Topic: Launching a Startup In Houston: Perspectives on Developing Tech Ideas in the Houston MarketPlace.
Presenter: Marc Nathan, Vice President of Strategy at ChaiOne; Partner at Kain Management Group; Board member at Only in Houston.
Event planner: Dan Valdez, Partner, Enterprise Builders LLC and Co-founder of the Zebec Center.
Topic: The Cool Factor: How to Attract Talent, VCs and Advisors to Your Startup
Presenters: Howard Hartenbaum of August Capital; Jonathan Baer of Threshold Ventures; Mark Greenough of Greenough Consulting Group.
San Francisco Roundtable
Topic: Start-up Secrets: What to Share & When (to validate your concept, understand the marketplace, put relationships in place).
Presenters: Rama Sekhar of Norwest Venture Partners, Bilal Ahmed of @mytweetmark and @homecookme, and Lowell Ness and Joseph Perkins of Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP.
Silicon Valley Roundtable
Topic: Start-up Secrets: What to Share & When (to validate your concept, understand the marketplace, put relationships in place).
To sign up please visit http://foundersspacesvapr2011.eventbrite.com/
Presenters: Rama Sekhar of Norwest Venture Partners, Bilal Ahmed of @mytweetmark and @homecookme, and Lowell Ness and Joseph Perkins of Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP.
Join us for the Founders Space San Francisco Roundtable, where founders gather around a table to share knowledge and work together to solve problems.
Topic: The Cool Factor: How to Attract Talent, VCs and Advisors to Your Startup
Join us for the Founders Space Houston Roundtable, where founders gather around a table to share knowledge and work together to solve problems. To join a Roundtable, you must be a founder or C-level executive at a growth-oriented startup or emerging company.
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Topic: Launching a Startup In Houston: Perspectives on Developing Tech Ideas in the Houston MarketPlace.
Jon Baer
Jon Baer of Threshold Ventures is a senior executive who brings a unique perspective to the world of startups. He has been both a venture capitalist as well as the founder and CEO of two venture backed companies, eBoomerang, an enterprise software company which was sold in 2006 and Artificial Muscle, Inc., a spinout from Stanford Research Institute (SRI). As a principal and founder of Threshold Ventures, Jon works with companies around the world, serving as an advisor/mentor, working on specific projects and when appropriate, taking on interim operating roles. He has worked with a wide range of software, telephony, hardware and services businesses. Earlier in his career Jon was a General Partner at Oscco Ventures, a Sand Hill Road early-stage venture capital firm which was one of the pioneering firms in Silicon Valley. He has invested in a range of companies including Landec, Peerless Systems, and Coinstar.
Presenters: Roger Royse of Royse Law Firm; Mairtini Ni Dhomhnaill of Accretive Solutions; and Ed Fu of Rustic Canyon Partners.
Los Angeles Chapter Leader: Pondra Perkins.
Dan Valdez, Partner at Enterprise Builders LLC, hosted the Houston Founders Space Roundtable, and it was a big success. The event was held at the Zebec Center, 2425 Fountainview, Houston, TX 77057.
Below are the photos:
Houston Founders Space Roundtable
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