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Schedule
This site contains information from our March 2009 event. For future events, please visit innoTrek.
Program Schedule (Subject to change without notice)
Venue: Stanford Graduate School of Business (GSB)
Saturday, March 21, 2009
- 08:15 – 09:00 Registration & Networking Breakfast
- 09:00 – 10:00 Session 1: Keynote, ‘The Secret of My Success’, Serial Entrepreneur on His 4th Start-up, Mike Cassidy, CEO of travel exploration site, Ruba
- 10:00 – 10:30 Session 2: ’Art of the Pitch‘, Bill Reichert, Managing Director, Garage Technology Ventures
- 10:30 – 12:00 Session 3: ‘Learn from the Pros‘ Workshop with Founders & CEOs of recently funded start-ups! Learn how they did it!
Breakout sessions in Arbuckle Lower Lounge
- Peter Pham, CEO, BillShrink ($8M in 10/2008)
- Murli Thirumale, CEO, Ocarina Networks ($20M in 2/2009)
- Sumon Sadhu, CEO, Snaptalent (funded by Y Combinator)
- John Zimmer, CEO, Zimride (funded by Facebook fbFund)
- Simon Tisminezky, CEO & Founder, SpeedDate ($6M in 8/2008)
- Steen Anderson, Co-Founder & VP Account Director, 5th Finger ($7M in 6/2008)
- Phil Libin, CEO, Evernote ($4.5M in 12/2008)
- 12:00 – 01:00 Networking Lunch (Arbuckle Lower Lounge)
- 01:00 – 02:00 Session 4: ’Pros present their Pitches‘ – each Mentor presents his or her elevator pitch
- 02:00 – 03:00 Session 5: ‘Breakthrough Power Sources’, Lonnie ’Super Soaker’ Johnson, Founder & President, Johnson ElectroMechanical Systems
- 03:00 – 03:15 Break
- 03:15 – 04:45 Session 6: ‘Cleantech one-on-one’, Dan Verser, Co-Founder, ZeaChem
- 04:45 – 06:00 Session 7: ’Start-Up Law 101: Protecting Intellectual Property and Legal Strategy‘, Laura Peter, Principal, Global General Counsel; Andre Gharakhanian, Founder, SiliconLegalStrategy; Eric Jensen, Partner, Cooley Godward Kronish
- 06:00 – 07:30 Networking Dinner (Arbuckle Lower Lounge)
Sunday, March 22, 2009
- 08:15 – 09:00 Networking Breakfast
- 09:00 – 10:00 Session 8: Keynote, ‘What I Wish I Knew When I Was 20‘, Tina Seelig, Executive Director, STVP
- 10:00 – 11:00 Session 9: ’Online Customer Acquisition and Startup Metrics’, Dave McClure, Startup Coach, Angel Investor & Eric Ries, Venture Advisor, KPCB
- 11:00 – 12:00 Session 10: ‘The Future of Social Networks: What They’ll Look Like, Where the Revenue Will Come From’ Panel with Jen Weedn, Director Biz Dev, MySpace, Michael Trigg, VP Marketing, Hi5, Josh Elman, Platform Program Manager, Facebook, moderated by Christine Comaford, Mighty Ventures
- 12:00 – 01:00 Networking Lunch (Arbuckle Lower Lounge)
- 01:00 – 02:00 Session 11: Panel moderated by Dave McClure, participants Jason Oberfest, SVP Biz Dev, MySpace, Michael Trigg, VP Marketing, Hi5, and Josh Elman, Platform Program Manager, Facebook
- 02:00 – 03:00 Session 12: ‘How to run a scrappy startup’, Rashmi Sinha, Founder & CEO, Slideshare
- 03:00 – 03:45 Session 13: ‘Crowdsourcing’, Yumio Saneyoshi, VP of Products, FixYa
- 03:45 – 04:15 Session 14: Shortlisted pitches to present
- 04:15 – 05:15 Session 15: ’How to Run your Business on a Shoe String‘, Phil Libin, CEO, Evernote
- 05:15 – 06:30 Networking Happy Hour / Dinner (Arbuckle Lower Lounge)
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