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From Founding to Funding - What's the Sexy Part?800 Birds (Startup Community)Thursday, May 19, 2011 from 6:00 PM to 9:30 PM (PDT)San Francisco, United States |
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ERT(Entrepreneurs RoundTable) presents another fun tech startup evening.
From Founding to Funding - What's the Sexy Part?
So you think you need funding? So does every other startup on the streets between San Francisco and Mountain View. The problem is there are too many of entrepreneurs, too few investors. So where do you find them? But do you really need them?
On the deck:
::Thorsten Claus,VC from T-Venture.
:: John Schmitt, co-founder, VP engr., GoPhoto.
Thorsten Claus, a seasoned investor, is the Senior Investment Manager at T-Venture of America, the Venture Capital Company of Deutsche Telekom. http://www.t-venture.de/en A techie in his previous capacity as network archtect and developer, he's also built up a wealth of experiences as corporate investor as well as early stage angel investor. http://www.linkedin.com/in/thorstenclaus
He will tell his stories of what he has seen in companies, founders and teams and what made him decide to invest, why and why not, in a most candor manner. We will then have an intimate and interactive open forum with him so you can ask burning questions challenging you in terms of seeking funding.
::John Schmitt, co-founder and VP of Engr. at GoPhoto. He will be
pitching to some angel investors on the morning of May 19, and will
come to ERT to share with us how it goes and what he learns from that.
6:00 - 7:00pm, refreshment, networking
7:00 - 8:30
Thorsten Claus on funding or not funding. He'll be open for your questions. Get ready!
John Schimitt to share his pitching experience, fresh right off the oven!
8:30 - 9:00, You are the star! Tell us about yourself!
9:00 - 9:30 more shmoozing
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When & Where
50 Fremont St., 6th Floor
San Francisco,
94304
Thursday, May 19, 2011 from 6:00 PM to 9:30 PM (PDT)
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800 Birds (Startup Community)
Birds of a feather flock together.
We are an organically grown startup community with friends from all over the world. Monthly events featuring special guest speakers and demos from early stage startup are held in the heart of Silicon Valley at San Francisco and Palo Alto alternately.
We love startups and invite you to participate, come speak and make friends beyond just exchange business cards.
http://www.facebook.com/groups/800Birds/
::: Membership criteria:::
Founder, Entrepreneur, Developers, Self-inflicted-slave-driver? you must play at least 3 out of the four leading title roles above. Honestly, if you are not, you'll get seriously bored by our meetings.
We have a lot of energy, abundant of passion and enthusiasm and this is a genuinely peer-to-peer sharing and learning community. Don't come in as a salesman just to pitch. If you do, you'll be disliked instantly.
The philosophy applies as follows.
We believe that entrepreneurs deserve more than just 30 seconds or 3 min. to tell their story of their ideas and the product out of their love of technologies, sleepless nights and showerless days!
Based in Silicon Valley, we meet every month gathering startup founders/geeks with more focus on social apps, to genuinely share ideas, technical expertise, business experiences, to vent on the platform guys for keep changing their policies, and of course to network.
Different from other tech events, at our events, each entrepreneur is given spot light, either as speaker to demo or as participant.
Our live demos are for the real internet products. Our speakers usually talk shop about the technologies of their products and share their entrepreneurial experiences - whether good or bad.
We welcome entrepreneurs and geeks to join, so long as you are genuinely willing to share your experiences and knowledge too.
Formerly known as ERT which was originally started by only a handful of some really smarites Facebook application developers including John Fan, Flora Sun, Teck Chia, Waleed Waleed Abdulla, Dave Westwood, SueZanne Toh and frequented by founders such as Aihui Ong, Meng-you Yang, Yong Su Kim, Chris Cinelli, Robert Yau. The group started with only 3 -4 geeks eager to share and exchange technical tips and knowledge in the early days when Facebook first open up its APIs.
Shirley joined in late 2007 and have been a loyal member since. She started curating the monthly gathering since mid-2008.
Our events have become one of the top 5 Silicon Valley best events, due to its well delivered no-nonsense content, high quality speakers as well as participants that have made the deeper networking and bonding among its thousands of attendees.
800 Birds is a Silicon Valley phenomenon indeed.