How I sold 4 companies, raised $500M+ and reached $2B+ in revenues

You are invited to our Founders Floor Speaker Series and Networking Event with George Northup, successful tech entrepreneur and James Lim, Managing Director at North Point, an M&A firm based in San Francisco.

George will talk about his entrepreneurial experiences in building multiple successful tech companies.  From the early stages of raising funding from VCs like Kleiner Perkins and Draper Fisher Jurvetson, to growing high revenue companies and eventually exiting via IPO and M&A.

The event starts with a Networking Reception where food and drinks will be provided.

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, 11/12/2015

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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

George will talk about his entrepreneurial experiences in building multiple successful tech companies. From the early stages of raising funding from VCs like Kleiner Perkins and Draper Fisher Jurvetson, to growing high revenue companies and eventually exiting via IPO and M&A.

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

GEORGE NORTHUP

Tech Entrepreneur

George Northup is a tech entrepreneur who has built and sold 4 companies with $2B+ of cumulative revenues and raised more than $500M+ through IPOs and venture capital.

His companies have been backed by elite Silicon Valley investors including Kleiner Perkins, Draper Fisher Jurvetson, Foundry Group and Mobius Ventures.

Currently, George is the CEO of Author-it, an enterprise software company serving Fortune 500 companies.

Previously, he was the CEO of Memeo, an Inc. 5000 online file sharing company. Backed by Foundry Group, Memeo partnered with Samsung, Google, Sony and WD and successfully exited in 2014.

Earlier, George was CEO of AuctionDrop: 3rd fastest growing private company in Silicon Valley/ San Jose Business Journal Fast 50; 12th in Deloitte & Touche Tech Fast 50 Silicon Valley Rising Stars; and an Inc 500 Fast Growth Company.AuctionDrop successfully exited in 2008.

He was also EVP/CFO of LiveCapital, a financial software entity, sold to D&B, which eventually grew from 0 to $500M+ in annual revenues.

He was EVP/CFO of Online Resources, an internet banking company which he took through an IPO with JP Morgan as lead banker. Today, Online Resources provides internet banking services to 15% of U.S. households & processes more than $200B of annual payments. Online Resources has 17 of the top 50 U.S. banks as customers.

George started at Deloitte & Touche and has a B.S. degree with cum laude honors, from Duke University. He was a varsity athlete at Duke with the nationally ranked lacrosse program.

He is an active board member, investor and advisor to various tech companies and startups.

JAMES LIM

Managing Director

North Point Advisors

For over 20 years James has been helping companies selling and acquiring other companies.

James is currently the Managing Director of North Point Advisors who has been involved in mergers and acquisitions for top companies, including Starbucks, Jamba Jice, Kellogg’s, Guitar Hero, Papa Murphy’s, Sutter Health, and others totaling more than $15B in transactional value.

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.

Disclaimer

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