Audience: Entrepreneurs,
intrapreneurs and investors, no service providers please.
Entrepreneur
Success Stories
The stock markets are down, salaries are down and job
security is low, which means that stress levels are high, as is unemployment.
But it is the nature of Silicon Valley entrepreneurs to be resilient and remain
optimistic despite all the bad news. Our rich infrastructure, integrated
network, robust technologies and entrepreneurial culture support that
optimistic nature. An integral part of that resilient entrepreneurial outlook
is the success stories of entrepreneurial firms launched in partnership with
corporate venture partners. This month, we will feature a panel of successful
entrepreneurs, who attribute their success in part to the partnerships they
developed working with key corporate partners.
Our panel will
feature:
Facilitator Sara Rauchwerger, CCICE and BG
Strategy
Panelist Matthew Denesuk, Partner, IBM Venture
Capital Group
Panelist
Victoria
Livschitz, CEO, Grid Dynamics
Consulting Services
Panelist
Mythili Sankaran, CEO, Koollage
Panelist
Lynda Ting, Director, Emerging Business Team, Microsoft
Entrepreneur
Panelist to be confirmed
FountainBlue
offers networking, education and support for entrepreneurs in the
Silicon Valley by conducting monthly entrepreneurs' forums for high
tech and life science and clean energy entrepreneurs. These
monthly evening meetings are designed to share successes and challenges
in a safe environment, focused on helping fellow members run and grow
their entrepreneurial ventures.
About Our High Tech Entrepreneurs' Forums
FountainBlue's
High Tech Entrepreneurs' Forums are open to high tech entrepreneurs
& their teams (such as staff members, advisers, board members or
investors) with a wide range of entrepreneurial experience, at various
stages of growing or supporting a new or existing entrepreneurial
venture. In general, the program topics for the first six months of the
year are focused on securing funds for high tech organizations while
the topics for the second six months of the year focus more on
executing and running a business. See notes from our previous sessions. High Tech Entrepreneurs include:
Enterprise Software Solutions
Digital Media Technology, including visualization, gaming, media analytics
Communications, including networking, mobile, wireless, and security
Semiconductor, including electronic devices, chip design
Who Is Invited
Please note that we help ensure the quality of our programs by strictly restricting attendance to entrepreneurs and investors only, no service providers, except for presenters and sponsors, which are limited and by invitation only. We thank you in advance for respecting our policy.
Rough Meeting Agenda
5:30 Registration, Appetizers and Networking
6:00 Welcomes and Introductions
6:15 Facilitator Comments and Panelist Introductions
6:20 Interactive Panelist Discussion
6:50 Questions from the Audience
7:25 Final Comments from Facilitators
7:30 Thank Yous and Close, Networking
Sponsorship and Location
We are grateful to our sponsors at the TIPS Group for their ongoing support of FountainBlue's High Tech Entrepreneurs' Forum. Our work is not possible without their support and we would encourage you to consider their services. http://www.tipsgroup.com. Our monthly events will be held at their Silicon Valley Offices at 1000 Elwell Court, Suite 150, Palo Alto or at partner high tech corporations across the valley.
Below
is a list of our topics and speakers for 2009. Please e-mail us if you
are an entrepreneur or intrapreneur or investor and interested in
participating on one of our upcoming panels, and we will forward your
recommendation to our facilitator.
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 Andrι 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 Mythili Sankaran, CEO, Koollage
Panelist Lynda Ting, Director, Emerging Business Team, Microsoft
Entrepreneur Panelist to be confirmed
Monday, July 13
Holiday Break
Thursday,
August 20
Friday, August 21
Silicon Valley
Economic Development Summit: Mobile
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 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 Katya Stesin, Serial Entrepreneur and Founder and CEO of recently funded Razoom
We are grateful to the many members of the Silicon Valley community who participated as volunteer panelists for the 2007 high tech entrepreneurs' forums and proudly acknowledge them below.
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
We are grateful to each of our 2006 facilitators and panelists for their participation and support and proudly acknowledge them below.
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 to the Next Level
Chuck DeVita, Growth Process Group
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