Founder Bootcamp

This Bootcamp is a series of three full day intense workshop followed by mentoring support & an exclusive review of fund raising needs of startups, from legal structure, to pitch workshops.

Demo Night

A group of founder bootcamp founders & few selected founders to demo. Who Should Attend

This program is designed for earlier stage founders & founders to be in Silicon Valley who seek to raising external funding.

We have few presenting slot for qualified founders has prior angel funding. Apply here: https://goo.gl/forms/sfjxJknLF17nf0u13 This event is free to qualified investors, & cost $100 for founders

Who Should Attend

Earlier Stage Founders

This program is designed for earlier stage founders & founders to be in Silicon Valley who seek to raising external funding.

Angel investor & earlier stage VCs

Free to accredit investors(Must be accredit investor) :https://goo.gl/forms/ZXH8N0Jdt8pemZkk1

Agenda (Tentative):

3:30PM: Pitch Review (presenter only)

4PM: Mentoring session (presenter only)

5PM Keynote

5:15PM: Pitch start

6:30PM: Investor Review Panel

7PM Reception & Food

==== Instructors & Mentors ===

Ajay Ramachandran, Founding Partner, Happiness Ventures

Michael A. Glenn, Partner, Perkins Coie

Jason Schneiderman, Partner, Perkins Coie

Anna Darian, Founder, STORY BOSS NATION

James (Jim) F. Jensen, Partner, Perkins Coie

Bill Reichert, Managing Director, Garage Ventures

Naeem Zafar, serial entrepreneur, facultyUC Berkeley, UCSF, Ozyegin University & LUMS

Anil Advani, Managing Partner, Inventus Law

Lu Zhang, Founding partner, Fusion Fundalso know as NewGen capital

Mei Xu, Partner, CPA, Moss Adams, LLP

David Cao, Founder & CEO F50, Host of Startup Tea Talk, Founding Partner, F50 Ventures

Li Sun, PartnerBessmer venture

Susan Hobbs, Partner CrunchFund

Canice Wu, Vice President of Corporate InnovationRocketSpace

Anu (Anurag) NigamFormer Angel Investor, Former Serial Entrepreneur Turned Professional Startup Advisor

Sumeet Jain, Co-Founder & General PartnerLuma Capital Partners

Chance J. Du, Founding Partner, Coefficient Ventures

Steve Hoffman, Captain & CEO Founders Space

Bin ZhaiManaging Partner, Zhai & Wang, LLP

Shuonan Chen, General Partner, Agile VC

More to come!

==== Bio =====

Ajay Ramachandran, Founding Partner, Happiness Ventures

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Ajayis a Founding Partner at Happiness Ventures - a venture fund thatinvests in technology companies lead by entrepreneurs who have a passion & mission to make the world a happier place. With $480mm under management, the fund group concentrates on both early stage (Seed & Series A) start-ups & growth stage companies. Happiness Ventures invests with a long-term view & supports our startups throughout their entire lifecycle. Prior to Happiness Ventures, Ajay was a serial entrepreneur/co-founder/executive in 10 start-ups with 6 acquisitions & 2 IPOs. Ajay has also been an active angel investor & co-founded a successful international incubator based in Bangalore, India. Ajay is a valley native who grew up in the silicon valley. Ajay also volunteers & mentors various youth programs helping develop future global leaders.

Michael A. Glenn, Partner, Perkins Coie

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Michael Glenn is a partner with the firm's Intellectual Property practice with a focus on patent prosecution. He represents clients in all aspects of intellectual property law & at all phases of patent prosecution, including handling IP audits & strategy, opinions of counsel, pre-litigation patent defense & assertion, appeals, reissues & reexaminations. Michael has experience with the following representative technologies: telecommunications, information technology, business methods, medical devices & mechanical inventions.

Jason Schneiderman, Partner, Perkins Coie

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Jason Schneiderman, a partner in the firm's Corporate practice, focuses his practice in the area of business law with a particular emphasis on the formation of startup/emerging companies, venture capital & debt financings, mergers & acquisitions, intellectual property licensing & general corporate matters. He represents clients in a number of industries, including computer software, hardware, electronics companies, communications, software as a service, computer games, virtual reality, consumer facing websites (with an emphasis in the travel, real estate & social networking industries), & media/publishing companies. He advises startups & venture-backed companies on business plans, incorporation, financing, founders stock, employee equity plans, intellectual property protection, licensing, distribution & strategic agreements, & mergers & acquisitions.

Jason also represents a number of search funds & has experience at all stages from formation, acquisition of targets, debt financing, general corporate matters, follow on investments to liquidation of the search fund. Jason also has a special practice representing companies, venture funds, & joint partnership through our Australian Corporate Sub-Practice Group regarding Australian companies flip into the U.S. or otherwise in establishing a U.S. presence or U.S. companies establishing an Australian presence or acquiring companies. Internally Jason has the additional roll as the firms Corporate Training Partner overseeing the corporate training, mentoring & attorney development programs.

Anna Darian, Founder & Coach, Story Boss Nation

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Anna, is a storyteller & the founder ofStory Boss Nation, a coaching platform that helps entrepreneurs craft clear, confident & unforgettable pitches using the tools of storytelling.

Michael Fox Silicon Valley Emissary at Global Corporate Venturing, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)

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Michael is a senior strategist, rainmaker & implementation Jedi. He identifies & realizes operational value add. A consummate networker, he has built a world class circle of influence in the startup & venture community, corporate partners & service providers. He launched the VAIO for SONY & grew the business 40% in the first year. He drove Corporate Development under Mitsubishi Electrics Presidents office. Michael acted as Entrepreneur In Residence for a $5B fund where he grew one portfolio company from a valuation of $50M to $300M in five months. Currently, in addition to teaching entrepreneurship at an MBA program in Design Strategy, he is the Silicon Valley Emissary for London-based Global Corporate Venturing which supports the global corporate venture capital community. Michael is an active member of the MIT Alumni community in Northern California & an MIT Venture Mentor.

James (Jim) F. Jensen, Partner, Perkins Coie

James Jensen, a partner in the firm's Emerging Companies & Venture Capital practice & a leader of the firm's China Emerging Company & the Investment Fund Formation practices in Silicon Valley, represents emerging companies, accelerator/incubators & venture capital funds in diverse industries, including clean technology (e.g.,biofuels, LEDs, smart meters & solar), digital media, Internet, medical devices, mobile, security & software. He is a technology entrepreneur & has formed & ran multiple e-commerce & other Internet companies, which gives him a unique understanding of legal issues as viewed through the eyes of entrepreneurs. He also represents traditional brick & mortar businesses that produce profits & cash flow, anathemas to Silicon Valley startup companies.

Jim has nearly 15 years of legal experience in the following:

representing start-up & emerging growth companies at all stages of their development;

assisting corporate, angel & venture capital firms with their investment transactions in the United States & China;

forming angel investment & venture capital funds & providing advice to fund managers about their ongoing operations;

leading exit transactions, including mergers, acquisitions & other restructurings; and

counseling clients on board management & corporate governance issues.

Jim has been involved in more than 250 investment & exit transactions during his legal career and, as importantly, a handful of exit or restructuring transactions as a business executive. His transactional experiences range from a few hundred thousand dollars to several billion dollars. Prior to joining Perkins Coie, Jim managed hundreds of investment transactions as general counsel, Emerging Markets, with VantagePoint Capital Partners, a large venture capital & private equity firm. He benefits his client through his broad network of contacts in the angel investment & venture capital community.

He is a sought-after speaker on topics related to emerging companies, venture capital & related legal issues & an author of many articles on start-up business strategy. He is intrigued by innovation & regularly attends technology events to learn & exchange ideas about emerging technologies. He enjoys helping entrepreneurs hone their business plans & establish strategic objectives.

His recent clients include VantagePoint Capital Partners & Chrysalix Energy Venture Capital, as well as accelerators, UpWest Labs & Advise.me Management. Jim has also been recently engaged to represent a large corporate investor in venture capital investments & a prominent family office in investment restructurings.

Bill Reichert Managing Director, Garage Ventures

Bill Reichert has over 30 years of experience as an investor, entrepreneur & operating executive. Since joining Garage in 1998, Bill has focused on early-stage information technology & materials science companies. He has been a board director or board observer at CaseStack, WhiteHat Security, ClearFuels Technology, Simply Hired, MiaSole, D.light Design, ThermoCeramix, & VisaNow, among others. Prior to Garage, Bill was a co-founder or senior executive in several venture-backed technology startups, including Trademark Software, The Learning Company, & Academic Systems. Earlier in his career, he worked at McKinsey & Company, Brown Brothers Harriman & Co., & the World Bank. Bill earned a B.A. at Harvard College & an M.B.A. from Stanford University. He was a founding board member & a Chairman of the Churchill Club, & is an advisor to the Womens Startup Lab. He is also a member of the Council on Foreign Relations in New York.

Naeem Zafar, serial entrepreneur, faculty of UC Berkeley, UCSF, Ozyegin University & LUMS

Naeem is a serial entrepreneur & currently serves as the co-founder & CEO of TeleSense, an IoT (Internet of Things) company creating solutions for the food safety & regulatory compliance in critical industries. He co-founded & served as the CEO of Bitzer Mobile, an enterprise security & mobility company that was acquired by Oracle in November 2013. Naeem has been teaching at the University of California Berkeley, Center of Entrepreneurship & Technology in 2005. He is also the Professor of the Practice at Brown University. He teaches courses in Entrepreneurship, Technology Strategy, Innovation & New Venture Finance at Brown & Berkeley. Naeem started his own business at the age of 26 & subsequently went on to start, or work at, six startups. His first job out of Brown University with a degree in electrical engineering was to design chips & electronic systems. Naeem has authored five books on entrepreneurship on topics ranging from conducting market research to seeking the right funding to successful ways to start a business. Information can be found onSteve Hoffman(Captain Hoff) is a serial entrepreneur, angel investor, LP in August Capital, & author of the bookMake Elephants Fly: The Process of Radical Innovation. Hoffman is also the Captain & CEO ofFounders Space, one of the worlds leading incubators & accelerators, with over 50 partners in 22 countries.

Always innovating on his life, Captain Hoff has tried more professions than cats have lives, including serial entrepreneur, venture capitalist, angel investor, studio head, computer engineer, filmmaker, Hollywood TV exec, published author, coder, game designer, manga rewriter, animator & voice actor.

Hoffman was the Founder & Chairman of the Producers Guild Silicon Valley Chapter, Board of Governors of the New Media Council, & founding member of the Academy of Televisions Interactive Media Group.

While in Hollywood, Hoffman worked as a TV development executive at Fries Entertainment, known for producing over a hundred TV shows (acquired by MGM). He went on to pioneer interactive television with his venture-funded startup Spiderdance, which produced interactive TV shows with NBC, MTV, Turner, Warner Brothers, History Channel, Game Show Network & others.

In Silicon Valley, Hoffman founded two more venture-backed startups in the areas of games & entertainment, & worked as Mobile Studio Head for Infospace, with such hit mobile games as Tetris, Wheel of Fortune, Tomb Raider, Thief, Hitman, Skee-Ball & X-Files.

Hoffman went on to launch Founders Space, with the mission to educate & accelerate entrepreneurs. Founders Space has become one of the top startup accelerators in the world. Hoffman has trained hundreds of startup founders & corporate executives in the art of innovation & routinely works with the worlds largest global corporations & venture funds.

Hoffman has a BS from the University of California in Computer Engineering & an MFA from the University of Southern California in Cinema Television. He currently resides in San Francisco but spends most of his time in the air, visiting startups, investors & innovators all over the world.

Bin ZhaiManaging Partner at Zhai & Wang, LLP

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A seventeen-year CPA practitioner, also practice in financial planning, helps many professionals, high net-worth individuals & small business owners from tax, accounting to wealth management. I specialize in personal & corporate tax planning & preparation; company formation; small business accounting, payroll, company benefit, international taxation & personal finance.

Securities services offered through HD Vest Investment Services(SM) (HDVIS), Member/SIPC.

Advisory services offered through HD Vest Advisory Services(SM) (HDVAS). HDVIS does not provide tax or legal advice. Please visitwww.hdvest.com/social_policyfor more information.

Shuonan Chen, General Partner at Agile VC

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General Partner at Agile VC, CEO of Shinect, Instructor at UC Berkeley & Singularity University

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