Bob Risse of Stanford Angels, Harvard Angels: Lessons from 7 startups & 4 exits

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Join us for our monthly Founders Floor Speaker Series & Networking Event where we host an interesting talk with Bob Risse, angel investor at Stanford Angels & Harvard Angels.

Light dinner and drinks are provided.

This is a free event for founders, entrepreneurs, developers, engineers and designers in the tech startup community.  Please no service providers.

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:

Tuesday, 02/24/2015

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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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Discussion Topics

Bob will talk about lessons he learned from 7 startups, 2 booms, 3 busted bubbles, 4 exits and 1 backward IPO.

Bob has a BA in Economics and a MS in Engineering from Stanford University. He got his MBA from Harvard (top 10% of class).

Other topics included:

– How to raise funding from corporate VCs

– How to partner with corporate VCs and big companies

– Landmines to avoid that can be disastrous for startups and other VCs involved

– How to position your startup to be acquired by a large corporation

– How corporations can use venture capital to access startup innovation, a steady pipeline of partnerships, investments and ultimately M&A opportunities

– And much more…

Speaker

Bob

Angel Investor

Bob has a BA in Economics and a MS in Engineering from Stanford University. He got his MBA from Harvard (top 10% of class).

CAREER HIGHLIGHTS:

Angel Investor, Stanford Angels and Harvard Angels

Startup Mentor, Stanford School of Engineering

Co-Founder, UnoDosTres.com (sold to Telemundo/NBC)

Co-Founder, The ChannelSeven.com (sold to Internet.com)

Founder, Mercury Seven (sold to XCEED)

Co-founder, RESNA Industries (funded by Kleiner Perkins & Sequoia)

Co-Founder, Bioisolates

Founder, m7 Advertising Network

Co-Founder, TriBeCa Interactive (with actor Robert De Niro)

Consultant to IBM, Ericsson, LEK, Walt Disney, Siemens, Citigroup, etc.

V.P. New Media, Hearst Magazines

Event Producer – CLIO Awards (international advertising awards)

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.
Refund Policy

You may request a refund up to 48 hours before the event. Unfortunately, any refunds requested less than 48 hours before the event cannot be honored. Thank you for your understanding.

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