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SUMMARY:CrowFunder - Where is the love ?
DESCRIPTION:[button id="" style="filled" class="" align="center" link="https://www.eventbrite.com/e/crowdfunder-where-is-the-love-tickets-6554210821?ref=ebtnebregn" linkTarget="_blank" bgColor="accent1" hover_color="accent2" font="24" icon="" icon_placement="left" icon_color=""]LEARN MORE[/button]\n\n \n\nKey Note and Panel Discussion\n\n \n\nThe investment community has been reaping the benefits from the success of their portfolio\ncompanies. Are those days over for the Venture Capitalist\, Angel Investor\, Investment bankers or any\nother institutional investor? Can anyone become an investor if they join a crowdfunding platform.  Is\ncrowdfunding just a new buzzword or the wave of the future that can help the startup community find\ninvestments quicker and easier?\n\nCrowdfunding is moving to become a reality as SEC is likely to approve a set of guidelines\, this\nsummer\, that will allow anyone to participate in an investment opportunity including aunt Jessica\,\nuncle Bill\, or a stranger you never met before. It is an exciting opportunity for everyone to join the big\nleague investors community. However\, do these new investors understand how to select the right\ninvestment opportunity?\n\nThere are two sides to a coin and thus there are two sides to crowdfunding.  Does aunt Jessica\nknow how to evaluate an investment leveraging on the crowdfunding platform and will the startup\ncompany really want to give aunt Jessica let alone a crowdfunding group equity in their company?\n\nFuture Investors are you ready to invest? join us to learn How to Fall in Love with an investment\nopportunity from experts investors with proven success records.  Entrepreneurs\, startups and any\ncompany looking for funding join us to see why you need to also Fall in Love with your Investors in\nthe big league or the new crowdfunding groups.\n\nA real live pitching session will take place to give you access to the secrets of how to find a\nsuccessful investment.\n\nPitch Session\n\n \n\nCalling the startup community wishing to pitch to a live audience and investors to submit:\n\n \n\n\t  Pitch deck of no more then 10 slides\n\n\t  A 25 words or less elevator pitch\n\n\t  Both Deck and elevator pitch should be sent to info@techlabcenter.com\n\n\t  Submission Deadline noon May 29\, 2013.\n\n\n\nRequirements:.\n\nTo qualify\, companies must have a product or service that is no longer in an idea stage\nCompanies must be ready for further development or can launch into the market place.\n\nOnly eligible companies that make it through a rigid selection process will be able to pitch. Maximum\nof 5 companies will be eligible. Pitching is FREE if qualified.\n\nVenue:\nDraper University of Heroes\n44 East 3rd Avenue\nSan Mateo\, CA 94401\n\nGeneral Event Information/Agenda:\n3:30 p.m. - 4:00 p.m. Registration\n\n4:00 p.m. - 4:05 p.m. Introduction\n\n4:05 p.m. - 4:30 p.m  Keynote with\n\n\tTim Draper\, Founder and Managing Director\, DFJ\n\n\n4:30 p.m. - 5:30 p.m. Panel Discussion:  Where is the Love? What hope does Aunt Jessica have in\ngenerating returns on her  investment or finding the next Google?\,\n\n\n\tBill Reichert\, Managing Director\, Garage Technology Venture\n\n\tChance Barnette\, CEO\, Crowdfunder\n\n\tSteve Bennet\, Lecturer College of Business\, SJSU\, Angel Investor\n\n\tAdam Draper\, Founder & CEO\, Boost VC\n\n\tManthi Nguyen\, Investor\, Sand Hill Angels\n\n5:30 p.m. - 5:45 p.m. Break\n\n5:45 p.m. - 7:00 p.m Pitch Session  Can you pick the winner?   Why Invest in the Deal?  Let's Invest?\nJudges:\n\n\n\tTony Seba\, Author/Lecturer/Investor\, USAsia Venture Partner\n\n\tDino Vendetti\, Managing Director\, Formative Ventures\n\n\tAndy Wong\, Hoya Corporation Japan\, Hoya Holding\n\n\tAdam Levin\, Associate\, Crosslink Venture\n\n\tAjit Desphande\, Partner\, Opus Capital Partner\n\nPresenting Companies TBA\n7:00 p.m. - Reception\n\nBio's\n\n \n\nTim Draper invested in and contributed to the development of Skype (acquired by eBay\, now sold to\nMicrosoft)\, Baidu\, Overture (acquired by Yahoo!)\, Parametric Technology\, Hotmail (acquired by\nMicrosoft)\, Tumbleweed Communications\, PLX Technologies\, Digidesign (acquired by Avid)\,\nPreview Travel (acquired by Travelocity)\, Four11 (acquired by Yahoo!)\, Combinet (acquired by Cisco)\,\nand Redgate (acquired by AOL)\, among others.\n\nDraper launched the DFJ Global Network\, an international network of venture capital funds with\noffices in more than thirty cities around the globe. He founded or co-founded Wasatch Ventures (Salt\nLake City)\, Zone Ventures (LA)\, Draper Atlantic (Reston)\, Draper Triangle (Pittsburgh)\, Timberline\nVentures (Woodland\, WA)\, DFJ EPlanet (global)\, Polaris Fund (Anchorage)\, Draper Fisher Jurvetson\nGotham (NYC)\, DFJ Frontier (Sacramento and Santa Barbara)\, and DFJ Dragon (Shanghai). Draper\nis featured as a keynote speaker in entrepreneurial conferences worldwide.\n\nDraper is Founder and Chair Emeritus for The BizWorld Foundation that develops programs that\nteach children about business\, entrepreneurship and finance in the US and around the world.\n\nHe served on the California State Board of Education in 1998–99. He launched a statewide cyber-\ninitiative on school choice for the November 2000 California General Election.\n\nDraper has a BS in Electrical Engineering from Stanford University\, and an MBA from Harvard\nBusiness School.\n\nDraper is a recurring star in The Naked Brothers Band TV series on Nickelodeon as Principal\nSchmoke. Draper is the uncle to the show’s stars\, Nat and Alex Wolff. Moreover\, his sister\nactress/writer Polly Draper created and produced the show. His children—actress Jesse Draper\,\nAdam Draper\, Billy Draper\, and Eleanor Draper—also have starring roles in the project.\n\nDraper is also a global board member of Endeavor and a member of the board of directors of Wigix\,\nInc.\n\nDraper was named an Honorary Patron of the University Philosophical Society\, Trinity College\,\nDublin.\n\nBill Reichert has over 20 years of experience as an entrepreneur and an operating executive. Since\njoining Garage in 1998\, Bill has focused on early-stage information technology and materials\nscience companies. He sits on the Boards of CaseStack\, WhiteHat\, ClearFuels\, cFares\, and\nThermoCeramix. Prior to Garage\, Bill was a co-founder or senior executive in several venture-backed\ntechnology startups\, including Trademark Software\, The Learning Company\, and Academic\nSystems. Earlier in his career\, he worked at McKinsey & Company\, Brown Brothers Harriman &\nCo.\, and the World Bank.\n\nBill earned a B.A. at Harvard College and an M.B.A. from Stanford University. He was a founding\nboard member and a Chairman of the Churchill Club\, and a Charter Member of the Silicon Valley\nAssociation of Startup Entrepreneurs. Currently he is the Chairman of the Small Fund Roundtable of\nthe VC Taskforce and a member of the Council on Foreign Relations in New York.\n\nSteve Bennet is founder and managing director of Bodega Partners and is an active participant in\nthe Silicon Valley entrepreneurial ecosystem as start-up CFO\, Angel Investor\, and Professor.\n\nOver the past 20 years\, he has been CFO\, investor\, and/or board member of over 50 technology start-\nups\, primarily in the software\, Internet\, and mobile sectors. CFO roles include Revel Systems\,\niControl Networks\, Appstores (acquired by InMobi)\, Greystripe (acquired by ValueClick)\, Fliqz\n(acquired by VBrick Systems)\, Valchemy (acquired by IBM)\, GolfWeb (acquired by CBS Sportsline)\,\nOrbital Data (acquired by Citrix)\, TextDigger (acquired by Federated Media)\, and Pharmacy TV\nNetwork (acquired by RMG Networks). Some of these resulted in excellent financial returns to\nfounders and investors\, while others did not.\n\nSteve has a passion for both entrepreneurship and education. He has taught entrepreneurial\nfinance since 1995 and is currently adjunct faculty at San Jose State University. Previously\, he was a\nlecturer at U.C. Berkeley. His focus is on experiential education and has developed new courses at\nSJSU\, including the Entrepreneurship Lab (ELAB)\, Venture Lab (VLAB)\, and the Silicon Valley\nExperience. He is also on the Steering Committee for the Silicon Valley Center for Entrepreneurship\nand UCLA Venture Capital Fund.\n\nPrior to and concurrent with Bodega\, Steve was a Venture Partner at Outlook Ventures\, Board\nMember of Sand Hill Angels\, Partner at Menlo Incubator and held various financial and management\npositions at Bay Logics\, Digital Microwave\, and Arthur Andersen.\n\nSteve earned an undergraduate degree in economics from the Wharton School at the University of\nPennsylvania and MBA from the Anderson School at UCLA. He blogs at www.professorvc.com and\ntweets @ProfessorVC.\n\nManthi Nguyen has over twenty five years of diverse experience in all functions of managing and\ngrowing businesses with capital efficiency and operational effectiveness in a wide range of\nindustries: real-time control systems\, telecommunications and networking\, Internet services\,\npublishing\, heath and fitness\, and manufacturing.\n\nIn the early part of her career\, Manthi joined General Motors Advanced Manufacturing Research in\ndeveloping technologies for office and factory automation. She participated in developing\ninternational standards for Open System Interconnect with National Institute of Standard and\nTechnology (NIST). Manthi was involved in a series of early startup developing routing and\nnetworking technologies that were later acquired by NEC\, Cabletron\, Tut Systems\, and Cisco. In the\nlast 10 years\, Manthi has brought her executive experience to focus on small businesses.\n\nManthi Nguyen received her BSEE from University of Washington\, and her MBA from University of\nMichigan.\n\nTony Seba is the author of the book Solar Trillions Create Wealth\, Grow the Economy\, Save the\nWorld. He is a lecturer at Stanford University in entrepreneurship\, high tech strategy and finance. He\nis a founding executive of a Silicon Valley solar startup company and the author of Winners Take All -\n9 Fundamental Rules of High Tech Strategy. Mr. Seba is a strategy consultant\, business architect\,\nand internationally known public speaker who also teaches at leading institutions around the world\nsuch as The Auckland University (New Zealand) Business School and in-company at some of the\nworld's top high tech companies such as Google\, Inc.  Mr. Seba was the award-winning founder and\nCEO of PrintNation.com\, where he raised more than $30 million in venture capital and established it\nas the leader in its market segment. Prior to PrintNation\, Mr. Seba worked in business development\nand strategic planning at Cisco Systems and RSA Data Security. He is also on several boards of\nadvisors and directors. Mr. Seba holds an MBA from Stanford University Graduate School of\nBusiness and a BS in Computer Science and Engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of\nTechnology.\n\nDino J. Vendetti has been the Managing Director and General Partner at Formative Ventures\, LLC\nsince July 2006. Mr. Vendetti has over 20 years of operating and investment experience. He is an\nexperienced operating executive who spent the majority of his career in marketing\, business\ndevelopment\, and engineering roles at start ups\, including Qualcomm. His investment and board\nleadership experience includes\, Staccato Communications\, Cswitch\, PulseWave RF\, Northpoint\nCommunications\, and Wavetrace. Mr. Vendetti was a General Partner at Bay Partners and Bay\nPartners XI\, L.P. He was Equity Analyst of RBC Capital Markets\, LLC\, Research Division. At Bay\nPartners\, Mr. Vendetti specialized in wireless equipment\, software\, services\, semiconductors\, and\ncommunications equipment. He was Investment Professional of Vulcan Capital.\n\nHe began his venture capital career in 1997 as an Investing Partner at Vulcan Ventures\, where Mr.\nVendetti invested in a variety of telecom\, internet\, and wireless companies including Northpoint\,\nWavetrace\, Go2Net\, Allegiance Telecom\, and Sharewave and served for four years. Prior to Vulcan\,\nhe was a Vice President and Research Analyst at Dain Rauscher\, where Mr. Vendetti covered the\ntelecom industry. Prior to embarking on a venture capital career that has spanned nearly a decade\,\nhe held a variety of key operating roles at some of the communications industry’s leading\ncompanies. Mr. Vendetti was a Vice President of Product Management at MetaWave. He also held\nproduct management and business development positions at Qualcomm Incorporated\, where Mr.\nVendetti was responsible for the global infrastructure product line and U.S. West Cellular.\n\nHe began his operating career as an Engineer at TRW\, where Mr. Vendetti designed satellite\ncommunication systems. He serves as a Director of Kontiki\, Inc.\, PulseWave RF\, Inc.\, Prophesi\,\nWavetrace\, Staccato Communications\, Steridian Corp.\, Allegiance Telecom\, Inc.\, Turin Networks\,\nEightfold Logic\, Inc.\, Veebeam Limited\, and Enquisite\, Inc. Mr. Vendetti served as a Director of\nNorthPoint Communications Group\, Inc. since February 1999. He served as a Director of Pixo\, Inc.\,\nCapella Photonics\, Inc.\, Telesym\, Inc.\, Magis Networks\, Inc.\, Cswitch Corporation\, Force10\nNetworks\, Inc. and HarvardNet Inc. He is on the advisory board for the Economic Development\nCouncil for Central Oregon\, and is an advisor and mentor to the Tech Space of Bend Accelerator. He\nhas served on the board of the Center for Entrepreneurship and Innovation at the University of\nWashington and has given guest lectures at the University of Washington\, USF\, and UC Berkeley on\nvarious topics.\n\nMr. Vendetti earned an M.S.E.E. and M.B.A. degrees from the University of Washington and a\nBachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering from San Diego State University.\n\nAndy Wong is the head of Business Development of Hoya Holdings\, the US Headquarters of Hoya\nCorporation\, which is a US$5 Billion international conglomerate.  In this capacity\, he is responsible\nfor deal sourcing\, screening\, investment proposal\, due diligence\, investment funding\, mergers and\nacquisitions\, and portfolio management.  Since joining Hoya in 1998\, Andy has held various senior\nmanagement positions including the President of Hoya Xponent\, Senior Vice President of Strategic\nCorporate Development\, and Chief Operating Officer of Hoya Corporation USA.  Prior to joining Hoya\,\nAndy was the co-founder and Chief Operating Officer of STI\, a startup company in consumer\ntelecommunication.\n\nAndy has over 20 years of experience in strategic development\, sales and marketing\, finance\,\noperations\, senior management responsibility in both startups and matrixed global organizations\nwith full P&L responsibility.  He is an international player with extensive experience in cross-border\ntransactions.  He speaks fluent Cantonese and basic Mandarin.\n\nAndy has served as the board of directors of 4 different businesses as well as board observer at\nsome companies he works with.  He received a Bachelor of Science Degree in Business\nAdministration from San Jose State University.\n\nAjit Deshpande is a senior associate for Opus Capital\, where he sources and evaluates investment\nopportunities and contributes business and technical assistance to portfolio companies.\n\nAjit is an MBA graduate from the Haas School of Business at UC Berkeley and is a Kauffman Fellow\,\nClass 17. Prior to business school\, Ajit worked for eight years in engineering/operations roles in\nsemiconductors and cleantech and recently had stints in internal corporate venturing\, angel\ninvesting and technology investment banking. Immediately prior to joining Opus Capital\, Ajit\nconsulted with a startup in the cellular cloud access and network services space to help develop its\ngo-to-market strategy in preparation for venture fundraising.\n\nAjit has a broad-based interest in the technology sector and is especially excited about new\ninvestment avenues being created by rapid strides in device connectivity\, data computation\, and\nstorage.\n\nIn addition to his MBA\, Ajit holds Bachelor’s and Master’s degrees in mechanical engineering from\nIIT Bombay and Stanford University\, respectively. Ajit is an avid long-distance runner\, having\ncompleted three marathons and four 199-mile-12-person relay runs. He has been involved in\nfundraising for literacy initiatives in rural India. He also enjoys playing badminton\, dabbling with the\npiano\, and believing in a bright future for the Golden State Warriors.
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