- Topic: “What’s on the VC and Angel Checklists?” (Which company and founder attributes are attractive?)
- Presenters: Catharina Min and Donald Reinke of Reed Smith; Peter Craddock of Shoreline Venture Management; and Andy Bartley of Angels’ Forum.
Photos from Silicon Valley Roundtable 1
Photos from Silicon Valley Roundtable 2
Start-Up Traps: How to Steer Clear and Survive
Thursday, March 24, 2011 from 8:30 AM – 10:30 AM (PT)
Presenters: Mike Sullivan of Pillsbury Winthrop, David Feinleib of Mohr Davidow, and Bipul Sinha of Lightspeed Venture Partners.
You’re invited to attend Orrick’s complimentary TOTAL ACCESS program focused on the entrepreneur and venture capital communities. The March 16 event features panelists discussing the M&A and IPO market for cleantech companies.
Topics Include:
- Market Data for 2011
- Recent M&A and IPO Deals
- Multiple Perspectives on Recent Exits
- How to Prepare Your Company for an Exit
Moderator: Mitch Zuklie, Managing Partner of the Transactional Division, Orrick
How to Manage Your Board of Directors
Tom Kellerman & Scott Karchmer of Morgan Lewis, Marc Galletti of Longitude Capital, and Jad Dunning of DriverSide
As part of our Startup Spotlight, we’re featuring the mytweetmark and its founder, Bilal Ahmed.
Pitch:
mytweetmark is a platform of web 2.0 technologies and services. Create and measure tweets. Measure through analytics. Gain social media marketing influence on twitter. Promote your local food business and farmers’ markets with homecookme. mytweetmark platform is currently being used for local business in over 130 farmers’ markets in Northern California where we have the first mover advantage. We will be expanding in Austin, Texas in March, 2011. We are also planning on a East Coast tour of Boston, MA and New York, NY farmers’ markets in summer 2011. mytweetmark and homecookme products are ready for use, @ $30/month subscriptions, to help small businesses with social media in United States.
Company:
mytweetmark was founded in January 2010 by CEO/Founder, Bilal Ahmed. Social media advertising and spending is on the rise. mytweetmark utilizes advanced twitter techniques to market local businesses with tweets. Promote your local food business and farmers’ market with homecookme. We have proven growth in Northern California; signed up local businesses in over 130 farmers’ markets. We are now looking to grow and sign up businesses all over United States.
This week we’re featuring Bushi-go in our Startup Spotlight series.
The Pitch:
Our company is a mobile gaming startup called “Bushi-go, Inc.” here in the SF Bay Area. We are working with building long-form entertainment products into an episodic format for delivery onto mobile devices. Up until now we have been primarily self-funded because the concept we are floating is very new for mobile gaming and as of yet untested, the publishers are still looking to the social games. On top of that, part of our mandate is to find a way to produce these high-value products quickly (8Mo dev cycle) and on a tight budget (100k or less). We have spoken with a couple of VC’s and Angel investors in the past and the key comment that has come back every time is that we are just dealing in numbers small to be interesting right now. To finish the product and prove our concept we need around $20k total, 10k is already being put up by the founders, and we have gone to Kickstarter to try and crowd-source the rest.
About Company:
Bushi-go, Inc. was founded on the idea that waiting just a little bit can be a good thing. It lets you get your entertainment fix the the kinds of bites that fit into your schedule, waiting for the kids to get out of soccer, waiting for the school-bus to drop you at the very last stop on the line. You don’t lways have the time or the inclination to burn through 15+ hours of game content in a weekend and the twitch-game action of puzzlers and matchup games just isn’t going to satisfy your love of a good story. Ten minutes a week, we can fix all that.
You’re invited to attend Orrick’s complimentary TOTAL ACCESS program focused on the entrepreneur and venture capital community. The February 16 event focuses on recent developments in the cleantech industry. Please accept or decline this invitation by Monday, February 14. Sign up online!
Topics Include:
- Latest Clean Technology Fundraising Statistics
- Overview of the Current Fundraising and Investment Environment
- Other Issues in the Current Environment
- Moderator: Mitch Zuklie, Partner and Head of Energy Industry Group, Orrick
Panelists include:
Here are some photos from our latest Founders Space Roundtable Event: How to Botch a Start-Up: Fatal Mistakes Entrepreneurs Make…
Pier 38
The Panel
Join us for the New York Roundtable, where founders gather around a table to share knowledge and work together to solve problems.
To sign up, email us at [email protected]
- Topic: VC Term Sheets: Common Terms, Common Pitfalls
- Speaker: Gerry DiFiore, Deputy Chair of the Venture Practice at Reed Smith
- Date: TBD
- Time: TBD
A Founders Space Roundtable is a monthly meeting, where founders gather around a table to share knowledge and work together to solve problems. This is not a panel of speakers, seminar or business mixer. It’s a working session focused on dealing with tough issues startups face.
Founders Space is collaborating with partners in Singapore. Our mission is to help startups grow in Asia, assist in fundraising, and connect entrepreneurs with resources around the globe.
If you are interested in funding or acceleration, please submit your business plan to our venture group or startup accelerator.
