Lunch

12:00pm-2:00pm

Lunch with Asa Dotzler, Director, Product Management, Mozilla Corp, How to Build International Communities

2:30pm– 4:30pm

Sergey Burkov, Angel investor, Advisor to Start-Ups, Case Study

4:30pm–6:00pm

Nikolai Mitushin, ABRT Fund and Vera Shokina, Runa Capital, Participant case studies

Session 1 - 3

1:00 pm - 2:00 pm

With Daniel Zimmerman and Anna Otkina, SNR Denton

Session 3

2:00pm-4:00pm

Bill Tai, Partner, Charles River Ventures

Who is Getting Funded These Days? How to Get Ready to Raise a Round from Silicon Valley VCs?

Session 4

4:00pm-6:00pm

Betty Kayton, Experienced Startup CFO

Financial Planning and Model Overview

Session 1

10:00am-12:00pm

Esther Dyson

Attracting and Retaining Co-Founders, Advisors, and Team

Lunch

12:00pm-12:30pm

Networking Lunch

Session 2

12:30am–2:30pm

Angelika Blendstrup, International Exec Communication Coach

Pitching VCs and Elevator Pitch

Session 3

2:30pm–4:30pm

Ilya Strebulaev, Professor of Finance, Stanford Graduate School of Business

Company Valuations: Fundraising Scenarios

Session 2

10:00am–12:00pm

Andrew Filev, CEO, Wrike

Team and Culture Case Study

Lunch

12:00pm-2:00pm

Lunch with Philipp Korn of TriNet and Laurie Lumenti of Silicon Valley Bank

How to Fit In and Take Advantage of your Partners and Network is Silicon Valley

Session 3

2:00pm-4:00pm

Sondra Card, Executive Recruiter, HR Director for Mayfield

Startup Organizational Structure, Compensation and Hiring

Session 4

4:00pm – 6:00pm

Phil Libin, CEO, Evernote

Team and Culture, Evernote Case Study

Session 5

7:00pm-9:00pm

Vivek Mehra, General Partner, August Capital, and Alex Miroshnichenko, Virsto Software

Session 1

9:00am-11:00am

Brian Jacobs, General Partner, Emergence Capital Partners

VIP Case Study: What’s on VC’s Mind While You Pitch

Session 2

12:00pm-2:00pm

Mark Iwanovski, General Partner, Trident Capital

Lesson Learned, Why startups fail?

Session 3

2:00pm – 4:00pm

Marylene Delbourg-Delphis, Serial Entrepreneur, Professional CEO, Coach

Master Class: Presenting to VCs (based on real-time work with 3 VIP companies within the group)

Session 4

4:30pm-6:00pm

Visiting Google Headquarters

Session 3

2:00pm-4:00pm

Steve Blank, Serial Entrepreneur; Founder, Epiphany, Lecturer, Stanford University, Graduate School of Engineering, Four Steps to Epiphany

Session 5

5:00pm – 7:00pm

Jim Smith, General Partner, Mohr Davidow Ventures 

MDV Investment Philosophy and Start Up Selection Process: Who is Getting Funded and What Silicon Valley Venture Capitalists are Looking For