'The Must & Must Not Haves to Get Funded' Salil Deshpande, GP at Bay October 27, 2011

We are expecting an unusually large attendance for this event. Therefore, we are also offering this event as a webinar using Go2Webinar.com for those unable to attend in person. Please note that webinar attendees may not be able to ask questions during the workshop.

Who should attend: CEOs, founders, management team members of high-tech startup companies looking to raise early stage capital from SV VCs.

About the event:
The VCs look for specific things: 1) team, 2) market, 3) IP and 4) business model. What are the must haves and must not have in these buckets?

Here are some questions that will be answered at the event:

- What kind of a team do you have to have?
- What kind of a market size do you have to have for your deal to be deemed VC-fundable?
- How important is IP defensibility? What does that mean in software and Internet services?
- What does your business/revenue model have to look like for your deal to be deemed scalable and sustainable to achieve the 10X exit that Series A VCs want to achieve?

Keynote Speaker: Salil Deshpande, GP at Bay Partners
Since 2006, he has invested approximately US$60M into 20 companies across two themes: (1) open source and enterprise software infrastructure, and (2) infrastructure and platforms around social graph APIs.

Panel Speakers: Salil Deshpande, GP at Bay Partners; Steven Goldberg, GP at Venrock, Ken Elefant, Director at Intel Capital, others TBA

Agenda: 10/27/2011
8:30am to 9:00am - Registration
9:00am to 10:00am - Keynote on the topic of "The Must & Must Not Haves to Get Funded" - Salil Deshpande, GP at Bay Partners
10:00am to 10:15am - break
10:15am to 11:15am - Q&A and Panel (3 VCs) discussion
11:15am to 11:30am - networking

NOTE: Webinar participants will receive a link to the event in email the evening before the event.

Official Website: http://www.rhpartners.com/event_execution_matrix.html