“How to nail product-market fit” with VC at Xseed Capital & Stanford Angels

Join us for our Speaker Series & Networking Event with Alan Chiu, VC and Partner at Xseed Capital & Co-president of Stanford Angels & Entrepreneurs.

Alan will talk about “How to nail product market fit,” a popular talk he previously delivered at the Stanford School of Business.

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

If you are a startup founder or entrepreneur, then you do not want to miss this talk.

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, 03/09/2016

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

• How and where to find your customers

• How to discover your customer’s world

• How to understand the ways in which your customers discover you

• How to understand your customer’s purchase decisions

• How to stay lean and not scale prematurely

• How to stick with your vision while being adaptable

• When do you know you nailed product-market fit

• And much more!

We will provide time for Q&A at the end of the program, so you can ask specific questions to help your startup.

Other topics included:

We will provide time for Q&A at the end of the program, so you can ask specific questions to help your startup.

Speaker

Alan Chiu

Partner

XSeed Capital

Alan Chiu is a Partner at XSeed Capital, a $60M VC fund, where he focuses on mobile enterprise applications, data analytics platforms, enterprise infrastructure, and fintech startups.

He also serves as VP of Product and Co-Founder of Listo, a financial services startup and is currently Co-President of Stanford Angels & Entrepreneurs.

He serves on the Board of Directors of StackStorm and has been Board Observer for Xseed companies including Lex Machina (acquired by LexisNexis), mines.io, AtScale (raised $9 Million), Dispatcher, Teapot, Pixlee, SIPX (acquired by ProQuest), Playnomics (acquired by Unity), Zooz (raised $16.5 Million), and BrainofT.

Alan was previously Director of Product Management at Bycast, an object storage software company with customers including some of the largest digital content repositories in the world. Bycast was acquired by NetApp, a company with 11,000+ employees and $5.1B+ in revenue.

Prior to Bycast, Alan served as an engineering manager at a network security start-up, and helped develop Creo, which was acquired by Kodak for $1B in cash.

Alan is also Mentor at Stanford University and has done many talks there such as:

• Nailing Product-Market Fit

• How to Succeed in Product Management

• Co-Founder Dating

• How to Work with Engineers

• How to Work with Business People

Alan holds a BASc in Electrical and Computer Engineering from the University of British Columbia, as well as an MS in Management from the Stanford Graduate School of Business, where he was a Sloan Fellow focused on entrepreneurship, venture capital, and mergers and acquisitions. He is also Stanford d.school alum.

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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Disclaimer

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