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Funding Related Events Archive
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VENTURE
CAPITAL EVENTS
PricewaterhouseCoopers Shaking
the MoneyTree
2000 Q3 Survey Results (11.29.00)
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Living
on the Fault Line--Managing for Shareholder
Value in the Age of the Internet (10.26.00)
The very bedrock of
business is shifting. Shockwaves
are being felt around the globe. The fault line isn’t
just in California. It’s
everywhere. And
it’s the Internet.
Join Geoffrey Moore, author of Living
on the Fault Line,
and Netpreneur.org for a lively, interactive, and thought shifting
dialogue on the new market dynamics and how to manage for value in
the Internet Economy.
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Jeff Osborn
on: The Real Deal--
Financing Ideas to IPO (09.20.00)
Join
the netpreneur community for straight talk from Jeff Osborn of
Osborn Capital on financing and building companies. What are the
four different types of venture capital financing and how do they
differ? What are the various stages of funding and what happens in
terms of valuation and dilution for the investors, founders and
employees? Jeff will address these and other issues. After
experience in the trenches as an entrepreneur followed by a
successful career as an executive with UUNET, Jeff now helps new
ventures as a business angel investor.
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PricewaterhouseCoopers Shaking
the MoneyTree
2000 Q2 Survey Results (08.31.00)
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PricewaterhouseCoopers Shaking
the MoneyTree
2000 Q1 Survey Results (05.31.00)
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PricewaterhouseCoopers Shaking
the MoneyTree
1999 Survey Results (02.29.00)
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Science, Art or Sorcery?
Perspectives on
Setting (and Enhancing) the Valuation of .com Startups
(12.15.99)
Here's a topic that evokes
more emotions and questions from netpreneurs than most--company
valuation. Come hear from four people who are right in the middle of
the valuation discussion and learn from their very different perspectives:
an investment banker and well-known author, a VC, a netpreneur, and a
specialist in economic analysis, finance and valuation services. Then,
ask your own questions and interact with the panel.
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A conversation with Tim Draper
(5.6.99)
Venture capitalist Tim Draper, whose firm has backed such Internet success
stories as Hotmail.com and about 40 other trail blazers, shared unconventional wisdom
about what it takes to make it big on the Net.
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Angels & Revolutionaries
(11.18.98)
Guy Kawasaki, Gerald Benjamin, and a panel of other distinguished experts discuss
how to create and fund startups in the new economy.
NOTE: This event
video is in the process of being moved. We should have it live and
well within a week. Thanks for your patience and please check back!
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Life in the food chain: Steve
Walker shares lessons learned, from startup to buy out (8.27.98)
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People define the deals:
Venture capitalists share the formula for funding success (7.28.98)
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Netpreneurs discuss their
first funding experiences (5.21.98)
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ANGEL
FUNDING EVENTS
Angels & Revolutionaries
(11.18.98)
Guy Kawasaki, Gerald Benjamin, and a panel of other distinguished experts discuss
how to create and fund startups in the new economy.
NOTE: This event
video is in the process of being moved. We should have it live and
well within a week. Thanks for your patience and please check back!
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| Q&A w/Guy Kawasaki | Q&A w/Gerald Benjamin | Sponsors
Jeff Osborn
on: The Real Deal--
Financing Ideas to IPO (09.20.00)
Join
the netpreneur community for straight talk from Jeff Osborn of
Osborn Capital on financing and building companies. What are the
four different types of venture capital financing and how do they
differ? What are the various stages of funding and what happens in
terms of valuation and dilution for the investors, founders and
employees? Jeff will address these and other issues. After
experience in the trenches as an entrepreneur followed by a
successful career as an executive with UUNET, Jeff now helps new
ventures as a business angel investor.
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Netpreneurs discuss their
first funding experiences (5.21.98)
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ENTREPRENUERSHIP/STARTUPS
EVENTS
Guy Kawasaki on: The
Top Ten Lies of Entrepreneurs (11.14.00)
Guy
Kawasaki is the CEO of Garage.com,
a venture capital investment bank. His company receives more than 10,000
business plans a year, so he's heard all
the lies the entrepreneurs tell. In his talk, he will skewer these
lies and offer
better ones.
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Presentation
(2.95MB .pdf file) 
Copyright © 1999-2000,
Garage.com
When Startups Stop...
If I knew then what I know now (07.20.00)
More important than
the stories about "dot.bombs" and Web sites with [expletive
deleted] names are the actual experiences of entrepreneurs who have
started businesses that didn't exactly follow the original path, or
end up where their founders had planned. Join us and hear from a panel
whose lessons learned will be of interest to any entrepreneur who is
starting or growing a business.
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Making
the Leap
A conversation about risk taking (06.22.00)
Join us for a
lively netpreneur community conversation with Tom Ashbrook, award
winning journalist, a founder of HomePortfolio.com and author of The
Leap, A memoir of Love and Madness in the Internet Gold Rush. Tom will
share lessons from his own leap into the New Economy and lead an
interactive discussion with netpreneurs on taking the plunge.
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Views from the Valley (05.17.00)
"Views from the Valley"
features a panel with an investor (Ginger Lew), an entrepreneur (Matthew Haley), and an attorney (David Sylvester) who have spent
time both in Silicon Valley and our nation's capital. They will
share their insights as to the differences in the startup world
between our two regions and lessons learned in Silicon Valley that
might be particularly helpful and relevant to Greater Washington's
netpreneurs.
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Garage to. . .
Building a Business of Your Own (04.20.00)
"Garage to
gorilla" isn't the path for everyone. Today, one in 12 people is
likely to be engaged in a startup. Only a fraction of those startups
will go public or be acquired. The vast majority of them will be
self-employment ventures or small businesses. Join us with our panel
of New Economy entrepreneurs who are not planning on going public or
necessarily being acquired.
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Newsapalooza!
An interactive conversation with leading journalists on how startups get coverage.
(10.19.99)
What do reporters and journalists look for in
a story: how can you rise above the clutter; do the rules associated with print apply to
the online world; how can a startup get ink; what are the landmines in dealing with the
press... .
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From Garage to Gorilla
(6.8.99)
Many claim that the Internet has enabled a New Economy with new obstacles and
opportunities. Are the rules for starting and growing a successful business really
changing? What will the big opportunities be for Internet startups? Marc Andreessen and
Ted Leonsis discussed their startup experiences, shared advice on where the opportunities
are, and offered a vision for the future.
NOTE: This event
video is in the process of being moved. We should have it live and
well within a week. Thanks for your patience and please check back!
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How ego and greed can infect
any entrepreneur (6.25.98)
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Stars of E-Commerce (6.4.98)
Five seasoned entrepreneurs from the Greater Washington region who have made and
lost millions in their quest to innovate electronic transactions share their visions of
the future of electronic commerce.
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The Stars of Telecom
(10.22.97)
Five CEOs representing the Greater Washington region’s thriving telecom
industry supply a mixture of strategy, humor, war stories, aphorisms and encouragement in
summing up their successful ventures.
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A checklist for business
positioning
(with Mario Morino) (3.26.98)
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Do you need a business plan?
(with Mario Morino) (2.25.98)
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An Evening With The Barons
(6.12.97)
TechCapital calls these four business leaders the "Barons of the
Beltway" because of their prominence in the region’s technology community. Here
they provide a retrospective of their careers, discussing strategy, financing, hiring, and
partnering in Net-based businesses.
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TECHNOLOGY/NEW
ECONOMY EVENTS
Dr.
Jeffrey Sampler on: Be Quick or Be
Dead:
Strategies for the New Economy (10.18.00)
Join Netpreneur.org and Jeffrey
Sampler, Associate Professor of Information Management and
Strategy at the London Business School and thought leader on
competitive strategies in the New Economy, for an provocative and
interactive discussion on competition in the digital age. Learn
how the new economy is challenging the many concepts of
traditional competitive strategy and about new sources of
competitive advantage.
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Dynamic Trade (presented by
Forrester Research) (3.25.99)
Dynamic trade--defined by Forrester as leveraging technology to satisfy current
demand with customized response--will define the rules of the Internet economy, according
to John C. McCarthy, Group Director New Media Services at Forrester Research Inc.
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The "Net" impact on
business, with Bill Whyman (10.21.98)
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Heart of an economic
transformation (6.11.98)
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INVESTMENT
BANKING EVENTS
Anatomy
of an Acquisition
. . .the
netpreneur perspective (02.24.00)
The
frenzy of companies buying companies is changing the Internet
industry landscape daily. And we're seeing the frenzy in the
netpreneur community here in Greater Washington. Join us for a conversation with three
netpreneurs who have recently sold their companies.
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Speaker
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Science, Art or Sorcery?
Perspectives on
Setting (and Enhancing) the Valuation of .com Startups
(12.15.99)
Here's a topic that evokes
more emotions and questions from netpreneurs than most--company
valuation. Come hear from four people who are right in the middle of
the valuation discussion and learn from their very different perspectives:
an investment banker and well-known author, a VC, a netpreneur, and a
specialist in economic analysis, finance and valuation services. Then,
ask your own questions and interact with the panel.
Summary | Transcript |
Video |
Speaker
Bios | Feedback |
Rollups (4.22.99)
It was a debate in which both sides agreed on the fundamental
principle—roll-ups can be a good business strategy... sometimes for some companies.
They can also be a mistake, however, so when and why become important questions. Featured
speakers: Drew Clark of Verio East and Nelson Carbonell of Alta Software.
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REGIONAL EVENTS
Views from the Valley (05.17.00)
"Views from the Valley"
features a panel with an investor (Ginger Lew), an entrepreneur (Matthew Haley), and an attorney (David Sylvester) who have spent
time both in Silicon Valley and our nation's capital. They will
share their insights as to the differences in the startup world
between our two regions and lessons learned in Silicon Valley that
might be particularly helpful and relevant to Greater Washington's
netpreneurs.
Summary | Transcript | Video | Speaker
Bios | Feedback
BUSINESS/FINANCE/MANAGEMENT/ECONOMICS
EVENTS
Global
Business: Challenges & Opportunities
(12.13.00)
If
you are not tapping into global markets, you are not maximizing
your company's potential. Yet, why do so many businesses with
e-commerce capabilities *not* sell their products internationally?
What are the obstacles facing U.S. companies in successfully doing
global e-commerce? Are these obstacles an opportunity? How are
companies succeeding with online and offline international
business?
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Cluetrain:
The End of Business as Usual (3.07.00)
Markets are conversations. And this
conversation started online as the Cluetrain Manifesto.
It continues online and offline. Talk about networked
markets. Hyperlinked organizations. The decentralization of time.
The meaning of voice. Story telling. Personalization. Talk to each
other.
It's a netpreneur community
conversation.
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Now or Never.
The battle for Internet consumers. (11.10.99)
Demographics? Psychographics? The new way to
segment customers is Technographics, according to Forrester Research. The Battle for
Internet Consumers looks at the ways in which consumer behavior on the Internet is
changing. Guest speaker is Mary Modahl of Forrester research.
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Email Marketing:
What you don't know can hurt you ... (9.23.99)
Jupiter
Communications estimates that by 2002, opt-in email marketing will be
a $3 billion market. As clickthrough rates for Web banner
advertisements continue to decline below 1%, Rosalind Resnick reports
that those for opt-in email remain in the 5-15% range, "and, for
some of our lists, even higher."
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Partner or Perish:
Leveraging relationships to grow your business (7.22.99)
One and one can add up to more than two when businesses come together in the
right kind of strategic relationship. Our experts from Value America and womenCONNECT.com
shared insights about using relationships to build Internet businesses.
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Affiliate Marketing
(2.24.99)
When it comes to building an affiliate network on the Internet, context is king,
according to experts on this hottest of trends in online marketing. Tom Gerace of
BeFree,
Inc. and Brian Hecht of the Electronic Newsstand shared their tricks of a trade that is
expected to generate billions of dollars. It’s the latest buzz in Internet retailing.
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Stars of E-Commerce (6.4.98)
Five seasoned entrepreneurs from the Greater Washington region who have made and
lost millions in their quest to innovate electronic transactions share their visions of
the future of electronic commerce.
Summary | Transcript
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Recruiting is a never-ending
process
(with Mario Morino) (4.23.98)
Summary | Transcript
A checklist for business
positioning
(with Mario Morino) (3.26.98)
Summary | Transcript
Do you need a business plan?
(with Mario Morino) (2.25.98)
Summary | Transcript
Little guys get big tips on
strategic partnering (1.22.98)
Summary
The ups and downs of building
your team (12.19.97)
Summary
The Stars of Telecom
(10.22.97)
Five CEOs representing the Greater Washington region’s thriving telecom
industry supply a mixture of strategy, humor, war stories, aphorisms and encouragement in
summing up their successful ventures.
Summary | Transcript
| Speaker Bios
An Evening With The Barons
(6.12.97)
TechCapital calls these four business leaders the "Barons of the
Beltway" because of their prominence in the region’s technology community. Here
they provide a retrospective of their careers, discussing strategy, financing, hiring, and
partnering in Net-based businesses.
Summary | Transcript
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