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Taught by Paul Matteucci (US Venture Partners & Founder @ Feeding 10 Billion) w/ rockstar food investors behind Brightfarms, Popchips & Nomiku.
Sat, Jan 31, 2015 @ 09:00 AM   $400   Grind, 1412 Broadway
 
     
 
 
              

  
 
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<P STYLE="line-height: 1.15; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" DIR="ltr"><SPAN STYLE="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; color: #333333; font-size: small;"><SPAN STYLE="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;">Taught by <A HREF="http://www.usvp.com/" TARGET="_blank" REL="nofollow">US Venture Partners</A> Partner and <A HREF="http://www.feeding10billion.com/" REL="nofollow">Feeding 10 Billion</A> Founder Paul Matteucci, <SPAN STYLE="line-height: 17.25px; white-space: pre-wrap;">t</SPAN></SPAN><SPAN STYLE="line-height: 1.15; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;">his intimate, hands-on bootcamp will demystify the process of raising venture capital and give you the tools to go out and raise money with confidence. </SPAN></SPAN></P>
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<P STYLE="line-height: 1.15; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" DIR="ltr"><SPAN STYLE="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; color: #333333; font-size: small;"><SPAN STYLE="line-height: 1.15; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;">A leading <A HREF="http://www.cnbc.com/id/102241146#." REL="nofollow">Silicon Valley investor and advocate for food system innovation</A>, </SPAN></SPAN><SPAN STYLE="color: #333333; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small; line-height: 19.5px; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;">Paul is working with the <SPAN STYLE="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 20.7999992370605px; text-align: justify;">State of California and Stone Barns to develop programs for food entrepreneurs.</SPAN> He has been on both sides of the table numerous times as a founding entrepreneur and investor, and now he wants to help you succeed. </SPAN></P>
<P><SPAN ID="docs-internal-guid-728c2dc6-b1e3-2a3b-742b-aa32cb7b552d" STYLE="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; color: #333333; font-size: small;"><SPAN STYLE="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;">Through case studies and hands-on exercises, you </SPAN><SPAN STYLE="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">will learn the ins and outs of fundraising financials, market sizing, v<SPAN STYLE="color: #333333;">aluation, term sheets and crafting your pitch. </SPAN></SPAN></SPAN><SPAN STYLE="color: #333333;"><SPAN STYLE="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small; line-height: 14.9499998092651px; white-space: pre-wrap;">You willunderstand what motivates investors and what scares them. You will leave with a complete picture of how venture capitalists make money and why they behave the way they do. And y</SPAN><SPAN STYLE="white-space: pre-wrap; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small; line-height: 1.6em;">ou'll also get fundraising tips and tricks from some of the industries top entrepreneurs and investors.</SPAN></SPAN></P>
<P><SPAN STYLE="color: #333333; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><SPAN STYLE="white-space: pre-wrap;">Space is limited to around 30 people, so snag your spot today!</SPAN></SPAN></P>
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<P STYLE="line-height: 1.15; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" DIR="ltr"><SPAN STYLE="font-size: small; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; color: #333333;">Understand key fundraising concepts</SPAN></P>
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<P><SPAN STYLE="color: #333333;"><STRONG>ONLINE COURSE</STRONG>:</SPAN></P>
<P><SPAN STYLE="color: #333333;">The course will also be available online starting in early March. Pre-register <SPAN STYLE="color: #800000;"><A HREF="http://www.ed.foodtechconnect.com/course/food-startup-venture-fundraising-bootcamp/" REL="nofollow"><SPAN STYLE="color: #800000;">here</SPAN></A></SPAN> and get 50% off.</SPAN></P>
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<DIV><SPAN STYLE="color: #333333; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><STRONG><SPAN STYLE="white-space: pre-wrap;">ABOUT YOUR INSTRUCTOR:</SPAN></STRONG></SPAN></DIV>
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<P><SPAN STYLE="color: #333333; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><STRONG><SPAN STYLE="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><IMG STYLE="float: left; margin-left: 10px; margin-right: 10px;" TITLE="Paul Matteucci" SRC="https://cdn.evbuc.com/eventlogos/9177411/paulm.png" ALT=""></SPAN></STRONG></SPAN></P>
<P STYLE="line-height: 1.15; margin-top: 12pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; text-align: justify;" DIR="ltr"><SPAN STYLE="font-size: small; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; color: #333333; background-color: transparent;">Paul Matteucci is a venture capitalist, entrepreneur, corporate executive, fly fisherman and home cook. He is passionate about building companies, creating jobs with opportunity, recreating the global food system, building the world's first privately-funded national park, cooking, baseball, mystery novels and his family. </SPAN></P>
<P><SPAN STYLE="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small; color: #333333;"><SPAN STYLE="text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;"><STRONG>Current Work:</STRONG> Paul is an Operating Partner at </SPAN><SPAN STYLE="color: #800000;"><A STYLE="text-decoration: none;" HREF="http://www.usvp.com" TARGET="_blank" REL="nofollow"><SPAN STYLE="color: #800000; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;">U.S. Venture Partners</SPAN></A></SPAN><SPAN STYLE="text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;">, one of the true pioneers of venture capital, which have helped make Silicon Valley a leader in IT technology and health care innovation. At the same time, he is the Founder of </SPAN><SPAN STYLE="color: #800000;"><A STYLE="text-decoration: none;" HREF="http://www.feeding10billion.com" TARGET="_blank" REL="nofollow"><SPAN STYLE="color: #800000; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;">Feeding 10 Billion</SPAN></A></SPAN><SPAN STYLE="text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;"> (</SPAN><SPAN STYLE="text-align: justify; font-style: italic; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;">not affiliated with USVP)</SPAN><SPAN STYLE="text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;">, a non-profit initiative focused on building a robust eco-system of information and people to help entrepreneurs create their food-system businesses. </SPAN></SPAN></P>
<P STYLE="line-height: 1.15; margin-top: 12pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; text-align: justify;" DIR="ltr"><SPAN STYLE="font-size: small; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; color: #333333; background-color: transparent;">With a passion for creating jobs and mentoring startup teams, Paul has helped a generation of entrepreneurs learn how to execute during difficult times. In fact, he notes, the best of them learn to use challenges as a catalyst for innovation, and for creating cultures that are accountable, cash-efficient, resilient and focused.</SPAN></P>
<P STYLE="line-height: 1.15; margin-top: 12pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; text-align: justify;" DIR="ltr"><SPAN STYLE="font-size: small; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; color: #333333; background-color: transparent;">At USVP, Paul has led or co-led investments in Livefyre, 3Ware (sold to AMCC), Total Beauty, Trovix (sold to Monster), PlaceIQ, Swoop, and others. He has also served on the boards of distillery, 4info, Homestead (sold to Intuit) and Jeda Networks. Paul's current interests on the technology landscape include: Internet services, mobile computing, audience measurement and aggregation, data storage and data analytics.</SPAN></P>
<P><SPAN STYLE="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><SPAN STYLE="color: #333333;"><SPAN STYLE="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;">At Feeding 10 Billion, Paul advises start-ups and works with public and private institutions to develop programs for entrepreneurs, who are creating what he calls </SPAN><SPAN STYLE="font-style: italic; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;">Food System 6.0. </SPAN></SPAN><SPAN STYLE="line-height: 1.6em; text-align: justify;">Feeding 10 Billion is currently leading role in developing programs for the State of California and the Stone Barns Initiative in New York.</SPAN></SPAN></P>
<P STYLE="margin-top: 12.0pt; text-align: justify;"><SPAN STYLE="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Paul is an Angel Investor in food system ventures and a frequent speaker and judge at conferences on venture investing and food system reform. He regularly lectures at colleges, including Notre Dame, Stanford, University of the Pacific, U.C. Davis, Johns Hopkins, Santa Clara, University of Minnesota and others.</SPAN></P>
<P STYLE="margin-top: 12.0pt; text-align: justify;"><SPAN STYLE="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">H<SPAN STYLE="font-size: small; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">e serves as a trustee of the World Affairs Council and as an advisory board member for the Business School at Montana State University in Bozeman. On the natural landscape:, Paul is member of the National Council of the </SPAN></SPAN><SPAN STYLE="font-size: small; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><A HREF="http://www.americanprairie.org" REL="nofollow">American Prairie Reserve</A> (APR), which is <EM><SPAN STYLE="color: #215868;">"Building an American Serengeti"--</SPAN></EM> an ambitious undertaking to reclaim three million acres of the nation's northern prairies as wild habitat.</SPAN></P>
<P><SPAN STYLE="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small; color: #333333;"><SPAN STYLE="text-align: justify; font-weight: bold; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;">Earlier Work:</SPAN><SPAN STYLE="text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;"> Paul began his professional career at Texas Instruments, Future Computing, and Tandem Computers. In 1996, he became CEO of HearMe, taking that company public in 1998. His two decades of operating experience included eight years with Adaptec, where he was Vice President and General Manager of the Storage Products Operation, leading the business to over a quarter billion in revenue, before turning it over to a team he hired and mentored.</SPAN></SPAN></P>
<P><SPAN STYLE="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small; color: #333333;"><SPAN STYLE="line-height: 1.15; text-align: justify; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;">Paul served as a Resident Entrepreneur for Institutional Venture Partners in 1995 and was an advisor to Accel Partners, Redpoint Ventures and Sutter Hill Ventures in the 1990s. Paul earned an M.B.A. from Stanford University, an M.A. in International Studies from Johns Hopkins and a B.A. from the University of the Pacific.</SPAN></SPAN></P>
<P><SPAN STYLE="font-size: small; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; color: #333333; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><SPAN ID="docs-internal-guid-9de75b38-b203-42a3-d820-9c388df57a31"><SPAN STYLE="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;">A grandson of Italian immigrants, he followed his heritage from San Francisco to Florence, Italy, where he attended cooking school. He once blended his passions for cooking and the environment into a series of fundraising dinners for APR--"Lewis and Clark: Cooking of the Jeffersonian Era." Checkout his website and blog at </SPAN><A STYLE="text-decoration: none;" TITLE="Foodcrunch" HREF="http://www.foodcrunch.com" TARGET="_blank" REL="nofollow"><SPAN STYLE="color: #333333; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;">FoodCrunch</SPAN></A><SPAN STYLE="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;">.</SPAN></SPAN></SPAN></P>
<P><SPAN STYLE="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small; color: #333333;"><SPAN STYLE="text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;">Favorite Books: </SPAN><SPAN STYLE="text-align: justify; font-weight: bold; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;">A River Runs Through It</SPAN><SPAN STYLE="text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;"> by Norman MacLean, because "it reminds me of growing up with my father and brother," and </SPAN><SPAN STYLE="text-align: justify; font-weight: bold; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;">The Omnivore's Dilemma</SPAN><SPAN STYLE="text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;"> by Michael Pollan, which describes how industrial food is destroying our health and the planet.</SPAN></SPAN></P>
 
 
 
 
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