A special 2-weeks long seminar for startup FOUNDERS ONLY on startup marketing, product management, sales, and VC financing.
DEEP DIVE SILICON VALLEY PROGRAM
Deep Dive is a 2-week long program held in Silicon Valley for a small selected group of Russia entrepreneurs (max 20 founders/CEOs). The program helps technology companies and investors extend their business operations: establish partnerships and connections, setup local presence and accelerate cross-border business development.
The program consists of seminars held by leading angel investors, prominent venture capitalists, successful entrepreneurs, marketing, product and business development experts, Stanford University professors, representatives of Fortune500 companies, US lawyers, and other experts in creating high technology ventures, developing business plans, structuring deals, and transferring intellectual property. We cover topics of entrepreneurship, team and culture, company valuation, capital structure, product management, marketing, and sales. The program includes networking events and company case studies, pitches, and presentations conducted.
List of Speakers and Coaches
Steve Blank, Serial Entrepreneur; Founder, Epiphany, Lecturer, Stanford University, Graduate School of Engineering
Jim Smith, General Partner, Mohr Davidow Ventures
Brian Jacobs, General Partner, Emergence Capital Partners
Mark Iwanovski, General Partner, Trident Capital
Marylene Delbourg-Delphis, Serial Entrepreneur, Professional CEO, Coach
Artem Boytsov, Senior Software Engineer, Google(Google tour)
Andrew Filev, CEO, Wrike
Philipp Korn, TriNet
Laurie Lumenti, Silicon Valley Bank
Sondra Card, Executive Recruiter
Phil Libin, CEO, Evernote
Vivek Mehra, General Partner, August Capital
Alex Miroshnichenko, CTO, Virsto Software
Daniel Zimmerman, Partner, SNR Denton (Silicon Valley Office)
Anna Otkina, Partner,SNR Denton (Moscow Office)
Bill Tai, Partner, Charles River Ventures
Betty Kayton, Experienced Startup CFO
Esther Dyson, Founder, EDventures
Angelika Blendstrup, International Exec Communication Coach
Ilya Strebulaev, Professor of Finance, Stanford Graduate School of Business
Asa Dotzler, Director, Product Management, Mozilla Corp
Sergey Burkov, Angel investor, Advisor to Start-Ups
Alex Rosen, Managing Director, IDG Ventures
Matt Marshall, Chief Editor, Venture Beat
Neal Silverman,Sr. Vice President, DEMO Conference
Erin Vehr, VP Horn Group (Premier PR Agency)
Stan Chudnovsky, Serial Entrepreneur, Co-Founder, Ooga Labs
Chuck De Vita, Managing Director, Growth Process Consulting
Lilia Shirman, Managing Director, The Shirman Group
Vlad Shmunis, CEO, RingCentral
Aleksey Savateyev, Director, Yahoo! Cloud
Vera Belenky, Executive, Digital Media, Accenture
Peter Loukianoff, Partner, Almaz Capital Partners
Henry Vogel, CEO, Apptera
Alexei Agratchev, CEO, BVI Networks
Alex Scherbakovsky, SilverLake
Eric Buatois, General Partner, Sofinnova Ventures
Dafina Toncheva, Partner, Tugboat Ventures
Serge Plotkin, Partner, Opus Capital; Professor of Computer Science, Stanford University, Co-Founder, Decru (sold to Network Appliances)
Alex Fedosseev, VP Product Management, 4Home (acquired by Motorola in December 2010)
Organizers and Instructors:
Vera Shokina, Runa Capital; Managing Director, TEC (The Entrepreneurs’ Club)
Anna Dvornikova, CEO, Entana Corp; Managing Director, TEC
Stas Khirman, Founder & Managing Director, TEC
Nikolai Mitushin, Partner, ABRT Fund
Ilya Antipov,Director of Operations, Ingria Technopark