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| Event Name | FountainBlue's High Tech Entrepreneurs' Forum | |
| Date | Monday December 11, 2006 | |
| Time | 11:30AM to 1:30PM | |
| City | Palo Alto | |
| Event Type | Speaker / Panel / Round Table | |
| Event Area | Management / Strategy / Planning | |
| Hosted By | FountainBlue | |
| Description | FountainBlue's High Tech Entrepreneurs' Forum is a networking, education and support group for high-tech entrepreneurs in the Silicon Valley. This monthly lunch meeting is designed to share successes and challenges in a safe environment, focused on helping fellow members run and grow their entrepreneurial ventures. Each month, we focus on a different theme of interest to entrepreneurs and feature a guest facilitator with deep experience helping entrepreneurs. The SV High Tech Entrepreneurs' Forum is open to high tech entrepreneurs & their teams (such as staff members, advisers, board members or investors) with a wide range of entrepreneurial experience, at various stages of growing or supporting a new or existing entrepreneurial venture. Note that this event is for entrepreneurs only, no service providers please. For more information about the High Tech Entrepreneurs' Forum, visit http://www.fountainblue.biz/entrepreneurevents/hightechentrepren eurs.html and for notes from previous discussions, visit http://www.fountainblue.biz/resources/entrepreneursnotes.html. Theme and Guest Facilitators: The theme for this month is Growing the Business Taking Sales to the Next Level with Antony Awaida from StartLeap Corporation. Antony will share his deep experience building sales and channels for large established organizations like Oracle and for a series of small start-ups including his own. | |
| Cost | Free or $10 for other entrepreneurs, $20 at the door | |
| Ticket URL | http://www.acteva.com/booking.cfm?bevaid=1045 81 | |
| Other ticket Information | http://www.fountainblue.biz/events/entreprene ursforum.html | |
| Organization Description | FountainBlue Consulting focuses on connecting entrepreneurs with C-Level executives and funders to double the likelihood of success of entrepreneurial ventures in half the time through coaching, training and networking. FountainBlue serves entrepreneurs by: - Providing coaching and training services focused on producing immediate results specifically in the areas of client acquisition and funding; - Providing strategy, marketing and project management consulting services to ensure vision alignment and effective execution; - Connecting entrepreneurs to experienced C- Level executives and service providers, including funders. If you are an entrepreneur interested in finding out more information, please e-mail us at entrepreneurs@FountainBlue.biz. FountainBlue serves C-Level executives by: - Creating and nurturing a high-caliber, high-integrity network of C-Level executives committed to supporting each other personally and professionally; - Presenting lunchtime talks on topics of interest to executives, including effective management practices, business and technology trends, and also business plan review competitions; - Providing access to entrepreneurial management opportunities; - Supporting executives in transition. If you are a C-Level executive interested in finding out more about the group, send an e-mail to C-LevelExecs@FountainBlue.biz. FountainBlue serves entrepreneurial funders and service providers by: - Connecting them with potential customers including successful executives and high- potential entrepreneurial organizations. If you are providing services to entrepreneurs and executives, and would like to partner with us, send an e-mail to info@FountainBlue.biz. | |
| Event Contact Info | Linda Holroyd, Linda.Holroyd@FountainBlue.biz | |
| Venue | Kirkpatrick & Lockhart | |
| Venue Address | 630 Hansen Way Palo Alto, CA, 94304 | |
| Contact Phone | 650-996-3987 | |
| Event Name | SDForum MARKETING SIG: Twelve Business Books in One Hour for the Busy CEO | |
| Date | Monday December 11, 2006 | |
| Time | 6:30PM to 8:45PM | |
| City | East Palo Alto | |
| Event Type | Speaker / Panel / Round Table | |
| Event Area | Marketing | |
| Hosted By | Software Development Forum | |
| Description | Spend an hour and leave with a summary of key marketing insights and some rules of thumb for successful innovation in Silicon Valley. You might even identify one or two books that you haven't read that will be worth your time over the Christmas holidays. We will cover ten books that form the basis for conventional wisdom on marketing in Silicon Valley. They provide the terms, the metaphors, and the parables--in short the language--that successful startups use to develop their plans and monitor their execution. Some of these books are old, but still provide succinct guidelines for new product introduction and sales. Authors like Clayton Christensen, Geoffrey Moore, Peter Drucker, and William Davidow provide a strategic framework for high technology marketing; they explain how the world works. Steve Blank's "Four Steps to the Epiphany", Doug Hall's "Jumpstart Your Business Brain", Michael Gerber's "E-Myths Revisted" and the "Blue Ocean Strategy" by W. Chan Kim and Renee Mauborgne offer valuable perspectives on business; they explain how startup teams need to view the world. Finally, Gerald Weinberg in "Secrets of Consulting", Peter Cialdini in "Influence", and Al Ries and Jack Trout in "The 22 Immutable Laws of Marketing" offer useful insights and rules of thumb for how to influence and act as a change agent for prospects. Presenter Sean Murphy has taken an entrepreneurial approach to life since he could drive. He has served as an advisor to dozens of startups, helping them explore new options and bring their businesses to new levels. His firm, SKMurphy Inc., focuses on early customers and early revenue for software startups, helping engineers to understand business development. Prior to SKMurphy, Sean worked in a variety of roles--software engineering, engineering management, application engineering, business development, product marketing, and customer support--at companies like Cisco Systems, 3Com, AMD, MMC Networks, Escalade, and VLSI Technology. Sean holds a BS in Mathematical Sciences and an MS in Engineering-Economic Systems from Stanford University. His blog is http://www.skmurphy.com/blog/ EVENT LOGISTICS Location DLA Piper Rudnick Gray Cary LLP 2000 University Ave.(University Circle) East Palo Alto, CA 94303 Tel: 650.833.2000 Note: These are the tall buildings on the corner of University Avenue and Woodland Avenue on the west side of Hwy. 101. They are in the University Circle complex. Directions Agenda 6:30 - 7:00 p.m. Registration / Networking / Refreshments 7:00 - 7:15 p.m. Announcements and Introductions 7:15 - 8:30 p.m. Presentation and Discussion 8:30 - 8:45 p.m. Wrap-up / Networking Cost $15 at the door for non-SDForum members No charge for SDForum members No registration required | |
| Cost | FREE for Forum members, $15 for non-members | |
| Other ticket Information | http://www.sdforum.org/ | |
| Organization Description | SDForum is the leading Silicon Valley not-for- profit organization providing an unbiased source of information, insight, and expertise to the technology community for the past 20 years. Each month SDForum reaches 1200 software professionals through more than 20 events that promote new technologies, businesses and practices that advance the industry. For more information on SDForum's memberships and programs, check out our website at www.sdforum.org. | |
| Event Contact Info | Marketing SIG Chairs, sdforum_marketingsig-owner@yahoogroups.com | |
| Venue | DLA Piper Rudnick Gray Cary LLP | |
| Venue Address | 2000 University Avenue East Palo Alto, CA, 94303 | |
| Contact Phone | - | |
| Event Name | Be In Business For Yourself | |
| Date | Monday December 11, 2006 | |
| Time | 7:00PM to 9:00PM | |
| City | Santa Clara | |
| Event Type | Seminar / Workshop / Class | |
| Event Area | Investment / Finance / Money | |
| Hosted By | World Leadership Group | |
| Description | Are you getting paid what you are worth? We can help! You are invited to attend a Free Seminar hosted by Global Equity Lending & Global Realty Marketing. Are you a homeowner? Interested in lowering your mortgage? Through our seminar, "Harness the Power of Your Mortgage" learn how you could choose to: Significantly lower your monthly mortgage payment, free up cash to pay off credit cards, auto loans, while at the same time freeing up money to save! Discover how to improve your quality of life by taking control of your financial future. This seminar will include a World Leadership Group Business Opportunity Presentation that can show your our "no experience required" method of earning a second income in the real estate and mortgage industries. Seating is limited please call Pilar | |
| Cost | 0 | |
| Other ticket Information | http://www.PilarTobias.com | |
| Organization Description | Be In Business For Yourself World Leadership Group offers you an opportunity to be in business for yourself but not by yourself. We are looking for people from all walks of life that have the motivation and desire to be their own boss and take control of their own financial future. WLG is like no other business on earth! WLG, A Company Built by Entrepreneurs for Entrepreneurs. We have one of the most powerful compensation and promotion plans in marketing today. We offer a unique blend of Infinity Overrides, Generational Overrides, and Bonus Pools that give you many exciting ways to make money with WLG.
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| Event Contact Info | Pilar Tobias, PilarTobias@wlgdirect.com | |
| Venue | Business Opportunity Presentation | |
| Venue Address | 2700 Augustine Dr #199 Santa Clara, CA, 95054 | |
| Contact Phone | 408-977-3087 | |
