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Date: Saturday, August 23, 2008
Topic:Venture Capital for Technopreneurship
Speakers: Prasanna Krishnan, Associate and Kauffman Fellow at Draper Fisher Jurvetson
Venue:ICC Milpitas, 555 Los Coches St, Milpitas, CA 95035
Time: 10:00 am - noon (US Pacific Time)
Agenda:
          10:00 am - 10:15 am - Networking
          10:15 am - 12:00 pm - Presentations by speakers followed by Q&A
          12:00 pm - 01:00 pm - Lunch (tentative)

Event Speakers/Panelists Details Date
1 Power of the BITSAA Network for the BITSian Entrepreneur Alagu Periyannan, Jayan Ramankutty, Prem Jain, Punita Pandey, Raju Reddy, Vivek Paul

Slides
Video

Mar 19, 2006
2 Funding for startup:
How to raise your first round?

Jayan Ramankutty, Founder/CEO - Yume Networks

Slides
Video
Jun 25, 2006
3

From idea to success: The Pinnacle Systems Story: From start to $350 million and a successful exit

Ajay Chopra, Venture Consultant - Trinity Ventures and Founder - Pinnacle Systems

Slides Jul 15, 2006
4 “Hot Areas for Startup" Series I: Mobile value-chain: Perspectives on enterprise mobility Sundeep Gupta, Director of Product Management & Marketing - Orative Slides
Video
Audio
July 29, 2006
5 Experiences of a first time entrepreneur - things to do and things not to do Manish Rathi, Co-founder/Director of Engineering - Retrevo Inc Slides
Video
Audio
Aug 12, 2006
6 Zeevo – A startup’s journey through ups and downs Vikram Gupta, Senior Manager - Broadcom and Founder - Zeevo Slides
Video
Audio
Aug 26, 2006
7 Back from the dead – Redback & Blue Coat - valuable lessons for entrepreneurs from these turnarounds Shailesh Shukla, Vice President of Strategic Marketing - Juniper Networks and ex-Vice President of Strategy - Redback Networks
Alagu Periyannan, CTO - BlueCoat Systems
Slides Sep 29, 2006
8 Is MBA important to be an Entrepreneur Sanjay Nath, Co-founder and CEO - Loxodrome Solutions
Rajat Mathur, MBA student at London Business School / Columbia Business School
Slides Oct 14, 2006
9 Leveraging hungry MBA students at Haas for you next startup idea Sanjay Goil, Phalguni Nanda & Aanand Krishan, MBA students at UC Berkeley Haas School of Business Slides-1
Slides-2
Video
Audio
Nov 19, 2006
10 Intrapreneurship -
How corporate entrepreneurs make it big
Dinesh Ramanathan, EVP - Cypress Semiconductor

Slides
Video
Audio

Feb 3, 2007
11 Business Plan Workshop - I

Ajay Chopra, Trinity Ventures
Madan Bellam, CEO - Teracare
Vijay Parikh, Global Catalyst Partners

Slides-1
Slides-2
Notes
Feb 25, 2007
12

Early Stage Offshore R&D: benefits and pitfalls

Raju Reddy, Founder and CEO - Sierra Atlantic
Amar Kapadia, Sr. Director Mkgt - Emulex, Founder - Aarohi Communications

Slides-1
Slides-2
Video
Mar 24, 2007
13 MBA Admissions: All you ever wanted to know Aanand Krishnan - UC Berkeley Haas
Ishmeet Singh - Kellogg
Tarun Desikan- Stanford Univeristy

Slides-A
Slides-I
Slides-T
Video1
Video2

May 13, 2007

Contacts:
Himani Apte (himaniapte[AT]yahoo[DOT]com)
Pradheep Elango (pradheep.ke[AT]gmail[DOT]com)

 

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