SVPMA Monthly Event - The Secrets of Unlocking Access to Venture Capital with Ravi Belani, Stanford March 7, 2012

Organization: SVPMA - Silicon Valley Product Management Association
Topic: The Secrets of Unlocking Access to Venture Capital -- as a Career or for Funding
Speaker: Ravi Belani, Venture Capitalist, Instructor at Stanford University
Date: Wednesday, March 7th
Time: 6:30pm - 9pm
Location: Network Meeting Center at the TechMart - 5201 Great America Parkway, Santa Clara
Cost: Free for Members. $30 for pre-registered non-members before the day of the event. $40 on the day of the event
More info: http://svpma.org/events/monthly-meetings/

Presentation:
In this interactive dialogue, former Product Manager-turned-VC Ravi Belani will host an off-the-record forum to answer any burning questions for Product Managers intrigued by Venture Capital as a career path or funding source. Belani will describe the psychology you need to understand of VC's to know how to best work with them, and secrets for unearthing funding or a job offer from a fund. The agenda will be shaped by the audience's burning questions -- so please come with those in hand. No questions are off-limits.

About The Speaker:
Ravi Belani began his career in Product Management at two Kleiner Perkins-funded startups. From those roots, he went on to work as a consultant with McKinsey & Company, and a venture capitalist at Draper Fisher Jurvetson, where over the course of six years he sourced, led, and governed investments in game-changing companies like Pubmatic, Justin.TV, and Komli. Ravi now runs the Alchemist Accelerator -- the leading accelerator for Enterprise-focused Seed Startups, and teaches (with Heidi Roizen) Stanford University's survey Entrepreneurship course -- The Spirit of Entrepreneurship. Ravi holds a BS and MS in Industrial Engineering from Stanford University, and an MBA from Harvard Business School.

Official Website: http://svpma.org/events/monthly-meetings/