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Presentations
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Morning Session: |
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In the Starting Blocks...How to Build to Fund and Build to Last
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Opening Speaker
Building and Funding Companies in the Aftermath of the New York Tragedy
Mark White, White & Lee LLP, Menlo Park, CA
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Positioning Your Technology and Your Company for Success
John Zagula
Ignition Partners
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Panel Discussion 1: Building the Team in the Early Stages
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Developing Start Up Teams
Richard G. Strayer
Strayer Consulting Group
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Finding First Tier Management Talent the Old-Fashioned Way
Frank Moscow
Brentwood Group
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Hiring Your Team
Maureen Berg
Sr. Staffing Consultant, Intel
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Morning Break |
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Panel Discussion 2: Dressing the Company for the Financing Dance
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The Company Perspective - What to Say, What to Do, How to Close
Bruce Lichorowic
Principal, White & Lee Technology Venture Partners
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From Quinta to Capella: How the Game Has Changed in the Current Market
Dr. Joseph Davis
CEO, Capella Photonics
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Later Stage Financings and How to Work with the Private Placement Investment Banker in the Current Market
Salomon smith Barney Inc.
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Panel Discussion 3: Founder Beware...When Things Go Terribly Wrong
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Trends in Financing Terms: Founder/Management Control, Performance and Longevity
Kevin Brannon
Preston Gates & Ellis
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Making a Smooth Transition to a New Team
Paul Tomlinson
Organizational Psychologist, Alexander Hutton Venture Partners
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When Panicked Investors Comandeer the Company
Fadel Hamed
CEO, Lambda Optics
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Lunch Break |
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Afternoon Session: |
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The Mid-Life Idnetity Crises: Funding the Scaling Enterprise |
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Panel Discussion 4: Show me the Money...Where It's Gone and Where It's Going
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Down-Round Term Sheets...What to Negotiate and What to Accept
Jon Summers
Partner, White & Lee, LLP
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The State of Venture Capital
John Gabbert
Director of Research, VentureOne
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Panel Discussion 5: Mainstream VCs...The Perspective from the Valley to the Forest
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The View from the Silicon Valley...Investment Opportunities and Challenges
Robert Winter
Rocket Ventures
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The Skinny on Oregon...Tredns and Opportunities in the Oregon Technology Community
David Chen
OVP Venture Partners
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What's Happening in the Washington Technology Community
Jerry Keppler
Alexander Hutton Venture Partners
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4:00-4:15
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Afternoon Break |
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Strategic Investing with Intel Capital
Keith Larson
Intel Capital
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Panel Discussion 6: Money that Follows the Money
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Financing Solutions for Early Stage Businesses
Derek Ridgley
Silicon Valley Bank
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Asset Based Financing for Start-up and Emerging inancing Solutions for Early Stage Businesses
Ron Swenson
Western Technology Investment
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The State of the Oregon Technology Community...What's Going Right This Year
Scott Gibson
Founder of Sequent, Venture Investor and Technology Community Leader
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