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<P><SPAN>What is the biggest factor why qualified entrepreneurs dont receive funding? When you pitch to investors & VCs, & they decline an investment in your company, they usually cite market size, traction, technology etc. as reasons for declining. Rarely do they reveal that a lack of confidence in you as a founder is the real reason. However, most early stage investors cite the strength of founding team as the key driver for their decision. As a startup founder, it is often difficult to assess yourself, & figure out how to enhance yourself basically, you need to expand your consciousness so that you can prepare yourself for funding & this Chat will put you on the path.</SPAN></P>
<P><SPAN>Ankur Jain is a rare VC who brings together the world of investing & the world of consciousness & Inner Engineering. I have known him for eight years; he is a true change maker whose life revolves around yoga & meditation. We will have </SPAN><SPAN>impact investing & systemic change experts participating in the event as well as the same obstacles are faced by social entrepreneurs as well. KCwill also interview Bobby Fiskin, co-founder of Reframeit on the increasingly overlap between investors & impact investors & other systemic changes. </SPAN></P>
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<P><SPAN>Ankur is Managing Partner at Emergent Ventures (<A HREF="http://www.emergent.vc/" TARGET="_blank" REL="noopener noreferrer noopener nofollow noopener noreferrer nofollow nofollow noreferrer nofollow"><SPAN>www.emergent.vc</SPAN></A>), a seed stage venture capital firm. Previously, Ankur was a venture investor at Nexus Venture Partners investing in US & India. Prior to that, Ankur was venture investor at Blumberg Capital investing in US & Israel. Prior to that, Ankur did strategy consulting at Accenture across a range of verticals including healthcare, financial services & technology. Earlier, Ankur led product teams at Andiamo Systems & later Cisco which acquired Andiamo in 2004. Prior to that, Ankur held engineering roles at Softaware Networks & later at Digital Island, which acquired Softaware Networks in 2000. Ankur is also co-founder of Vama, an eco-technology company. <BR> <BR> Ankur holds a Bachelors in in Computer Science & Engineering from IIT Delhi, a Masters in Computer Science from UCLA, & an MBA in Management from the Wharton School where he graduated as a Palmer Scholar. Ankur is also a co-inventor for five technology patents. Ankur is Chair for TiE (The Indus Entrepreneurs) San Francisco.</SPAN></P>
<P><SPAN>Agenda: </SPAN></P>
<P><SPAN>5.30- 6.00 pm: Registration</SPAN></P>
<P><SPAN>6 6.45 pm: Fireside Chat where Ankur Jain is interviewed by Kaustav KC Chaudhuri, co-founder of Pitch Globally (<A HREF="http://www.pitchglobally.com/" TARGET="_blank" REL="noopener noreferrer noopener nofollow noopener noreferrer nofollow nofollow noreferrer nofollow"><SPAN>www.pitchglobally.com</SPAN></A>)</SPAN></P>
<P><SPAN>6.45- 7 pm: Q&A </SPAN></P>
<P><SPAN>7 -7.30 pm Interactive Fireside Chat(including Q&A) between Bobby Fishkin & KC.</SPAN></P>
<P><SPAN>7.30-8 pm Networking</SPAN></P>
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<P><SPAN>Bios: </SPAN></P>
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<P><STRONG><SPAN><A HREF="https://www.linkedin.com/in/bobbyfishkin/" TARGET="_blank" REL="noopener noreferrer noopener nofollow noopener noreferrer nofollow nofollow noreferrer nofollow"><SPAN>Bobby Fishkin</SPAN></A></SPAN></STRONG><SPAN>is the CEO of Reframe It Inc & Co-founder of CrowdDoing, a joint initiative between Reframe It & Advance Social Innovation to connect the social enterprise sector & volunteers; he also serves as a strategic partner of the Social Stock Exchange.Bobby has also co-led deliberative democracy projects internationally.</SPAN></P>
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<P><STRONG><SPAN>Kaustav KC Chaudhuri is the co-founder of Pitch Globally </SPAN></STRONG><SPAN>and is an Advisor to several other large tech events groups & Angel Funds. He has extensive experience as an Author, Speaker, Entrepreneur & Executive in Silicon Valley both in startups as well as for large companies like HCL Technologies. He co-founded Biztech, an outsourcing strategy & leadership company, which got acquired by TCG Software, outsourcing arm of private equity& VC funds affiliated to George Soros where he became part of the Management Team & helped leverage significant investments in companies like Perkin Elmer("PKI"), Sybase(acquired by SAP for $ 5b), Selectica(went IPO), Oblix(acquired by Oracle) etc. He is the author of Design your Mind (soon to be launched) & was part of a team of Silicon Valley experts who wrote The First Mile (John Wiley), a book on entrepreneurship on behalf of The Indus Entrepreneurs(TIE), the largest organization of entrepreneurs in the world. He is also an Executive Committee Member of the Leukemia& Lymphoma Society.</SPAN></P>
<P><SPAN>The sharp edge of a razor is difficult to pass over; thus the wise say the path to Salvation is hard Katha Upanishad from where W. Somerset Maughaum, adapted the name of his famous book on enlightenment, The Razors Edge, later made into major motion picture</SPAN></P>
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