Join FountainBlue's community for high tech entrepreneurs.
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.
July 14 Theme: Building Your FaceBook Application Business
With the huge success of FaceBook and the number and range of active Web 2.0 communities, many a high tech entrepreneur is investigating the opportunities around application development leveraging the FaceBook Open API. This month’s session will profile some of these companies as they successfully build their FaceBook application business.
The panel will address:
·The technology challenges of integrating into the FaceBook Open API;
·The business challenges of developing revenue models for their application; and
·The marketing and sales challenges of building visibility and traction for their application.
Moderator: Jeff Harrell, Partner, Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman, LLP
·Siqi Chen, Creator, ‘Friends for Sale’ App for FaceBook
·Jason Holloway, CEO, Face It!
For Late and On-Site Registrations
High Tech Entrepreneurs include:
Hardware, including semiconductors, communications including wireless networks, telephony
Software, including Web and internet, software as a service, open source, etc.,
Media Convergence, including telephony, wireless, etc.,
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 Pillsbury Winthrop Pittman & Shaw LLP for their support and sponsorship of our high tech entrepreneurs' forums. The events will be held in their Palo Alto offices at 2475 Hanover Street.
We are grateful to our sponsors for their ongoing support.
We are pleased to acknowledge our past and upcoming panelists, and our topics and themes for our 2008 high tech entrepreneurs' forum.
Panelist Sara Rauchwerger, BG Strategy and Chamber of Commerce International Consortium for Entrepreneurs
Panelist Henry Wong, Diamond TechVentures and Garage Technology Ventures
Monday, June 16
Entrepreneur Success Stories: From Idea to Exit
Moderator: Allison Leopold Tilley, Partner, Co-Head, Corporate Securities & Technology, Pillsbury Panelists: • 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, <<BSP - Successful Entrepreneur Panel - Speaker Bios - 6.16.08.doc>> , Inc.;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
Facilitator Jeff Harrell, Partner, Pillsbury Winthrop Pittman & Shaw LLP Other Panelists to be confirmed
Monday, August 11
Selling SAAS to the Enterprise
Facilitator Chuck Devita, Growth Process Group Inc. Panelist Michael Shepherd, GrowthPoint Technology Partners Other Panelists to be confirmed
Monday, September 8
Going Mobile
Panelist Code Cubbitt, Investment Manager, Motorola Ventures Panelist Jennifer Gill Roberts, Partner, Maven Ventures Panelist Phil Yerkes, Movaya
Monday, October 13
Hardware Breakthroughs: Chip Design, Robotics and more
Facilitator from sponsor organization Other Panelists to be confirmed
Monday, November 10
Managing the Start-up Board
Panelists to be confirmed
Monday, December 8
Technology Predictions for 2009
Panelists to be confirmed Lars Leckie, Partner, Hummer Winblad
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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