Workshop: Financial Projections & Funding Strategies for Startups

Join us for our monthly Founders Floor Workshop Series where UX/UI design expert Pek Pongpaet will conduct a workshop on how startups can incorporate the design process into their product development, and learn how to effectively work and communicate with designers including a review of common industry tools such as Sketch, Invision and Principle.

The event starts with a networking reception where dinner and drinks will be provided.

Agenda

6:00pm – 6:45pm – Dinner and networking, demo/sponsor tables
6:45pm – 7:00pm – Intros, demo/sponsor tables mentions
7:00pm – 8:30pm – Speakers program and Q&A
8:30pm – 9:00pm – Meet the speaker, networking

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Date:

Wednesday, 08/03/2016

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6:00 p.m. – 9:00 p.m.

Location:

Founders Floor

2 North 1st St., 5th Floor

San Jose, CA 95113

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Topic

• How to build a robust business and financial model, based upon realistic expectations and sound assumptions

• How to analyze and select the appropriate revenue models and cost structures for your startup

• How to understand the user metrics and key performance indicators (KPI) benchmarks in your industry, and how they impact your funding and valuation

• How to determine your valuation trajectory throughout the funding cycle, from seed funding to an exit

• How to successfully communicate your financial vision and expectations to investors

And much more!

Speaker

Efrat Kasznik

strategy expert

Lecturer at the Stanford Graduate School of Business

Efrat Kasznik is a startup valuation and strategy expert, as well as a Lecturer at the Stanford Graduate School of Business.

Efrat is the Founder and President of Foresight Valuation Group, an intellectual property and startup advisory firm, where she has assisted clients that range in size from Fortune 100 companies to start-ups, law firms, universities, research institutions, inventors, IP brokers and patent funds.

Throughout her career, Efrat has served as a cofounder, executive and advisor to several startups, including serving as CFO at a telecom startup.

She is a Mentor at the Stanford Venture Studio incubator, as well as a mentor at several other incubators, accelerators and investor groups in the US, Europe and Israel.

Efrat is a frequent conference speaker, author and blogger, and regularly writes for leading publications such as the Business Journals, VentureBeat, IAM Magazine and IPWatchdog.

She has been listed on the prestigious IAM 300 list of Leading World IP Strategists for 4 yeas in a row [masked]).

Free street parking

Abundant street parking is available for free after 6:00 p.m. in downtown San Jose. Streets closest to Founders Floor with free street parking are Santa Clara St., North Market St. and St. John St.

Free parking garage

Founders Floor will provide a 2 hour free parking voucher to the Market & San Pedro Square Parking Garage. This garage is only one block away from Founders Floor. It’s located at 45 N. Market St., between W. Santa Clara St. and W. St. John St. Upon check-in at the Founders Floor event, make sure you ask for the 2 hour free parking voucher.

Public transportation

VTA Light Rail is right outside our building, and runs every 20 minutes making public transportation fast and easy.  Both the Mountain View-Winchester and the Alum Rock-Santa Teresa VTA light rail stop at the Santa Clara Station(s) which is located just a block away.