SDForum Workshop: How to Sell to Venture Capitalists April 27, 2010

SDForum Workshop: How to Sell to Venture Capitalists

Workshop Presented by: Jonathan Baer

Everyone knows that Sand Hill Road has the largest concentration of venture capitalists in the world. As many startup entrepreneurs know, getting a VC to invest can often mean the difference between success and failure. Many others also want to reach out to the venture community when seeking a new position within a venture backed company, for finding consulting opportunities with portfolio companies or for introductions to others. How do you do this? What VC should you contact and what approach works best. This seminar will give you some practical tips on how you find the right VC (not all VC's are the same), how to approach them and other ways to make your efforts more successful.

About the Speaker:
Jon is a senior executive who brings a unique perspective to the world of startups. He has been a venture capitalist as well as the founder and CEO of two venture backed companies, eBoomerang, an enterprise software company which was sold in 2006 and Artificial Muscle, Inc., a spinout from Stanford Research Institute (SRI). As a principal and founder of Threshold Ventures, Jon works with companies around the world serving as an advisor/mentor, creating venture backed companies from emerging new technologies, and helping international companies develop and execute plans for entering the U.S. market. He has worked with a wide range of software, telephony, hardware and services businesses. Earlier in his career Jon was a General Partner at Oscco Ventures, a Sand Hill Road early-stage venture capital firm which was one of the pioneering firms in Silicon Valley.

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