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SheWorx is a global collective of ambitious female entrepreneurs and changemakers redefining leadership. @sheworx. Hosted by Yin Lin (@yinnus) and Lisa Wang (@lisawang007).
This week's breakfast will be hosted by legendary Silicon Valley Investor Stewart Alsop:
Unicorns vs. Dragons
How much should entrepreneurs understand the venture capital business in order to raise money?
What are some of the key distinctions between venture capital firms that can help entrepreneurs focus their fundraising efforts?
What does your ideal entrepreneur/company look like?
Bonus Question: Why did Elon Musk ban you from buying a Tesla?
He is a Partner at Alsop Louie Partners. In 1996, Stewart became a venture capitalist, joining New Enterprise Associates, a top-tier venture capital firm with a long track record of success in investing in early stage and growth companies.
He was a general partner with New Enterprise Associates and led that firms investments in companies such as TiVo, Portola Communications (sold to Netscape), Netcentives, Glu Mobile, and Xfire.
Stewart left NEA in 2005 and invited Gilman Louie to become his partner in a new venture capital firm designed to put to use everything the partners had learned about entrepreneurship, technology and innovation over the prior 25 years. From 2005-2013, Stewart was a member of the board of directors of Sonos Inc., which has become a thought leader in the world of digital audio and the digital living room.
He spent the first 20 years of his professional career as a business journalist and commentator. It did not start well: he earned a bachelors degree in English from Occidental College in Los Angeles in 1975, but had to stay the summer to complete his credits. Then he couldnt find a job, so he went to bartending school. But bars werent hiring. He persisted and, from 1975 to 1996, had a series of jobs in which he learned how to be a business editor, including Executive Editor of Inc. Magazine, where he became fascinated by both entrepreneurship and personal computers and as the third editor of InfoWorld, the job that got him moved from Boston to Silicon Valley in 1983.
In 1985, having been fired from two jobs, he started his own business, a newsletter called P.C. Letter, which became widely read in the executive ranks of the major hardware and software companies that formed and grew the personal computer industry. He also started two conferences, Agenda and Demo and published the Social Register to the PC Industry.
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