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Startup and Entrepreneurship Day

Startup-Entrepreneurship Day Camp

Learn from Start to Successful Exit from Entrepreneurs, Venture Capitalists and Business Advisors

April 25, 2015 (Sat) Palo Alto, CA

http://gitpro.org/entrepreneurship-2015

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Venue: JCC, 3921 Fabian Way,Palo Alto, CA.

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Startup 101: Learn how to structure a tech startup and understand IP issues
Learn Startup Success Factors: from Successful serial entrepreneur Prakash Bhalerao and Venture Capitalist Amit Shah
Raising Money: IoT, Learn from Venture Capitalists and Investors
Monetization and Customer Discovery: Learn from MBA Professor and Lean Startup Coach
Ticket Information:
$85 for Startup Bootcamp
$75 with discount code ( for example BALIST )

 

Time Slot Speaker Details
8:30am-9:30: Startup 101: Structuring Silicon Valley Startup
Structuring a startup as a legal entity is beyond just filing C corp or S corp. Silicon Valley Venture capitalists expects certain type of registration, with equity structure, board etc properly made to scale up and result into IPO or acquisition.
Additionally Intellectual Property is a key asset of startups. This presentation would also cover brand protection, copyright, trademark, and patenting.
Carole Bellis, Kilpatrick Townsend LLC
9:45 am – 10:45 am Monetization Models for Technology Startups: Prof. Hemant Bhargava, UC Davis
Aim of business is to make money which translates into a valuation resulting into making money for the founders and investors. Magnetization models drastically changed in new consumer driven economies in last decade. This is important not just for raising funds from investors, but making the startup successful. Learn it from a master in this field.
11:00 am – 12:15 pm Building A Successful Silicon Valley Startup:Amit Shah, Artiman Ventures
Learning tips and tricks to succeed a startups from a master is an unique opportunities. Amit Shah focuses on early-stage investments, creating globally renowned businesses, where technology innovation and markets intersect.Amit Shah is not just a successful venture capitalist but he has been a successful serial entrepreneur. Both companies he founded were acquired: Zeitnet (acq. Cabletron) and PipeLinks (acq. Cisco). His serial entrepreneurship made him be successful in making other startups as successful.
Over his career he has led investments in many companies such as Everest Design Automation (acq. Synopsys), IKANOS (Nasdaq: IKAN), iManage (Nasdaq: IMAN), Lightwire (acq. Cisco Systems), Netscaler (acq. Citrix), Sierra Design Automation (acq. Mentor Graphics), Tavant (acq. Ameriquest).
12:00 pm – 01:00 pm Lunch (provided)      
01:00 pm – 2:15 pm

Nakul Mandan
 Raising Investment for Startups: Naveen Bisht 
Ashmeet Sadana, Engineering Capital
Nakul Mandan, LightSpeed Venture Partners,
Raj Gollamudi, Intel Capital,
Praveen Gupta, HTC Corp

Raising capital is the a common, essential and the most time consuming activity that most of the founders end up doing, whether they get successful in doing or not, results into the longitivtiy and success of a startup. Hence, this session is important to understand how VCs and investors invest and expect from the founders.

2:15 pm – 3:15 pm Managing Successful Exit: : Prakash BhaleraoSerial Entrepreneur
Prakash Bhalerao, Chairman and CEO, Verismo Networks is a successful high-technology entrepreneur, angel investor and venture capitalist and has co-founded more than 30 Silicon Valley start-ups, after successful key management positions at Digital Equipment Corp. (DEC) and C-Cube Microsystems.

He has co-founded and now serves as chairman of several admired and highly sought-after Silicon Valley start-ups, including Amber Networks, Ishoni Networks, Alopa Networks, Ambit Inc., and ECTone. All of these companies are headquartered in Silicon Valley, and some also have research and development facilities in India.

Together, Bhalerao’s companies employ over 700 people in Bangalore, India, and over 4,000 professionals worldwide. During the period between 1997-2003, these companies have raised over $500 million in equity capital, and together they have market capitalization that total in the billions of dollars.

3:30 pm – 4:30 pm Customer Discovery and Interviews according to Lean Startup for Startups: Eugene Lee, Nick Noreña
Nine out of 10 startup fail. So fail early, learn and pivot, is the principal that makes new age startups agile and successful. The success of lean startup depends on customer interviews and customer discovery. Startups rarely fail due to technical issues but fail either there is no customers or fail to understand what customers need. This customer interviews and discovery process de-risks the failure.
4:45 pm – 5:30 pm Keynote1: Succeeding in Silicon Valley Prakash Bhalerao: Serial Entrepreneur
5:15 pm -5:45 pm Tea – Snacks and Networking      

 

Speakers for GITPRO World 2015

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GITPRO World 2015 Organizing Team
Convener: Khanderao Kand
Sponsorships: Chandra Nayak, Dinesh Neelavar
Leadership Track: Sandeep Bhatnagar
Promotions: Vivek Jalahalli, Sandeep Deodikar
Logistics: Maitreya Shroff, Vasu Jain
Publications & Materials: Manisha Kand
Registrations: Sandeep Deodikar , Vishnupriya

 
 
 

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