Bill Reichert, VC at Garage Ventures – 10 tips to get investors’ attention
Over 100+ RSVPs expected. Demo tables and Sponsor tables are available.
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Agenda
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, 05/13/2015
Time:
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
· The key elements of a pitch
· How investors’ brains work (and how sometimes they don’t)
· Why you need less time, not more time for your pitch
· How to keep the investor engaged
· Mistakes that get your pitch in the ditch
· How to differentiate yourself from the crowd
· How to get investors to say Wow!
Other topics included:
– 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
Bill Reicher
Managing Director
Garage Technology Ventures
Some of Garage’s most successful startups include Pandora, Tripwire, LeftHand Networks, Coremetrics, Hoku Scientific, Kaboodle, WhiteHat Security and Simply Hired.
Bill has spent most of his career as an entrepreneur and operating executive.
Prior to joining Garage, Bill was a co-founder and senior executive at several early-stage, venture-backed technology companies, including Trademark Software, The Learning Company, Infa Technologies, and Academic Systems.
Earlier in his career, Bill worked at McKinsey & Co. in Los Angeles, the World Bank in Washington, DC, and Brown Brothers Harriman & Co. in New York.
Bill earned his BA from Harvard University and his MBA from Stanford University.
Bill is a frequent speaker at local, national and international conferences and has spoken at many events organized by Stanford University, Kauffman Foundation, SV Forum, VC Taskforce, etc.
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