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From Startup To IPO

Join us on November 14th to get the latest insights into the success story of RingCentral and its founder and CEO, Vlad Shmunis.

Vlad went all the way from founding a startup, bringing in on board some of the best venture funds in the Valley (Sequoia & Khosla Ventures), and taking RingCentral to a $100M IPO just last month.

Don't miss this exciting story and an opportunity to learn from the first-hand experience straight from the founder! Learn his business secrets and ask him questions. Hang out and share drinks and snacks with Vlad as well as a group of like-minded entrepreneurs, investors, executives and other professionals - members of AmBAR (www.ambarclub.org) and TEC Club (www.tecglobal.org).

Also, young startups, if you wish to pitch to the audience of angels and VCs, apply now to participate in a short DEMO night. The number of companies is limited! If you interested to present your startup at future Pitch events, please apply at http://www.tecglobal.org/PitchingApp

WHEN : Thursday, November 14, 2013, 6:30-9:00pm
WHERE: WilmerHale, 950 Page Mill Road, Palo Alto, 94304

Details and registration : http://tec20131411.eventbrite.com/

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Partners Event: Videos from SVOD Summer'13

More videos at http://www.svod.org/content/svod2013-summer-video

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"Myself, Inc." Workshop Series for Entrepreneurs

 

 Myself, Inc

Offered by TEC, AMBAR and The Shirman Group

 

Myself, Inc.  

Join us for this series of actionable, interactive, hands-on workshops taught by experts in the field. 

Hone your leadership and management skills and take charge of your career and your company’s success.  Discover how to develop a personal brand, build and leverage relationships on-line and off, and lead your team and company with confidence.    You will leave these hands-on workshops with specific ideas and best practices to put into action immediately. 

Dates and Topics

  • Thursday, April 18 – Build Your Personal Brand
  • Thursday, April 25 – Presentations that Get What You Want From Decision Makers
  • Thursday, May 2 – Effective Negotiation Strategies
  • Thursday, May 9 – Raising Your Game as a Leader

Eventbrite - "Myself, Inc." #4 : Raising Your Game as a Leader

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Israeli Startup Demo Day

Join TEC and JHTC celebrating Israel's birthday Silicon Valley style, by checking out a sampling of innovative Israeli startups.

This unique event will bring together entrepreneurs, venture capitalists, angel investors, potential partners and employees for a night of exceptional networking opportunities.

There will be six early stage startup companies present.  They will each give brief pitches and then be available at individual tables for further discussions and demos.

What better way to celebrate the birth of Israel as a nation than to witness the birth of these high tech Israeli companies.

WHEN : Tuesday, April 9, 6:30p.m
WHERE: Fenwick & West, 801 California St., Mountain View, CA (Note a new address!)

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TEC Pitch March 21 - early stage companies


Mark your calendars and join us on March  21 (Thursday) in Palo Alto for our famous TEC Pitch! 

The event includes a panel of venture capitalists, 10 min pitches from 8 pre-selected companies and extensive networking.

If you interested to present your startup at future Pitch events, please apply at http://www.tecglobal.org/PitchingApp

WHEN : Thursday, March 21,2013, 6:00-9:00pm
WHERE: WilmerHale, 950 Page Mill Road, Palo Alto, 94304

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Guy Kawasaki: ‘How to Publish a Book’

By Lesya Pishchevskaya
www.linkedin.com/in/lesyap
www.facebook.com/lesyap

On January 24, 2012 The Entrepreneur’s Club hosted Guy Kawasaki at the WilmerHale Headquarters in Palo Alto, California. Kawasaki shared advice from his new book, “APE: Author, Publisher, Entrepreneur - How to Publish a Book”.  Abundant with useful advice and ingenious remarks, Kawasaki’s speech was acclaimed by the crowd of Silicon Valley professionals.

Kawasaki opened up by sharing his impressive bio and then explained why Google+ was the “Macintosh of social media”. Kawasaki went on to state that many speakers in Silicon Valley weren’t skilled in public speaking and had two “fail flaws“ -  “they sucked as speakers” and “went long.”

Kawasaki presented an example of what a proper speech should encompass, breaking it down into 10 distinct parts.

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TEC Pitch - mobile app, cloud services, medical devices

Mark your calendars and join us on February  21 (Thursday) in Palo Alto for our famous TEC Pitch! 

The event includes a panel of venture capitalists, 10 min pitches from 8 pre-selected companies and extensive networking.

If you interested to present your startup at future Pitch events, please apply at http://www.tecglobal.org/PitchingApp

WHEN : Thursday, February 21,2013, 6:00-9:00pm
WHERE: WilmerHale, 950 Page Mill Road, Palo Alto, 94304

Agenda :

6:00pm – 6:30pm  - Registration and networking with light food and drinks
6:30pm – 8:30pm – Startup presentations
8:30pm – 9:30pm – Networking 

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TEC World Leaders Series with Guy Kawasaki

 

Dear Friends:

Mark your calendars and join us on Thursday, January 24th in Palo Alto for an exciting evening with Guy Kawasaki – a bestselling author of 10 books on entrepreneurship, a Silicon Valley venture capitalist, a legendary Apple Fellow, and now an Android Fan.

TEC World Leaders Series are exciting and enlightening keynotes or fireside chats with the gurus of the technology world. Among our speakers were: Pitch Johnson with the stories from the Silicon Valley tranches, Steve Blankwith manual for startups, Tim Draper on how to become a venture capitalist, Marten Mickos with his life story and vision on how to build successful businesses, and Charles Giancarlo on how to buy Skype , turn it around and make $5B of profit in less than two years.

Agenda:

  • 6:00pm – 7:00pm     Registration and Reception
  • 7:00pm-8:15pm       Fireside Chat with Guy Kawasaki
  • 8:15pm-9:00pm       Networking

When: January 24, 2012, Thursday
Time: 6:00pm – 9:00pm
Where: WilmerHale, 950 Page Mill Road Palo Alto, CA 94304 USA

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TEC Event: Software Defined Networks (SDN) and OpenFlow for Fun and Profit(Dec 13,2012, Palo Alto)

On July 23, 2012, VMware bought Nicira for $1.26B validating this revolution in Networking. The folowing week, Oracle acquired Xsigo. Just recently Cisco acquired vCider. Upstarts claim they will commoditize the expensive networking gear sold by the incumbents, with standards like Software Defined Networking (SDN), and OpenFlow (OF).

Google and Facebook already deploy their own scaled-up network hardware and software instead of proprietary offerings of incumbent networking players. Many entrepreneurs are betting on SDN and OpenFlow to change the face of networking, but will they succeed?

TEC invited top industry experts Matt Palmer and Roy Chua (partners at Wiretap Ventures and co-curators at SDN Central) to discuss SDN technology, business and new opportunity for startups.

Agenda:

  • 6:00-6:30 Registration & Networking
  • 6:30-8:00 Keynote
  • 8:00-8:30 Startup pitches

Startup Pitch:

Please submit your application at http://www.tecglobal.org/PitchingApp 

Confirmed Investors (to be updated ):

  • Anna Dvornikova, TEC Ventures
  • Anis Uzzaman, Fenox Venture Capital
  • Brian Wilcove, Sofinnova Ventures
  • Louis Schreier, Deutsche Telekom
  • Ammar Hanafi , Alloys Ventures
  • Asmeet Sidana, Foundation Capital

 

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TEC Event: The Opportunity of the Cloud

TEC is proud to host a keynote by Tom Mornini, co-founder and CTO (retired ;-) of Engine Yard, the leading cloud platform (PaaS) for Ruby on Rails and PHP.

Having lived in the cloud for seven years, before it was even called "the cloud," Tom would like to share his thoughts on its implications for entrepreneurs. The good news is that massive opportunity awaits. The challenge is that it's not business as usual.

Tom Mornini co-founded Engine Yard, Inc., spent 6 years as CTO and retains a board seat. Engine Yard hosts web applications in the cloud for companies like Audi, MasterCard, MTV, Estee Lauder and Butterball.

Tom became enthralled with accounting at EngineYard, but also saw the pain of reports, spreadsheets and manual data entry that finance and developers had to go through to close the books every month. There had to be a better way...which led him to co-found Boocx, Inc. - the world's first machine scale double-entry accounting engine.

Tom lives in San Francisco with his wife Elizabeth and son John. He is an Audiophile, loves Jamaican Ska music and enjoys the occasional walks on the beach. ;-)

When: November 15, 2012, Thursday
Time: 6:00pm – 9:00pm
Where: WilmerHale, 950 Page Mill Rd, Palo Alto, CA 94304

Complimentary appetizers, beer, wine and soft drinks will be served.


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