Bill Reichert, VC at Garage Ventures – 10 tips to get investors’ attention

Dinner and refreshments will be served. Tickets are FREE but you need to RSVP to secure your spot.

Over 100+ RSVPs expected.  Demo tables and Sponsor tables are available.

This event is organized by Founders Floor. Lifograph is a sponsor of the event.

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, 05/13/2015

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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

Bill will give 10 tips on how to get investors’ attention and get them to say”WOW!!”

·  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 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

Bill Reicher

Managing Director

Garage Technology Ventures

Bill Reichert is Managing Director of Garage Technology Ventures, the early-stage venture capital firm he cofounded with Guy Kawasaki, the famous venture capitalist, author and former Apple evangelist.

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.

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

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