SDForum: Crafting the Financial Roadmap of Your Startup April 19, 2005

Software Development Forum (SDForum) presents:

SDForum: Crafting the Financial Roadmap of Your Startup

Tue, Apr 19, 8:30am-3:00pm, San Jose

MORE INFO: http://www.sdforum.org/financialroadmap

As an entrepreneur, you must steer your start-up on the financial path to success. To do so, you need to develop an effective financial roadmap and thoroughly understand how it will unfold over the next 5 years. This roadmap should provide you with a clear vision of your objectives and milestones to a) help you decide whether your project is financially feasible, b) set a common direction for your management team, and c) enable investors and lenders to assess the desirability of funding your venture.

This is a technical workshop designed for start-up entrepreneurs who are in the process of developing their business plan and seeking angel and/or VC funding. In this workshop, you will learn:
* a systematic methodology for developing a robust financial plan
* how to build a credible revenue model
* rules for building a flexible expense model
* techniques for preserving scalability and data integrity as you make subsequent updates to the plan
* ways to validate your model using publicly available data
* how to project the ownership of the founders, employees, and investors, and the return on investment over the life of the plan
* various approaches to deriving valuation data from the financial plan
* how to Debug your financial planning spreadsheet

You will also receive a printout of the financial model.

BONUS SEGMENT 1 Sunita Patel, Senior Vice President with Comerica Bank, will discuss debt financing alternatives for early stage companies including traditional banking, technology banking and non-banking products.

BONUS SEGMENT 2 Paul Leboffe, Partner with the law firm of Davis Wright Tremaine LLP, will discuss best practices for building a VC friendly company.

PLUS! A panel of investors will share their insights on how they view and evaluate the financial planning information they receive from entrepreneurs and answer questions from the audience.

DATE & TIME:
Tuesday, April 19
8:30am-3:00pm

LOCATION:
SDForum Offices
111 W. Saint John, Suite 200
San Jose, CA, 95113
http://www.sdforum.org/p/l1.asp?SID=1&PID=318

COST & REGISTRATION:
$35 SDForum Members, $50 Non-members, at the door add $10 to member and non-member prices.
http://www.sdforum.org/financialroadmap

MORE INFO:
Website: http://www.sdforum.org/financialroadmap
Email: [email protected]
Phone: 408-494-8378

About Software Development Forum (SDForum):
SDForum is the leading Silicon Valley software organization with deep ties to entrepreneurs, developers, venture capitalists, industry experts and major technology companies. With a 10,000-person reach, 2000 individual members and 20-30 events each month, SDForum is the single best source of information, education and connection for people seeking to build a business and career in Silicon Valley.