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Category: Events (Page 20 of 30)
Captain Hoff is speaking about the promise and perils of ICOs. Join us along with leading cryptocurrency and blockchain experts.
Bitcions and blockchain are the new internet technology with the potential to transform the financial industry and disrupt markets around the world.
See you at the ICO Funding Summit: Bitcoins, Blockchain, Digital Currency and FinTech.
Founders Space invites you and your friends to our Holiday Party with plenty of startups, VCs, angel investors, service providers and creative types!
Register Now (while tickets last)
It will be a great events with lavish food, unlimited drinks, demo tables and plenty of engaging people. We’ll also have the Make Elephants Fly book signing. This year it will be our best yet, with our partners at 1 Piece Work and Angel Launch.
- What are the cardinal rules for pitching VCs?
- What do you say to hook them?
- More importantly, what don’t you say?
- What are the things that are sure to kill a deal?
- How do you negotiate with a VC?
- When do you push hard, and when do you back off?
- How can you get VCs to give you a term sheet on the day you want it?
- How do you create a bidding war?
Steve Hoffman (Captain Hoff) will go over all this and more. Hoffman is an angel investor, LP in August Capital, and CEO of Founders Space. He invests in startups and works with hundreds of investors worldwide. Hoffman is also the author of the new book “Making Elephants Fly: the Process of Radical Innovation.”
It’s a no-brainer: You gain from understanding your brain.
So you can afford to skip the gym, yoga and Netflix one time and instead on Monday, Nov 20 pamper the most deserving organ in your body by taking it out to this Double Play where a significant advance in Evolutionary Psychology meets a highly-regarded book – Make Elephants Fly – The Process of Radical Innovation.
Asia Society and the Bay Area Council are organizing a conference that will look at the trends and issues in the emerging narratives around Chinese innovation and China’s rise as a significant source of foreign direct investment into the U.S. Building on both organizations’ growing portfolio of reports and dialogues on these issues, the conference will serve as the backdrop for the release of two reports: the first of which will explore China’s drive for innovation and the second report which will provide a comprehensive look at China’s investment into California.
South Bay Events:
Date: November 10th, 2017
Time: 10:00am-2:00pm
Location: Central Computers 3777 Stevens Creek Boulevard, Santa Clara, CA
Topic: How to Build Blockchain Apps
Insight: Blockchain is everywhere in the news these days, but how do you actually develop your very own Blockchain app? Come to Galvanize to learn how to develop Blockchain apps with the Open Source Hyperledger Composer Playground web sandbox and the Hyperledger Fabric. And of course, Hyperledger, hosted by the Linux Foundation, is an open source collaborative effort created to advance cross-industry blockchain technologies. We will develop a Perishable Goods Network, an Auto Dealer Network and time permitting, a Decentralized Energy Network that all will run on your laptop.
Link: http://ibm.biz/blockchain11_10_2017
Date: November 15th, 2017
Time: 6:00-8:30pm
Location: Central Computers 3777 Stevens Creek Boulevard, Santa Clara, CA
Topic: Learn How to Build Your First Chatbot – Technical Hands-on Workshop
Insight: In this technical hands-on workshop you will learn how to build your first chatbot and then integrate it with Slack. In ths session you will learn how to: train your chatbot to reply to questions using intents, entities, dialog, customize your chatbot to reply to more questions, and integrate your chatbot with Slack using OpenWhisk.
Link: http://ibm.biz/chatbot11_15_2017
Join us for Founders Space Pitch Day & Mixer in San Francisco.
Judging the startups will be top VCs, Angels & Corporate Investors.
There will be incredible startup pitches, investors, networking, food and drinks! We’ll also be celebrating the launch of Captain Hoff’s new book: Make Elephants Fly!
“I’ll be speaking passionately about what it takes create a startup from scratch that can go all the way to IPO!” – Captain Hoff
You have an idea and start a startup wanting to change the world for the better. While exciting, startups are also challenging. You face problems in funding, product-market fit, talent acquisition, and scale-up.
The age of autonomous driving vehicles is quickly approaching and mobility as we know now will be transformed permanently. Artificial intelligence, powerful sensors and in-vehicle computation are the key enablers of this development. The future is exciting. The details are yet to be worked out.
Please join CHAIN for a panel discussion on the progress of these fronts of autonomous driving and how they will shape the future of mobility.
Date and time: Oct. 24 (Tuesday), 6:30pm-8:30pm (PDT)
Venue: Fenwick & West LLP, 801 California Street, Mountain View, CA 94041
