Monthly Meetings

Date:
Wednesday, March 7th, 2012 from 6:30pm to 9pm

Topic:
The Secrets of Unlocking Access to Venture Capital -- as a Career or for Funding

Speaker:
Ravi Belani, Venture Capitalist, Instructor at Stanford University

Meeting Summary:
In this interactive dialogue, former Product Manager-turned-VC Ravi Belani will host an off-the-record forum to answer any burning questions for Product Managers intrigued by Venture Capital as a career path or funding source. Belani will describe the psychology you need to understand of VC's to know how to best work with them, and secrets for unearthing funding or a job offer from a fund. The agenda will be shaped by the audience's burning questions -- so please come with those in hand. No questions are off-limits.

Speaker Bio:
Ravi Belani began his career in Product Management at two Kleiner Perkins-funded startups. From those roots, he went on to work as a consultant with McKinsey & Company, and a venture capitalist at Draper Fisher Jurvetson, where over the course of six years he sourced, led, and governed investments in game-changing companies like Pubmatic, Justin.TV, and Komli. Ravi now runs the Alchemist Accelerator -- the leading accelerator for Enterprise-focused Seed Startups, and teaches (with Heidi Roizen) Stanford University's survey Entrepreneurship course -- The Spirit of Entrepreneurship. Ravi holds a BS and MS in Industrial Engineering from Stanford University, and an MBA from Harvard Business School.

Location:
Network Meeting Center at the TechMart [Map]
5201 Great America Parkway, Santa Clara, California 95054
www.networkmeetingcenter.com/location

Agenda:
6:30pm - Registration/networking/refreshments
7:30pm - Presentation
9:00pm - Wrap-up/networking

Registration:
Free for SVPMA members
$30 for non-SVPMA members who register online before the day of the event
$40 for non-SVPMA members who register online or in-person on the day of the event
**Cash/check only if paying at the door

Note: Event fees are non-refundable and non-transferable. Please register before the event date to receive the $10 discount.

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