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Bill Reichert,
Managing Director
Garage Technology Ventures
Warren Packard
Managing Director
Draper Fisher Jurvetson
John Occhipinti Managing
Director
Woodside Fund
Marc Burch Principal
Burch Ventures
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| Launch: Silicon Valley 2008: AGENDA |
| June 9 |
| 6:00pm |
Pre-Event Party at a prestigious location in Palo Alto for Presenting Company Executives, Registered Audience Members, Bloggers, Press, Sponsors, Advisory Board and invited guests. |
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| June 10 |
| 11:30am |
Registration and Lunch
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| Noon |
Opening Remarks |
| 1:00pm: |
Keynote Speaker –Seth Sternberg, Founder/CEO, Meebo |
| 1:30pm: |
Sessions 1 & 2 in parallel, 5 presentations each |
| 2:30pm: |
Networking Break |
| 3:00pm: |
Sessions 3 & 4 in parallel, 5 presentations each |
| 4:00pm: |
Networking Break |
| 4:30pm: |
Sessions 5 & 6 in parallel, 5 presentations each |
| 5:30pm: |
Awards |
| 6:00pm: |
Reception, Keynote Speaker – Tim Draper, Managing Director, Draper Fisher Jurvetson. |
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| EARLY BIRD REGISTRATION extended till May 31, 2008! |
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SVASE Members |
Non-Members |
| Launch:Silicon Valley |
$145 |
$195 |
| Launch:SV Invited Presenting Company (inc. Networking Table
+ 2 tix) |
$595 |
$750 |
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| FULL PRICE REGISTRATION from
June 1, 2008 |
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SVASE Members |
Non-Members |
| Launch:Silicon Valley |
$195 |
$245 |
| Launch:SV Invited Presenting Company (inc. Networking Table
+ 2 tix) |
$595 |
$750 |
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| LOCATION |
Microsoft Building 1, 1065 La Avenida St, Mountain View, CA 94043 |
| Speaker Biographies: |
Tim Draper:
Timothy C. Draper is the Founder and a Managing Director of Draper Fisher Jurvetson. His original suggestion to use " viral marketing" in web-based e-mail to geometrically spread an Internet product to its market was instrumental to the successes of Hotmail and YahooMail, and has been adopted as a standard marketing technique to hundreds of businesses. On behalf of Draper Fisher Jurvetson, Mr. Draper serves on the boards of Glam.com, Tagworld, SocialText, decentral.tv, and Chroma Graphics. Previous successes include: Skype (EBAY), Overture.com (YHOO), Baidu (BIDU), Parametric Technology (PMTC), Hotmail (MSFT), PLX Technologies (PLXT), Preview Travel (TVLY) and Digidesign (AVID), among others.
Mr. Draper launched the Draper Affiliate Network, an international network of early-stage venture capital funds with offices in over 30 cities around the globe. He founded or co-founded DFJ EPlanet (global), Draper Fisher Jurvetson Gotham (NYC), Zone Ventures (LA), Wasatch Ventures (Salt Lake City), , Draper Atlantic (Reston), Draper Triangle (Pittsburg), Timberline Ventures (Portland), Polaris Fund (Anchorage), DFJ Frontier (Sacramento and Santa Barbara), and DFJ Dragon (Shanghai).
As an advocate for entrepreneurs and free markets, Mr. Draper is regularly featured as a keynote speaker in entrepreneurial conferences throughout the world, has been recognized as a leader in his field through numerous awards and honors, and has frequent TV radio, and headline appearances. He was #7 on Forbes Midas List and #52 on the list of the most influential Harvard Alumni.
Mr. Draper is also the course creator and Chairman of BizWorld, a 501c3 organization built around simulated teaching of entrepreneurship and business to children. He served on the California State Board of Education. In November of 2000, Mr. Draper launched a statewide cyber-initiative on school choice for the California General Election. He is a member of Singapore’s Economic Advisory Council and Ukraine’s Orange Circle. He is on the Board of U.C. Berkeley’s Haas School of Business. He has a BS in Electrical Engineering from Stanford University, and an MBA from Harvard Business School. |
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Seth Sternberg
Seth is the co-founder and CEO of meebo.com, the live interaction platform of the web. Prior, Seth attended Stanford Business School and launched meebo with Elaine Wherry and Sandy Jen after a summer internship at Warburg Pincus. Seth left Stanford to pursue meebo, which serves over 20 million people monthly. meebo has raised $3.5m from Sequoia Capital, $9m from Draper Fisher Jurvetson and most recently $25m from JAFCO, Time Warner and KTB. Seth previously worked in IBMıs Corporate Development group as an M&A Lead and is a graduate of Yale University, where he majored in Political Science. Seth enjoys tennis and rollerblading and is an avid private pilot. |
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