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Venture Capital Series:
10.19.04
Living With Venture Capitalists Post-Investment
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5.11.04
Moving From The First Investor Meeting To A Successful Close
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6.4.03
Ignition
Netpreneur’s IGNITION event was one of the most inspirational evenings
in the community’s six-year history. More than 1600 entrepreneurs and
their supporters signed up to hear some of the region's leading tech
business figures talk about the critical lessons they’ve learned over
the years.
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10.26.00
Living on the Fault Line
Learn how to manage for shareholder value from Geoffrey Moore, one of the most respected experts on growing a tech
business.
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03.07.00
Cluetrain: The End of Business as Usual
“Markets are conversations,” say the authors of the Cluetrain Manifesto. This conversation covered networked markets, hyperlinked organizations and the decentralization of time.
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06.08.99
From Garage to Gorilla
Internet pioneers Marc Andreessen and Ted Leonsis discuss their startup experiences and share advice on where the opportunities are.
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11.18.98
Angels & Revolutionaries
Guy Kawasaki, Gerald Benjamin, and a panel of distinguished experts discuss how to create and fund startups in the New Economy.
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06.04.98
The Stars of eCommerce
Five veteran entrepreneurs talk about the future of electronic commerce and what it’s like to start and grow a technology business.
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10.22.97
The Stars of Telecom
Greater Washington is a center of the telecom industry. Five CEOs explain why, and offer a combination of strategy, stories and support for entrepreneurs.
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09.03.97
Maximizing
PR Efforts
Getting your story out is essential
for any business, but its often difficult for startups. Entrepreneurs had an
opportunity to "ask the
experts" for tips and pointers. Learn
more ...
06.12.97
An Evening With The Barons
TechCapital called these four business leaders the "Barons of the Beltway" because of their prominence in the region’s tech community. Read their insights into the world of Internet opportunities.
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5.30.03
Pulling The
Trigger
Every entrepreneur has to make
big decisions. Learn the how's and why's of making the tough calls
from this panel of veterans.
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4.22.03
Going
Global: Sales, Partnerships & Outsourcing
Anyone can go global, but the
hard part is doing it profitably.
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3.25.03
Closing Early Stage Sales
Startups
can sell to big companies if they work smart and have allies.
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2.25.03
Building a
Sales Organization
A panel of veterans cover
the cultural and structural issues in creating a your first sales
team.
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12.11.02
A Great Time
to Start a Business
A look at the past and
future of entrepreneurship in our region, and why times matter
less than vision, energy, and execution.
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11.14.02
Basic Training for
Entrepreneurs
You don't need big
bucks right out of the gate says Rob Adams, the
former Marine who runs Austin Ventures' bootcamp for
entrepreneurs.
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10.23.02
Blocking
and Tackling:
Operational Challenges for Startups
A panel of early-stage
entrepreneurs will discuss the
operational challenges that they face as their
startups grow.
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09.18.02
The Beermat
Entrepreneur:
What You Really Need to Know to Turn a Good Idea Into a
Great Business
The new book from Mike Southon and Chris
West explodes the myths about starting a business.
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07.24.02
A Question
of Scale: Growing (Into) Your Customer Base
Investors say it's all about revenue and customers, but that's not the
whole story.
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06.26.02
A Different Spin on
Startups
Entrepreneurs are thriving in some of
the last places you’d look -- big corporations.
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05.30.02
Sizing and
Validating Market Opportunities
How do you tell if a
market is viable and attractive? First ask,
"Attractive to whom?"
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04.24.02
Assessing
Your Value Proposition
It
takes more than technology to make a business, you must articulate a value proposition that customers, investors, and
other stakeholders can buy into.
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02.27.02
Leadership:
Building A Winning Corporate Culture
For startups,
intangibles like culture often take a back seat to immediate
survival issues. Here's why it shouldn’t.
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01.23.02
The Board Game:
Selecting the Best Advisors and Directors
A panel of veteran experts answer
practical questions about building, managing and using boards of
directors and advisors.
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03.27.02
VC
Confidential:
Understanding What Drives Venture Capital Investing
The rules of funding
have changed for entrepreneurs, and for VCs as well.
Learn about the new dynamics between VCs and their limited
partners.
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05.23.01
Cramdowns, Ratchets & Other Four-Letter Words
A journey through "Term Sheets 101" and some of the thornier conditions growing more popular in today's tighter financing climate.
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04.26.01
Bootstrapping Your Business On Your Own
Not everyone is chasing venture money. Here are tips from bootstrappers on how to start and grow a
businesses with scarce resources.
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03.22.01
I'm OK, You're OK, But We're Not Investing
A panel of funders share their thoughts on post-bubble investing including thoughts on what's often missing from the plan of seed and early-stage ventures.
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09.20.00
The Real Deal: Financing Ideas to IPO
Straight talk from Jeff Osborn of Osborn Capital on financing and building companies, including
discussion of the stages of funding, valuation and dilution.
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02.24.00
Anatomy of an Acquisition
With a panel of three netpreneurs who recently sold their companies.
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12.15.99
Science, Art or Sorcery?
Four perspectives on the arcane discipline of setting (and enhancing) the valuation of a startup company.
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05.06.99
A Conversation with Tim Draper
Tim Draper's VC firm has backed many of the Internet's biggest successes. Here he shares unconventional wisdom about making it big on the Net.
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04.22.99
Rollups: Are They Right For You?
On acquiring and being acquired in a time of industry consolidation.
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05.21.98
First Funding Experiences
Five entrepreneurs discuss what it's like pursuing investments from VCs and angels for the first time.
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11.14.01
Partner with
Power
Almost no corporation
entered the Fortune 50 achieved more than 5% annual growth on
their own, which is why so many partner with or invest in
entrepreneurs. Author Donald Laurie is joined by Mario Morino
offering pointers on how to work with industry giants.
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10.24.01
Product
Strategy & Management Insights
When products fail, it's often from a lack of strategy, resources or process. Two market
veterans helped entrepreneurs
improve their
odds for success.
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09.20.01
Driving
the Top Line:
Selling the Vision and Closing the Deals
The road to business success is paved with revenues.
Failure to close deals destines companies to be road kill on the
financial highway. Hear the panel share their experiences and
lessons learned in closing business to grow their companies.
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07.17.01
A Special Screening of Startup.com
After a private screening of Startup.com, the documentary film that takes a behind-the-scenes look at the
volatile world of Internet startups, then netpreneurs heard insights and analysis from the film's stars.
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06.20.01
Free Agency And The New Economy
Author Daniel Pink offers the eulogy for Organization Man and explains how America's new workers are transforming the way we live.
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02.22.01
When the Top Line Meets the Bottom Line
John Burton of Updata Capital shares strategies and insights on sales and distribution issues for startups.
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Looking Back....
12.13.00
Global Business Challenges & Opportunities
A survey of opportunities, issues and obstacles to going global for online and offline business from a panel that includes an ambassador, a VC and two tech entrepreneurs.
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11.14.00
The Top Ten Lies of Entrepreneurs
Tech guru, investor and entrepreneur Guy Kawasaki has heard them all. He skewers all the old standards and offers some better ones.
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10.18.00
Business Models for the New Economy
In this thought-provoking presentation, Jeffrey Sampler, Associate Professor at the London Business School, discusses competitive strategies in the New Economy.
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07.20.00
If I Knew Then What I Know Now
Hear the experiences of entrepreneurs who have started businesses that didn't exactly follow the path originally planned.
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06.22.00
Making the Leap
Tom Ashbrook is a journalist who took the entrepreneurial leap. He discusses his memoir of "love and madness in the Internet gold rush."
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05.17.00
Views from the Valley
An investor, an entrepreneur, and an attorney who have spent time in
DC and the Valley compare the two communities.
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04.20.00
From Garage to. . .?
Garage to Gorilla isn't the path for everyone.
One in 12 people will be engaged in a startup, but only a fraction go public or
get acquired. Some entrepreneurs plan to stay small.
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01.18.00
Intellectual Property Concepts and Realities
Get an overview of IP protection from a panel of legal experts, including topics such as patents, copyright,
trademarks and Internet marketing law.
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Looking Back....
11.10.99
The Battle For Internet Consumers
Mary Modahl of Forrester Research on a new way to segment customers using "Technographics."
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10.19.99
Newsapalooza!
A conversation with leading journalists on how startups can get more coverage.
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09.23.99
Email Marketing
Rosalind Resnick on opt-in email as an effective marketing tool.
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03.25.99
Dynamic Trade
John McCarthy of Forrester on using technology to satisfy customized demand.
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02.24.99
Affiliate Marketing
Tricks of the trade in building an online affiliate network.
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08.27.98
including Steve Walker's lessons learned from startup, to IPO, to buy out
06.25.98
including
how ego and greed can infect any entrepreneur
02.25.98
including
do you need a business plan?
01.22.98
including tips on strategic partnering
12.19.97
including the ups and downs of building your team
11.28.97
including an early discussion of eCommerce
10.31.97
including a "Business Challenge" on introducing a new product
09.30.97
first nighttime event and first "Business Challenge"
08.22.97
including a discussion on recruiting
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