Startup Bootcamp

April 13 Sat 2013

Palo Alto, CA

9:00am – 6:00pm

Fees
$60 (with GITPRO-STARTUP) otherwise $75.
Group (3+) Rate: $50 per person
Startup Attendees can attend Technology and Leadership Sessions too

Registration link http://gitpro-world-2013.eventbrite.com

Great opportunity for Entrepreneurs:

Startup bootcamp for early stage startups and Wanna-be-Entrepreneurs
Speakers: VCs, Startup Experts, Merger & Acquisition Advisor, Startups CEOs
Network with other entrepreneurs

Venue:

Jewish Conference Center, 3921 Fabian Way, Palo Alto, CA.

Program:

Startup Attendees can attend Technology and Leadership Sessions. Tech Track has sessions on Big Data, Cloud, Mobile and Social Computing.

Time Slot

Startup Track

9:00-10:00

Next Billion Dollars Opportunities: Vivek Wadhwa(Serial Entrepreneur and now Startup Mentor at Stanford)

Vivek Wadhwa Duke University, Stanford & Berkley University

Vivek Wadhwa is Vice President of Innovation and Research at Singularity University; Fellow, Arthur & Toni Rembe Rock Center for Corporate Governance, Stanford University; Director of Research at the Center for Entrepreneurship and Research Commercialization at the Pratt School of Engineering, Duke University; and distinguished visiting scholar, Halle Institute of Global Learning, Emory University. He is author of ”The Immigrant Exodus: Why America Is Losing the Global Race to Capture Entrepreneurial Talent”–which was named by The Economist as a Book of the Year of 2012.

10:30-12:00

Mastering Startup Success Path: Starting to Selling Startup: Amit Shah, Serial Entrepreneur and VC (Artiman Ventures) & Warren Lazarow (Corporate Lawyer & M-A Expert)

Amit Shah Venture Capitalist Artiman Ventures

Amit Shah focuses on early stage technology investments. As a Partner of Artiman Ventures, he is currently on the boards of Auryn, Guavus, InvenSense, Lightwire, Mastek, Motif and Zyme Solutions.Prior to founding Artiman Ventures, Amit gained technology investment experience as a General Partner of Anthelion I & II, a seed stage venture fund. He also worked as VP of New Markets and Technologies for Cisco Systems’ Business Development and Alliances Group. Prior to this he founded and was CEO of PipeLinks, Inc., acquired by Cisco (1998). Preceding PipeLinks, he founded ZeitNet, a networking systems company which was then acquired by Cabletron.

Warren Lazarow Corporate Lawyer
M & A Advisor 150+ Mergers & Acquisitions

Lawrence Lazarow Managing Partner of O’Melveny : Corprate lawyer, Advisor to Startups and Merger-Acquisition Expert. Warren’s practice is primarily focused on the corporate representation of public and private technology companies, venture capital and private equity firms, and investment banks. Warren has handled more than 150 M&A transactions ranging from US$1 million to more than US$5 billion; more than 100 public offerings of equity, debt, and convertible securities, raising more than US$2.6 billion; and more than 750 private financings spanning initial seed financings, venture capital financings, private equity financings, and recapitalizations.

12:00-1:00

Lunch

1:00-2:15

How to Raise Investment from Angels and VCs:

Ryan Floyd Venture Capiatlist Managing Director- StormVentures	Ryan Flyod (Storm Ventures): VC who invested in SaaS (Crowd Factory / Acquired by Marketo, BlackStratus), mobile (Appcelerator) , cloud/internet related investments (Hubpages, Kidaro/Acquired by Microsoft, MetaCloud, Spalshtop and Swiftstack), semiconductors/components as well (SandForce /Acquired by LSI and Ignis Optics /Acquired by Bookham).
Rohit Bodas Partner Amex Ventures	Rohit Bodas(AMEX Ventures):Rohit Bodas is a Partner at American Express Ventures and is responsible for early-stage investments for American Express’ $100 Million Digital Commerce Initiative. Prior to American Express, Rohit was founding member of Hartford Ventures and made investments in DriverSide Inc and Coulomb Technologies. Prior to Hartford Ventures, Rohit held various positions at Motorola in R&D, business development and at Motorola Ventures. Rohit has developed key mobile video and security technologies and holds two US patents.
Naveen Bisht Serial Entrepreneur, Cofounder Auriss Technologies	Naveen Bisht(Serial Entrepreneur): Naveen Bisht has over 18 years of experience as an entrepreneur and advisor in technology companies. Currently, he is Co-founder of Auriss Technologies, Inc. he was Founder and CEO of Ukiah Software, Inc., a leader in policy-based bandwidth and security software acquired by Novell, Inc.Preetish Nijhawan ( Managing Director, Cervin Ventures): Most recently, Preetish was Chief Financial Officer for Neon Enterprise Software. Before that, Preetish was Vice President of Strategic Alliances at NeoEdge Networks.

2:30-3:30

Marketing and Selling for Startups:

Dennis O’Malley CEO ReadyPulse	Dennis O’Malley (CEO ReadyPulse):Before Readypulese, he headed Moxie Insight division. Before Moxie, Dennis was a VP Sales for Gartner.
Jose Lazares Founder MarketFX Advisors	Jose Lazares (Business Advisor): Jose Lazares is a seasoned marketing, product and business executive with 20 plus years of experience working in social/digital media, enterprise software and consumer goods industries. As a major contributor at both start-up and Fortune 500 companies.

3:30-4:45

Mastering Lean Startup Concepts:

Tristan Kromer Lean Startup Expert & Entrepreneur

Triston Kromer (Entrepreneur and LSM Expert): Mentor at Lean Startup Machine, Seedcamp, Startup Monthly, TechBA “Build or Die” Bootcamp, BUILD, etc.; Speaker at Lean Startup Machine, Silicon Valley Bleeding Edge Ruby, TechBA “Build or Die” Bootcamp, etc. Organizer of StartupWeekend, Lean Coffee, TechBA “Build or Die” Bootcamp, etc.; Advisor to various Silicon Valley based startups;

5:30-6:00

Mastering Successful Leadership by becoming Smart to Wise: Dr. Prasad Kaipa (Executive Coach)

Dr. Prasad Kaipa CEO & Executive Coach Auhor: From Smart To Wise

Dr. Prasad Kaipa has, over the last 20 years, evolved a refreshingly unique approach to Executive Coaching and Executive Education. By combining Business, Science & Technology and Spirituality, Prasad has developed an integral framework to Ignite the Genius Within executives. His framework and tools have helped 117 CEOs, Senior Executives and Board members in over 30 companies in 7 countries. Over 25,000 executives and engineers have attended his courses and workshops. His areas of consulting include Global Leadership, Innovation, Business Transformation and Personal Mastery. His research areas are wisdom approaches, brain research and its implications on leadership development; indian models of innovation and leadership compared to western models and transformation.