizon Ventures
Panelist John Occhipinti, Managing Director, Woodside Fund
Monday, August
13
The
Role of Process in Early Stage Companies
Facilitator
Jane Divinski, JAD Consulting
Panelist Subutai Ahmad, VP Engineering, Numenta
Panelist Steve Martin, VP of Engineering, Ruckus Wireless
Panelist Jay Michlin, VP of Engineering, OnStor
Panelist Jim Nisbet, Founder and CTO at Tablus
Tuesday,
September 11
Acquiring
Reference Customers
Facilitator
Chuck DeVita, President, Growth Process Group Inc.
Panelist Steve Blank, Commissioner at California Coastal Commission,
Lecturer at Stanford University, Graduate School of Engineering, Director at
IMVU
Panelist John Hall, Managing Director, Horizon Ventures
Panelist Alok Srivastava, CTO at SalesEdge and previously Director of
R&D for Oracle's Collaboration Services group
Monday,
October 8
Integrating
the Sales and Marketing Plan
Facilitator
Diane Wieser, VP of Sales, Clarity Consultants
Panelist Rod Bacon, Founder, EVP of Service Provider Solutions,
MediaPublisher
Panelist Avery Lyford, CEO, DigiSense
Panelist Axel Schultze, CEO, Xeequa
Panelist Jeffrey Walker, President, Atlassian
Monday,
November 12
A
Start-Up's Bottom Line
Facilitator
Ben Park, Founder and CEO, Camfess.com and President, KASE
Panelist Chuck DeVita, President, Growth Process Group Inc., and Adjunct
Professor, Stanford University
Panelist Robert Jurkowski, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer,
Selectica
Panelist Axel Schultze, Founder and CEO, Xeequa
Panelist Henry Wong, Garage.com and Diamond TechVentures
Monday,
December 10
Successfully
Positioning Your High Tech Company
Facilitator
Karen Kang, Karen Kang Consulting
Panelist Glenn Helton, Founder and Partner, Positioning Strategies
Panelist Pamela Kline Smith, former VP of Marketing for LiveOps and
Metreo
Panelist Prashant Shah, Principal, Hummer Winblad Venture Partners
Below is a list of past and upcoming high tech entrepreneur
events and conferences for 2006.
Date
Title
Facilitator
Thursday,
March 9
SV
High Tech Entrepreneurs' Forum
Bill Joos, Go to
Market Consulting
Thursday,
April 20
SV
High Tech Entrepreneurs' Forum
Steve
Adelman, Nexus Partners
Christine Comaford-Lynch, Mighty Ventures
Jenelle Cox, DLA Piper
Monday, May 8
SV
High Tech Entrepreneurs' Forum
Bill
Joos, Go to Market Consulting
Linda Usoz, Kirkpatrick & Lockhart
Monday, June
12
SV
High Tech Entrepreneurs' Forum
Christine
Comaford-Lynch, Mighty Ventures
Linda Usoz, Kirkpatrick & Lockhart
Monday, July
10
SV
High Tech Entrepreneurs' Forum Theme: Sales Strategies for Entrepreneurs
Jeffrey
Walker, Atlassian
Mike Griego, MXL Partners
Linda Usoz, Kirkpatrick & Lockhart
Monday,
August 14
SV
High Tech Entrepreneurs' Forum Theme: Revenue Models
Steve
Adelman, Nexus Partners
Linda Usoz, Kirkpatrick & Lockhart
Monday,
September 11
SV
High Tech Entrepreneurs' Workshop: Semiannual Gathering
Kirkpatrick
& Lockhart
Monday,
October 9
SV
High Tech Entrepreneurs' Forum Theme: Building an Executive Team
Kurt
Amundson;
Linda Usoz, Kirkpatrick & Lockhart
Monday,
November 13
Alternative
Funding Options
Ed
Lambert, Bridge Bank
Dirk Michels, Kirkpatrick & Lockhart
Jake Schwarz, Kirkpatrick & Lockhart
Monday,
December 11
Growing
the business – Taking sales to the next level
