Ron Weissman, Band of Angels: Lessons I Learned Working with Steve Jobs

Join us for our Speaker Series & Networking Event for a rare opportunity to hear Ron Weissman talk about his experience asadvisor to Steve Jobs and working along side him for over 5 years. Ron will also provide lessons learned in working with over 40 venture backed companies, along with his thoughts on the current early stage funding climate and what startups should do during these challenging times.

Ron has been an angel investor and venture capitalist in Silicon Valley for over 16 years. Throughout his career, Ron has been on 20 tech company boards, worked with 40 ventured backed companies, has been a tech executive, academia professor and is a highly sought-after advisor and speaker.

If you are a startup or entrepreneur, this is a talk you do not want to miss!

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:

Thursday, 03/24/2016

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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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Discussion Topics

Andrew will give invaluable advice about how to best raise capital from CVCs, build partnerships between startups and large corporations and how to avoid potential mistakes and other dangers related to corporate venture capital.

Also, Andrew will share findings from his research and experience on why and how corporates should establish CVCs.

Speaker

Ron Weissman

Angel Investor

Band of Angels

With over 25 years of experience in the tech world, Ron Weissman has worked side by side with the legendary Steve Jobs, has taken companies such as Verity to new heights of profitability and invested in numerous others as a venture capitalist with Apax Partners.

Ron is also an angel investor at Band of Angels, the oldest angel group in Silicon Valley (140+ angel investors) and is a Partner in the group’s Acorn Fund. He is also a member of the Berkeley Angel Network (BAN).

He has served as a Board Director for more than 25 companies and has been an advisor to more than 40 venture-backed companies.

A frequent conference speaker, he has published or lectured extensively on venture capital trends and issues, the management of early stage venture-backed companies and software trends and guest lectures at Stanford, UC Berkeley and at the University of Santa Clara’s schools of Law and Business.

He has recently lectured on angel capital in Chile, New Zealand, Australia, Armenia and the US White House. As a partner inCircini Innovation, he advises firms globally on Corporate Venture Capital.

Ron has been an advisor to many public and private companies, including Apple, NeXT, Sun Microsystems, IBM and Microsoftas well as many departments of the U.S. government (Energy, Agriculture, DoD, the intelligence community) and was a co-author of the Academy of Public Administration/National Archives’ study of the future of electronic recordkeeping in the federal government.

He also assists a number of venture capital and private equity firms including Greycroft, LLR Partners, Trident Capital and Apax Partners.

Ron is on the boards of Chiliad (highly scalable federated search) and Attensity (text analytics). He managed the recent sale of Attensity to Aeris Capital and remains on the Board.

He is Executive Chairman of Host Analytics (SaaS-based CPM) and of MarketBright (marketing automation via SaaS).

He has recently been an advisor and/or investor in a number of other early stage companies, including Allocade (patient management), Cataphora (legal analytics), Grid Agents (energy monitoring for utilities), Modius (data center power management), Peoplechart (personal health records), PracticeFusion (electronic medical records), Ravenflow (natural language requirements documentation) and Sonim (handsets for the grey collar market).

He is also currently on the boards of Apax portfolio companies CenterBeam (mid-market infrastructure management via SaaS),Composite Software (data integration for BI), Planview(enterprise portfolio management) and Transera (call center SaaS virtualization) and is board observer for Perfect Commerce(procurement management) and Peregrine Semiconductor(sapphire on silicon technology for high density applications).

In addition to current directorships, he has served as an advisor, observer or director for many early stage companies, includingBlueArc, Bristol Technologies (sold to HP), Confluent Software(sold to Oblix/Oracle), Global Factory, HAL Knowledge Systems, Icarian (sold to Workstream), INEA (sold to Cartesis / Business Objects / SAP), Lexiquest (sold to SPSS), Mesh Networks (sold to Motorola), Milcom Technologies, Pictage, Planview, Plexus Online, Preventsys, Promethean, Solid Information Technologies (sold to IBM), Sysis, Tideway and Visalign (sold to CDC). He has served as acting VP of Marketingfor several Apax companies including Composite and BlueArc.

Prior to joining Apax Partners, he was vice president of global marketing and corporate development for Verity, the industry leader in enterprise information management. During his tenure, the company’s executive team was named the large company Turnaround of the Year (1999) by the Turnaround Management Association after Verity gained dominant market share and saw its valuation grow from $50 million to more than $1.7 billion.

Prior to Verity, he spent more than five years at NeXT Computerworking side by side with Steve Jobs, and Filoli Information Systems (insurance claims management) where he was VP of Sales and Marketing and acting co-CEO.

Prior to joining NeXT, Weissman was Vice President of Academic Computing at Brown University and before that he was Associate Professor and Director of University Computing for the University of Maryland system.

A member of Phi Beta Kappa and a Fulbright Scholar, he received his BA, MA, and Ph.D. degrees from the University of California at Berkeley.

Ron chairs the Emerging Technologies Forum of the VC TaskForce, is a member of its Executive Committee, is on the advisory board of SVASE (Silicon Valley Association of Startup Entrepreneurs) and serves on the advisory boards of market research firm BASEX, Stanford University’s SQSS (Stanford Program for the Quantitative Study of Society) and the marketing council of the Entrepreneurs’ Foundation. He also wrote two books on the history of Renaissance Florence.

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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