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Draper Fisher Jurvetson and VLAB present Entrepreneurs – Uncensored!
A six part speaker series highlighting the valley’s boldest entrepreneurs.
Event Description:
Each event in the series will be a case study providing meaningful advice on how to get to a meaningful startup milestone, like first paying customer or product launch. The event series will be a sequential progression of milestones in the trajectory of a startup, from product launch to exit.
Speaker Series 1 – “How I got to my first paying customer” with Max Levchin and Mike Cassidy
When
Tuesday, October 27, 2009
6:00PM to 6:30PM – Registration and Networking
6:30PM to 7:45PM – Main Event
7:45PM to 8:30PM – Networking
There is a nominal fee of $35 to attend.
Where
Silicon Valley/Bay Area (location disclosed to invitees)
Come and join us for the series and listen to Max Levchin and Mike Cassidy who have changed the industry and in the process have set a gold standard as role models for the next generation of entrepreneurs. Listen to how they managed to get their first paying customer.
This event is by invitation only.
Please fill up this form if you are interested in attending this event. We will email you an exclusive invitation for this two hour event.
Moderator
Ravi Belani, Draper Fisher Jurvetson
Speakers
Max Levchin, Founder, CEO & Chairman, Slide
Mike Cassidy, Former CEO, Ruba, Xfire, Direct Hit
Bios
Max Levchin, Founder, CEO & Chairman
Max is the CEO and visionary behind Slide, the largest social entertainment company in the world and developer of the most engaging applications on social networks. Max is also renowned as the co-founder of PayPal, an expert in combating online fraud and one of the hardest working entrepreneurs in Silicon Valley. Before starting Slide, he incubated several other start-ups, including Yelp, where he currently sits as Chairman of the Board. Max started PayPal in 1998, took the company public in 2002 and then sold it to eBay for more than $1.5 billion at the age of 26. Originally from Kiev, Ukraine (then part of the Soviet Union), Max moved to Chicago at the age of 16 and later received his Bachelor of Science degree in Computer Science from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Max sits on the board of several other companies and trains for triathlons when he’s not obsessing over Slide’s business.
Mike Cassidy, Former CEO, Ruba, Xfire, Direct Hit
Mike Cassidy has been the Co-Founder and CEO of four start-ups: Ruba, Xfire, Direct Hit, and Stylus Innovation. Visual travel guide and tour site Ruba helps travelers all over the world share their favorite places and experiences. Xfire helps gamers play online with their friends much more easily. Xfire is also an instant messenger and peer-to-peer file download system designed just for gamers. Xfire has over 10 million registered gamers in over 100 countries. Viacom/MTV acquired Xfire for $110 million. Direct Hit was a revolutionary Internet search engine whose customers included MSN, Lycos, AOL, and dozens of others. Ask Jeeves acquired Direct Hit for $500 million. Stylus Innovation’s flagship product was the award winning computer telephony software Visual Voice. Mike is on the Board of Advisors of Jazz at Lincoln Center and is on the Visiting Committee Board of the MIT Media Lab. Mike studied jazz piano at the Berklee College of Music. Mike has a BS and MS in Aerospace Engineering from MIT. He graduated from Harvard Business School.
Ravi Belani
Ravi Belani is an Associate at Draper Fisher Jurvetson, where he serves on the boards of DesiHits, Redux, LiveMedia, TinyPictures, Yield Software, and Vizu. Ravi also led the firm’s investments in Komli and Pubmatic.
Ravi is a Phi Beta Kappa and Tau Beta Pi graduate of Stanford University, holding a BS with Distinction and MS in Industrial Engineering and Engineering Management. Ravi also holds an MBA from Harvard Business School. As a Board Fellow at Harvard, Ravi served the Global Board of TiE (The Indus Entrepreneurs). Ravi is also a graduate of the Kauffman Fellows Program.
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