What makes one startup create exponential growth and the other flame out?

sfbayventures — Wed, 30 Jan 2008 08:44:47 +0000

There’s many conferences and unconferences that are dealing with many technical, tactical issues. And these are all good, but the key question is one that vexes those trying to pick the right horse, isn’t it?

Startup Epicenter Program, March 27-29: Should be a great event!

sfbayventures — Sun, 04 Mar 2007 03:23:37 +0000

SF Bay Ventures is proud to announce a program from one of our portfolio companies. It is called Startup Epicenter and the first will be a zinger. Quickly learn how to grasp the new media realities from experts in the field and those who are funding them. Blended together, these workshops should offer an exhilirating program designed to help those prepare for the fun yet uniquely challenging and sometimes exhausting demands of the entrepreneurial storyline. Whether you’re investing A or B rounds or seeking your first Angel investments.

March 27-29 Startup Epicenter Intensive Workshops

FYI: The program on March 29 starts at 2 in the afternoon, which leaves your morning free to attend the Compelling Demos Workshop that our Partner, SK Murphy, is presenting with Peter Cohan of the Second Derivative. We’re jazzed that he’s onboard!

Please visit the web site soon and enter the competition to take part in these exciting programs!There’s Vinod Khosla as the keynote speaker and an impressive line-up of VC’s (and Angels)…. here’s a partial list:

Clint Chao, General Partner, Formative Ventures
Richard Redelfs, General Partner, Foundation Capital
Richard Dickson, Partner, Fenwick & West & Chair, Startups and Venture Capital Group
Avery Lyford, CEO, Digisense
Dan Grosh, Partner, Nosal Partners
Ken Elefant, General Partner, Opus Capital
Ted Rheingold, “Top Dog,” Dogster, Catster
Philip Korn, Managing Director, SVB Capital
Carol Sands, Founder & Managing Member, The Angels’ Forum / Halo Funds
Jeff Nolan, CEO, Teqlo (formerly with SAP)
Jim Simmons, Entrepreneur In Residence, Draper Richards
John Steuart, Managing Director, Claremont Creek Ventures
Sramana Mitra, “entrepreneur CEO”
Rich Simoni, Partner, Asset Management Company
Brian Hajima Ogata, Chair, WCA RFID SIG
Will Price, Principal, Hummer Winblad
Anand Jagannathan, CEO, Kriyari
Stowe Boyd, Co-Founder Blue Whale Labs, /Message
Noah Kagen, Founder, OkDork.com & MyMint.com
many more to be added – please check daily

Just some of the panelists include the following:

Prashant Shah, Principal, Hummer Winblad
Jim Tyber, Trinity Ventures
Steve Dines, Managing Director, Sand Hill Angels
Richard Helfrich, Managing Director, Alameda Capital
Ram Sriram, EIR, Fuji Xerox
Dylan Steeg, Sr. Investment Manager, Intel Capital
TBD, Keiretsu Forum
TBD, Band of Angels
TBD, SVB Capital
TBD, Norwest Venture Partners (NVP)
many more to be added – please check daily

Apply here to take part in the Funding Pitch portion of the intensive workshops. Send a 1-2 page executive summary and at least two of the following items to be considered for one of the openings for this program.

web page – secure view acceptable
link to product demo
blog link
video on YouTube,etc.
Customer Referral/Testimonial(s)
1-2 paragraph description (your 30-45 sec. pitch)
Financial Estimates
PowerPoint funding pitch presentation

Please do not send: Business plan

E-Mail to Applications-at-StartupEpicenter

It’s a rolling admissions process that started yesterday, March 2nd.

Thanks for attending the SVASE Events!

sfbayventures — Sat, 29 Apr 2006 19:25:19 +0000

The almost always increasing attendance since last October is quite heartening indeed! We have the five Startup-U sites, but we will start to consolidate these down to three most likely. There are also new programs that may come online including SVASE BIGs, and other programs with partners such as Plug & Play in Sunnyvale and others that we can’t mention yet.