EBS: Lethal Mistakes Startups Need to Avoid

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Start: 04/21/2010 - 6:00 pm
End: 04/21/2010- 8:00 pm

Contact Info: Dana Shultz Email: dana@danashultz.com

Location: Crow Canyon Country Club Cell: 510 326-2123

711 Silver Lake Drive

Danville, CA 94526

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East Bay Series - Real-life Stories of Entrepreneurial Success

Lethal Mistakes Startups Need to Avoid

Why do some startups succeed while others fail? Professional investors have seen it all – they know what really matters and what doesn’t. How crucial to success is hiring right? Cash management? Go-to-market strategy? Technical barriers? Spending too little or too much? Market research? Partnerships? The right investors? The right financing terms?

VCs and angels will explain how you can turn others’ mistakes into your competitive advantages.

The panel:

Prashant Shah, Hummer Winblad
Allen Peterson, Keiretsu Forum Northern California
Eileen Tanghal, Applied Ventures
Ronald H. Star, Howard Rice

Moderator: Greg Beattie, MBV Law

When: Wednesday, April 21

6-6:30 pm: Networking and Buffet Dinner

6:30-8 pm: Panel discussion and Q/A

Pre-registration closes 9 AM the day of the event.

Cost: (Includes buffet dinner, coffee and tea; cash bar available)

Members - $25

Affiliates who advertise this event - $25

General Public - $35

Walk-Ins: Add $10 to rates above

Locations: Crow Canyon Country Club, 711 Silver Lake Drive, Danville, CA 94526.

Directions: Exit I-680 at Crow Canyon Road. Take Crow Canyon east approximately one mile. Turn left at El Capitan, then take the first right to the guard gate. After checking in at the gate, take the third left turn (just past the tennis courts) into the clubhouse parking lot.

DRESS: Business casual or business attire, please - no jeans or shorts allowed.

Participant bios:

Prashant Shah, Managing Director, Hummer Winblad (www.humwin.com)
Prashant Shah, Managing Director, joined Hummer Winblad in December 2000. He has been instrumental in many investments including Baynote, Bridgestream, Cenzic, EvoStor, InMage, Jareva Technologies, Krillion, Pancetera Software, Scalent, SyncVoice, Tizor and Voltage Security. He also observes a number of these boards. In addition, Prashant is an active Charter Member of TiE Silicon Valley (www.tiesv.org), where he is Chair of the Software SIG; and a member of the Board of Trustees for Astia (www.astia.org). Prior to Hummer Winblad, Prashant spent many years defining and launching high tech products. His background spans all seven layers of the OSI stack with product management roles at enCommerce (acquired by Entrust), Cypress Semiconductor and AT&T. Prashant received a BS in Electrical Engineering from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, and an MBA from the University of Chicago. Prashant currently sits on the Boards of EvoStor and Pancetera Software.

Allen Peterson, Keiretsu Forum Northern California (www.keiretsuforum.com)
Al Peterson is an angel investor, Certified Management Consultant (CMC), Certified Strategic Planning Facilitator, and advisor. Al founded Peterson Associates and joined Keiretsu Forum in 2002. Previously he was president of Kewill ERP—a software company with 9,000 manufacturing customers. Al’s career includes high tech and financial services industries with eleven years of general management, and experience in multiple start-ups, start-overs, and established large companies. He started at IBM Data Processing Division and held systems engineer, sales, and management positions during eleven years there. Al’s consulting consists of strategic planning and marketing/sales assistance to financial services and high tech firms.

Eileen Tanghal, Director, Applied Ventures, LLC (www.appliedventures.com)
Eileen Tanghal was appointed director for Applied Ventures, the venture capital firm of Applied Materials, Inc., in July 2008, where she is responsible for identifying, recommending and managing venture capital investments. Tanghal has a diverse background combining more then 10 years of experience with early stage venture capital-backed companies in the US and Europe, as an engineer, product manager, and venture capitalist. She previously served as an investment director in the London office of Kennet Partners, a private equity firm, where she led and co-led the firm's investment in fabless semiconductor companies Sequans Communications and STS, for which she served as a board director. Prior to this, Tanghal was an associate with Amadeus Capital Partners Limited from 2002 to 2005, where she led due diligence and deal execution activities for potential and existing portfolio companies and acted as an observer on the boards of fabless semiconductor company Artimi, Inc., fiber laser company SPI Lasers Plc, and flexible display company Plastic Logic Limited. From 1997 to 2000, she worked at PDF Solutions, Inc., where she was one of the first yield ramp engineers. Tanghal holds a bachelor of science degree in electrical engineering and computer science from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and a Master of Business Administration from the London Business School.

Ronald H. Star, Director, Howard Rice (www.howardrice.com)
Ronald Star is a director with the firm who focuses on securities law, financings, venture capital, intellectual property, and mergers and acquisitions. He works closely with start-up and private companies on issues related to equity and financings, intellectual property matters, the structuring of executive compensation (including stock arrangements), strategic ventures, acquisitions and management buy-outs. Mr. Star's engagements run the gamut from representing start-up companies in formation to representing major multinational companies in strategic transactions. His particular industry specialties include computer software and hardware, semiconductors, information services businesses, Internet and multimedia companies, medical technology, food related companies, retail operations and financial services companies. Mr. Star is a lecturer at the Haas School of Business at the University of California at Berkeley, where he teaches an MBA course on entrepreneurship. He is a guest lecturer at Stanford University's Graduate School of Business. He also is a frequent lecturer on venture capital transactions, acquisitions, strategic partnerships, employment matters and closely held businesses.

Greg Beattie, MBV Law (www.mbvlaw.com)
Greg maintains a corporate and technology law practice, emphasizing start-up and private company representation, venture fund representation, mergers, acquisitions and strategic joint ventures, technology licensing, protection and transfers, and securities and commercial law. He represents a broad spectrum of computer device, networking and infrastructure companies, venture capital firms and a variety of distribution, retail, service and manufacturing concerns. Greg graduated from Harvard Law School in 1980, (J.D., cum laude). He received his B.A., with distinction and departmental honors, from Stanford University in 1976. Greg has lectured widely on early stage and privately held companies, venture financing, director and officer liability, and angel investing. He has served on the Board of the East Bay IT Group (EBIG) and the East Bay Venture Forum, the advisory board of Technology Ventures Corporation, and is the founder and a regular lecturer for the Keiretsu Forum Academy.

This event is sponsored by Claremont Creek Ventures, http://www.claremontvc.com.

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