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The Changing Landscape of Early Stage Funding

Angels and other early stage investors are the first to weigh in on the latest innovations, trends, and business models. Listen to today's investment pioneers as they explain what they are looking for in early stage companies. And listen to start-up CEOs who have recently closed funding so you can profit from their experiences. Learn what you should look for in early stage investors, how to find them, and how to structure the early round so you don't make it more difficult to raise the next one!

Wednesday, September 20, 2006
6-6:30 pm: Networking and Hors d'oeuvres
6:30-8 pm: Panel discussion and Q/A

COST: (Includes Hors d'oeuvres Reception)
Members - $20
Affiliates who advertise this event - $20
General Public - $30

Walk-ins: add $5 to rates above

LOCATION: Oracle Corporation, 4500 Oracle Lane, Bldg. G, Conference Center 1, Pleasanton, CA 94588. Exit I-580 at Hacienda Drive. Go South .1 mile to Owens Drive (first light), Turn right and go .1 mile to Oracle Lane (first light). Turn right and go to the far parking lot, entrance to Building G faces I-580.

Jeb Miller, Partner, ComVentures (www.comventures.com)
Jeb Miller has extensive experience working with early stage companies and focuses his investments on innovative opportunities across the mobile and enterprise applications and infrastructure sectors. Jeb's current board seats include AdInfuse, Atto Devices, Fultec and Innotas and he is actively involved with Ambric, Azul, Caymas, Exavio, MonoSphere, ONStor, OpSource, Sonopia and Vyatta. Jeb joined ComVentures from Worldview Technology Partners, where he invested in enterprise software and data center infrastructure companies. Prior to Worldview, Jeb co founded Morgan Stanley Technology Ventures, where he focused on investments in the data center infrastructure and storage sectors. Jeb was previously Director of Business Development for Scient, an Internet consulting firm, where he launched and managed the firm's corporate venture arm. Prior to Scient, Jeb was an investment banker with Morgan Stanley's global technology group in Menlo Park, Boston and New York. Jeb graduated summa cum laude from Harvard with a BA in Economics.

Nick Triantos, Board Director, Sand Hill Angels (www.sandhillangels.com)
Nick has over 15 years of experience in software engineering and engineering management. He most recently worked at NVIDIA for 8 years, where he served as Chief Software Architect. Nick is an expert in computer graphics and system software architecture, and also has previous work experience in the set-top box market, console game market, and business productivity software market, from his previous work at Navio (now Liberate), 3DO, and Claris (now part of Apple). These days, Nick is most interested in web-based applications and high-tech medical devices, but he also remains interested in consumer electronics, graphics, and electronic entertainment, too. Nick has a B.S. in computer science from the State University of New York at Buffalo, and he is currently pursuing dual MBA's through UC Berkeley (Haas) and ColumbiaUniversity.

Paula Groves-Hawthorne Managing, Partner, 4Front Partners
Ms. Groves-Hawthorne is Managing Partner of 4Front Partners, a venture capital fund-in-formation focusing on the convergence of technology, telecommunications and healthcare in the western US. Most recently, Ms. Groves-Hawthorne was Managing Member of Axxon Capital, one of the largest woman led, woman and minority targeted funds in the country with over $50 million under management. Prior to founding Axxon Capital, Groves was a partner with Triumph Capital Group, where she completed more than $115 million of investments for a range of companies. She also helped the firm's private assets grow from $50 million in 1993 to $800 million in 1999. Prior to joining Triumph, Ms. Groves-Hawthorne worked on Wall Street at The First Boston Corporation. She also worked at the Leo Burnett advertising agency, and Twentieth Century Fox Film in Hollywood. Ms. Groves-Hawthorn has an MBA from HarvardBusinessSchool and a BA from Stanford University.

Rob Crumpler, President and CEO, BuzzLogic (www.buzzlogic.com)
Rob Crumpler joined BuzzLogic as president and CEO in October, 2005. An entrepreneur and internet strategist, Crumpler has more than 20 years of experience with high technology growth companies including Microsoft and Intuit. Prior to joining BuzzLogic, Crumpler drove the growth of Microsoft MSN Money. Previously, Crumpler founded On the Go Software where he was president and CEO for seven years. The company became the industry leader in the expense reporting and corporate travel management space and was acquired by Intuit in 1996. While at Intuit, Crumpler led the development of the OFX Consortium, which fathered Open Financial Exchange the de facto standard for financial reporting and transactions on the Internet. Crumpler received a BS in Economics from the University of Californiaat Los Angeles.

Dave Lu, Business Guy and HTML Monkey, Fanpop, Inc. (www.fanpop.com)
Dave is proud to say he grew up in New Joisey (why we do not know). He went to the University of Pennsylvaniafor his bachelor's degree and got his MBA from Stanford. In and around that time, Dave has been lucky enough to work at really cool companies like Yahoo!, eBay, Sony and Apple. Dave is the bean counter, janitor, graphic designer and web coder for Fanpop. He's a hard-core fan of Lost, travel, U2, Canon photography, and San Francisco.

This event is co-sponsored by RoseRyan, http://www.roseryan.com.