Vitaly Golomb: seed-stage investor, VC-backed entrepreneur and mentor

Join us for our Speaker Series & Networking Event with Andrew Romans, VC at Rubicon Venture Capital and author of two best selling books on venture capital:

– MASTERS OF CORPORATE VENTURE CAPITAL: Collective Wisdom from 50 VCs Best Practices for Corporate Venturing How to Access Startup Innovation & How to Get Funded

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– THE ENTREPRENEURIAL BIBLE TO VENTURE CAPITAL: Inside Secrets from the Leaders in the Startup Game

More than 20% of all venture capital financing’s include at least one corporate VC and thus startups need to understand how corporate venture capital works.

Andrew captured wisdom from interviews with 100+ Corporate Venture Capitalists (CVCs), independent VCs, CEOs of startups, bankers and lawyers to write the definitive book on the topic of corporate venture capital.

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, 08/13/2015

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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

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.

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

Vitaly

Founding Partner

CCC Startups

Vitaly is currently Founding Partner at CCC Startups, an early stage venture fund.

He is a contributing writer for TechCrunch, the highest-read tech startup news source, with over 35 million readers per month.

Vitaly is also a TEDx speaker, Executive Producer of the Startup AddVenture conference series and author of the upcoming book Accelerated Startup – The New Business School. 

He is a top-ranked accelerator mentor and travels to over 20 countries each year as a speaker and guest lecturer on entrepreneurship, innovation, and design.

Vitaly is also the Founder and CEO of Keen Systems,  the fastest growing ecommerce platform in the $650B+ print industry backed by IDG-Accel Venture Capital, 500 Startups, Dave McClure, and others.

He is also a mentor to 500 Startups, Rimac Automobili, European Innovation Academy, Etohum, Innovation Nest, ZIP Incubator,  and TechPeaks – The People Accelerator.

Previous to this, Vitaly was a Managing Partner of Sputnik Integrated, an award-winning interactive agency specializing in ecommerce and online marketing.

He has also served as an Advisor to AtContent, Be Healthy, Business Exchange, Concept Box, Flocktory, KeyPic, Lezgro, Topicmarks, and Wideo.

Vitaly was Board Member of the United Nations Association – Silicon Valley Chapter and Entrepreneurship Director at Silicon Valley Innovation Institute.

Vitaly received a BA in Computer and Video Imaging at Cogswell Polytechnical College.

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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