We attended the AlwaysOn Venture Summit last week at the fabulous Ritz Carlton Half Moon Bay. The mashup includes Trends in Venture Capital Financing Terms in Silicon Valley w Barry Kramer, Partner, Fenwick & West & Tony Perkins, Founder AlwaysOn. Venture Capital Business Outlook w Ann Winblad, Managing Director Hummer Winblad; Rob Chaplinksy, Managing Director Bridgescale; Paul Matteucci, General Partner USVP. The Socialization of the Entertainment Industry w Eric Kuhn, Agent Head of Social Media United Talent Agency. The Socialization of Online Video & TV w David Russek, Founder SevenEcho, Tim Lee, CoFounder Miso; Anne-Marie Roussel, Head of Acquisitions & Partnerships Sharp Labs America; Jason Krikorian, General Partner DCM &The Android Investment Fund. The Business of Games w Mark Stevens, Partner Private Equity Group Fenwick & West; Lars Buttler, CEO Trion Worlds; Hany Nada, Partner GGV Capital & Jeff Bell, Chairman DOMedia. Social Commerce & Marketing – What’s Next? w Lorraine McDonough, VP Corp Dev ebay; Brian Wong, CEO Kiip; Usama Fayyad, Chairman Choozon; Brian Ascher, Partner Venrock. The Magic Behind Steve Jobs & Apple’s Marketing w Bill Cleary, Founder Cleary & Partners.
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Prashant Shah, TIE Angels: Questions for Entrepreneurs
Prashant Shah is an active Charter Member of TiE Silicon Valley where he helped launch TiE Angels and is on its Steering Committee. He also ran TiE’s Software SIG from 2003 – 2010. In addition, he is Chair of the Board of Trustees for Astia. From December 2000, he spent nearly 10 years at Hummer Winblad Venture Partners and was instrumental in many investments including Baynote, Bridgestream, Cenzic, EvoStor, InMage, Jareva Technologies, Krillion, Pancetera, Scalent, SyncVoice, Tizor and Voltage Security. Prior to Hummer Winblad, Prashant spent many years defining and launching high tech products. His background spans all seven layers of the OSI stack with product management roles at enCommerce (acquired by Entrust), Cypress Semiconductor and AT&T. Prashant received a BS in Electrical Engineering from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, and an MBA from the University of Chicago.
Herve Lebret: Difference in European and US Venture Capitalists
Video interview with Hervé Lebret. Hervé manages the Innogrants @ EPFL (the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne), a program supporting startup creation. The program includes grants to entrepreneurs and conferences where role models share their entrepreneurial experience with students and researchers. From 1997 to 2004, he was with Index Ventures, the pan-European venture capital firm which invested in Skype, mysql, Virata, Addex, Genmab. He began his career in academia in electrical engineering and applied mathematics at ENSTA and ONERA (Paris). He is also the author of the book “Start-Up, what we may still learn from Silicon Valley” . Hervé Lebret is a graduate of Ecole Polytechnique (Paris) and Stanford University. He holds a PhD in Electrical Engineering from Université de Rennes. You can find Herve @ his blog & on Twitter @hlebret