Silicon Valley Entrepreneurs to Meet Active Investors at FundingPost's VC and Angel Event on Thursday, October 14, 2010

Silicon Valley, CA (PRWEB) September 25, 2010

On October 14, 2010, FundingPost (http://www.FundingPost.com) will be hosting a panel discussion with local Angel Investors and Venture Capitalists at its "Silicon Valley VC and Angel Conference," sponsored by Bingham McCutchen LLC. FundingPost has organized 170+ sold-out venture events over the past nine years. Leading Venture Capital and Angel investors are set to speak and coach entrepreneurs at the FundingPost Silicon Valley event on October 14, 2010. The FundingPost Event Calendar and registration information are online at: http://www.fundingpost.com/breakfast/reg1.asp?event=177&refer=PR

Top Venture Firms will gather at FundingPost's upcoming event to discuss the trends in Early-Stage Investing, hot sectors, sectors that these Angels and VCs look at, things that are most important to them when they are considering an Investment, the best and worst things an entrepreneur can do to get their attention, additional advice for entrepreneurs, and, of course, the best ways to reach these and other Investors.

Moderator:

Adrian Shulman, Partner, Bingham McCutchen

Speakers:

Clint Chao, General Partner, Formative Ventures

Karan Mehandru, Prinicpal, Trinity Ventures

Ed Esber, Co-Managing Partner, The Halo Fund

Steve Goldberg, Partner, Venrock

Larry Marcus, Walden Venture Capital

Eric Chen, Angel Investor

Stephen Lee, Principal, Samsung

"We received great feedback from our last Silicon Valley event and are looking forward to returning and introducing a new panel with more deal-seeking Angel Investors and Venture Capitalists," said Joe Rubin, Director, FundingPost. "Early-stage VCs are always on the lookout for great ideas, and FundingPost is proud to provide a forum for these investors to locate promising new ventures.

As with all FundingPost events, there will be pitching, a cocktail party and plenty of networking time! There is still space available, but the event is limited! To register to attend, visit: http://www.fundingpost.com/breakfast/reg1.asp?event=177&refer=PR

ABOUT FUNDINGPOST:

With over 9,500 CEOs and 650 Venture Capital Funds attending events in 19 cities nationwide; a printed Dealflow Magazine; and a deal-exchange website with over 7,600 VC and Angel Investor members and over 125,000 companies, that has, on average, made an introduction of an Investor to an Entrepreneur every business day since its inception, FundingPost believes that it is important to reach investors in every medium possible - both online and offline. FundingPost has been responsible for Millions of dollars in Venture Capital Raised! For more information: http://www.FundingPost.com

Contact:

Heather Coull

FundingPost.com

800-461-5509

press(at)FundingPost(dot)com

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Eckhart Tolle, Silicon Valley Leaders to be Featured at Wisdom 2.0

Redwood City, CA (PRWEB) November 03, 2011

The Wisdom 2.0 Conference is a one-of-a-kind event in Silicon Valley which brings together people from a variety of disciplines, including technology leaders, Zen teachers, neuroscientists, and academics, to explore the merging of wisdom in modern life. Founded in 2009 by Soren Gordhamer, author of Wisdom 2.0: Ancient Secrets for the Creative and Constantly Connected, the Wisdom 2.0 Conference is rapidly becoming a staple of the Silicon Valley calendar; in 2011, the conference sold out a month early, and the livestream garnered 284,000 views.

"In our increasingly connected lives, are we going to live more distracted and overwhelmed," asks Gordhamer, "or can we live mindfully and wisely, and use technology for a greater purpose?" At the third annual Wisdom 2.0 Conference this February, wisdom teachers such as Eckhart Tolle and Jon Kabat-Zinn will join technology leaders, including the founders of Facebook, Paypal and Zynga, to explore this vital question.

The 2012 conference boasts more than 25 presenters, including Dustin Moskovitz, co-founder of Facebook and Asana; Padmasree Warrior, Chief Technology Officer of Cisco Systems; Karen May, Vice President of Google; and Premal Shah, president of kiva.org. These technology gurus will share the stage with mindfulness teacher Jon Kabat-Zinn; Buddhist teacher Jack Kornfield; yoga activist Seane Corn; and for the first time, Eckhart Tolle, whom Oprah calls the father of the now. Tolle is the author of the #1 New York Times bestseller The Power of Now and the highly acclaimed follow-up A New Earth, and is regarded as one of the most influential spiritual teachers of his generation.

Together, Wisdom 2.0 presenters and participants will explore ways for the constantly-connected modern person to evolve and thrive in a dramatically changing world. There is little question whether the external technologies of our age, from computers to cell phones, will continue to advance, says Gordhamer. The more vital question is whether our internal technologies of wisdom and compassion will advance along with them.

Wisdom 2.0 2012 will be held February 23rd - 26th at Hotel Sofitel in Redwood City, California and at Googles corporate headquarters in Mountain View. For more information, visit Wisdom 2.0 online at http://www.wisdom2conference.com.

Wisdom 2.0 is, quite possibly, the most important gathering of our times."

Rich Fernandez, Director of Executive Development, Google

"Wisdom 2.0 has catalyzed I think the next wave of what is actually happening in Silicon Valley, this wave of awareness.

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Silicon Valley Entrepreneur and Strategy Consultant Sramana Mitra

CA (PRWEB) October 13, 2006

Silicon Valley Entrepreneur and Strategy Consultant Sramana Mitra is writing a series called Investment Thesis in her Blog, Sramana Mitra on Strategy. This series is a result of discussions with numerous entrepreneurs who are generally feeling that VCs are only interested in coming to the rescue of victory, and not really playing the role of risk-investors.

In her interviews with Venture Capitalists, and Angels, she asks questions like:

What stage are you looking to invest in over the next 6-12 months? What segment(s)? What market dynamics do you look for?

What size of investment are you looking to make?

What are your key investments and the rationale behind making those investments. This will help entrepreneurs understand how you process deals.

What kinds of deals are you interested in seeing?

a.. Describe, in some detail, the last deal you funded, and your rationale behind funding it.

b.. Do you fund capital-intensive deals?

c.. Do you fund built-to-flip deals?

d.. Do you fund "hits" businesses?

Describe your ideal entrepreneur.

Which VCs do you like to work with as part of a syndicate or follow-on?

What is your thesis on entrepreneurial / investment opportunities given the state of the market? What markets are likely to crash? What markets are likely to open up?

Recently, The Economist did a story called Business Angels: Giving Ideas Wings, addressing a similar concern. Sramana's series is specifically focused on the technology venture industry, by far the most active segment of the startup business.

From her recent post, "The Quest for Seed Continues":

"It is true. Most VCs don't do much early-stage investment anymore.

But since you would have to continue building your businesses, you need to find angels & perhaps some smaller VCs who would do your seed round. There are a few exceptions.

Here are four interviews with VCs from my Investment Thesis series that might help you think through your choices. I will continue this series further, and dig more into the topic later.

George Zachary, Charles River Ventures - Does seed investments, mostly in consumer plays, and open to any entrepreneur - proven or not. Alessandro Biral, Dali Hook Ventures - Does seed only if they already know you. Sumir Chadha, Sequoia Capital - Does seed, especially because his focus is India, and there are hardly any seed funds in India. Looking aggressively for deals, and competing in a very hot market. Alex Osadzinski, Trinity Ventures - Does seed only if they already know you."

About Sramana Mitra:

Sramana Mitra has been an entrepreneur and a strategy consultant in Silicon Valley since 1994. Her fields of experience span from hard core technology disciplines like semiconductors to sophisticated consumer marketing industries including fashion and education.

As an entrepreneur CEO, Sramana founded 3 companies: Dais (Off-shore Software Services), Intarka (Sales Lead Generation and Qualification Software; VC: NEA) and Uuma (Online Personalized Store for selling clothes using Expert Systems software; VC: Redwood). Two of these were acquired, while the third received an acquisition offer from Ralph Lauren which the company did not accept.

In her current role as a strategy consultant, Sramana consults with public companies like SAP (Enterprise Software), Cadence Design Systems (Electronic Design Automation), Webex (Online Collaboration), KLA-Tencor (Semiconductor Capital Equipment), Tessera (Electronics Miniaturization) among others. Over the last five years as a consultant, her work has also included numerous startups and VCs, and she played Interim VP Marketing roles for seven such ventures. Sramana has a proven track-record in turn-arounds, both small private companies (Example: think3) and divisions of larger companies (Example: a $ 100 Million Business Unit of Cadence). She has also created major growth strategies through new market penetration, M&A, Industry Roll-ups, etc.

Sramana has a Masters degree in EECS from MIT and a Bachelors degree in Computer Science and Economics from Smith College. She is on the Board of the MIT Club of Northern California's Entrepreneurship Program.

contact: http://www.sramanamitra.com/contactme/

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