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TEC Keynote by Charles Giancarlo ( 2012-03-15)

TEC keynote by Charles Giancarlo – leading PE investor and senior executive/board member of Cisco, Linksys, Avaya, Netflix, Accenture and Skype.

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TEC Panel on Entrepreneurship (Dec 6,2011)

Participants:
Mike Cassidy, built and sold 4 companies -- Stylus Innovations, Direct Hit (built in 500 days and sold for $532M), Xfire, and Ruba (sold to Google)
Stan Chudnovsky, sold 2 companies, one for over $100M
Alex Miroshnichenko, serial entrepreneur, CTO, Virsto, the "hottest" startup in the Valley

Moderator: Ilya Strebulaev, Associate Professor, Graduate School of Business, Stanford University

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TEC Fireside Chat with Vlad Shmunis, CEO, RingCentral (Feb 8,2012)

Vlad Shmunis is one of the most successful Silicon Valley entrepreneurs of Russian origin. He was recently named as one of 25 technology innovators by the World Economic Forum in Davos. Learn how to bootstrap, make your company grow, get funded -- over $50M in total - by such top funds as Sequoia Capital, Khosla Ventures, DAG Ventures and Scale Venture Partners, and manage more than 300 people. Demonstrating a unique mix of technical vision, marketing and business acumen, Vlad is building this company to become the industry leader, and is willing to share his experience with you.

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TEC Pitch and Keynote by Charles Giancarlo

Dear Friends,

Mark your calendars and join us on March 15th in Palo Alto for exciting evening featuring 5 startup pitches judged by top local investors, and keynote by Charles Giancarlo – leading PE investor and senior executive/board member of Cisco, Linksys, Avaya, Netflix, Accenture and Skype.

TEC Pitch Judges

  • Charles Giancarlo, General Partner, Silver Lake
  • Jim Connor, Sand Hill Angels
  • Vish Mishra, Clearstone Venture Partners
  • Ankur Jain, Blumberg Capital
  • Serge Plotkin, Opus Capital
  • Anis Uzzaman, Fenox Venture Capital
  • Slava Kritov, Exigen ExpertMarkets
  • Sonja Markova, Keiretsu Forum
  • Joseph Gilby, Keiretsu Forum

Register for TEC Pitch and Keynote by Charles Giancarlo in Palo Alto, United States  on Eventbrite

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Fireside Chat with Vlad Shmunis, CEO, RingCentral

Dear Friends:

Mark your calendars and join us on February 8th (Wednesday) in Palo Alto for a Fireside chat with Vlad Shmunis, CEO of RingCentral.

Vlad is one of the most successful Silicon Valley entrepreneurs of Russian origin. He was recently named as one of 25 technology innovators by the World Economic Forum in Davos. Learn how to bootstrap, make your company grow, get funded – over $50M in total - by such top funds as Sequoia Capital, Khosla Ventures, DAG Ventures and Scale Venture Partners, and manage more than 300 people. Demonstrating a unique mix of technical vision, marketing and business acumen, Vlad is building this company to become the industry leader, and is willing to share his experience with you. 

 

Register for Fireside Chat with Vlad Shmunis, CEO, RingCentral in Palo Alto, CA  on Eventbrite

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Pitching OpenSignalMaps at the TEC Conference

By Sina Khanifar, co-founder at OpenSignalMaps

Pitching is one of the best ways to get exposure and feedback for a startup, and if you're a founder in Silicon Valley there's no shortage of pitching opportunities at the hundreds of events that occur here each month. It's the sheer volume of events and tech-hectic buzz that make the valley an entrepreneurial mecca, but pitching too often and attending too many events can become a dangerous distraction, sucking away time from the more important job of building an awesome product.

This means that founders have to be selective, choosing the opportunities will get them the best exposure to investors and honest, constructive feedback. With VC luminaries like Pitch Johnson, Tim Draper, Saeed Amidi, and Daniel Zimmerman as speakers and judges, the TEC conference is undoubtedly one of the best events out there. The emphasis on international startups, who are often pitching in the valley for the first time, draws a crowd that's eager and interested, and the quality of both the pitching companies and the feedback from the panel is of the highest order.

The incredible roster of VCs and founders who attend the TEC Conference is testament to how deeply connected Stas and Anna are in the valley. But what's even more impressive is the lengths that Stas and Anna will go to help the startups who attend TEC. I've pitched at numerous events, but this was the first time that one of the organizers took the time to review the presentation before the event and offer feedback. And since Stas now knew and understood exactly what OpenSignalMaps does, he was able to make some great introductions at the event itself.

Eminent speakers, judges, and attendees are rare enough as it is, but organizers that actually care about the companies that pitch are what make TEC that rarest of all things: a pitching opportunity that more than justifies taking a break from improving your startup's product. 

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Happy New Year and 2012 plans

Dear TEC Club Members and Friends!

Happy Holidays and Happy New Year! Best wishes to you and yours in the New 2012!

We are looking forward to seeing you in the New Year. In addition to our signature "Silicon Valley Legend" speakers talks, we'll continue presenting TEC companies to top local and international investors. If you'd like to present your company at the next Startup Pitch ( March 2012), please apply at http://www.tecglobal.org/PitchingApp and send your executive summary to stas@khirman.com .

With all new excitement of the upcoming 2012 year, we would like to thank you for being a part of our life and success in 2011. Let’s see where we are:

In 2011 TEC has grown to a network of 5,500+ members, held over a dozen events in the Silicon Valley, San Francisco, New York, and Moscow. Over 40 local and international investors reviewed TEC companies – and we proudly announce that at least 4 companies got funding immediately after our events, while many more are in advanced negotiations – stay tuned for good news.

We had an exceptional line up of speakers this year with the legendary Pitch Johnson, Founding Partner, Asset Management Company; Tim Draper, Managing Director; DFJ, Saeed Amidi, Founder, Plug&Play; Dave McClure, Founder, 500 Startups; Leonid Gozman, RUSNANO; Aleksander Mitrovic , Senior VP, Deutsche Telekom; Mike Cassidy, serial entrepreneur; Stan Chudnovsky, serial entrepreneur, Alexander Miroshnichenko, CTO, Virsto, and many more.

For video recordings of our major events, please check http://www.tecglobal.org/video .
 
We are honored to have your support and are looking forward to seeing you at our future events.

We would like to express our special thanks to TEC corporate members - Deutsche Telekom, Virsto, Revvl, WilmerHale and SNR Denton for helping TEC grow and prosper.

With best wishes!
Stas Khirman & Anna Dvornikova
TEC Managing Directors

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Daniel Zimmermann keynote at TEC International Startup Conference (Dec 6,2011)

Legal Issues with Global Startups:
Incorporation, IP Protection, VC Financing, Standard Agreements

 

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Saeed Amidi keynote at TEC International Startup Conference (Dec 6,2011)

Saeed Amidi is the Founder, President and CEO of Plug and Play Tech Center. Plug and Play is the premier technology startup accelerator in the world with over 200 companies which collectively have raised over $750 million.

Saeed has been investing in technology companies for over 15 years and holds successful investments in over 70 technology companies such as PayPal, Powerset, Danger, Bix, etc.

 

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Pitch Johnson Opens TEC International Startup Conference (Dec 6,2011)

Mr. Franklin Pitcher ("Pitch") Johnson was co-founder in 1962 of Draper and Johnson Investment Company, venture capital company, and became an independent venture capitalist in 1965 as the founder of Asset Management Company. Asset Management Company has made over 250 venture investments during its more than 43 years of operation. These have included Amgen, Applied Bio Systems, Applied Micro Circuits, Conductus, Hybritech, IDEC Pharmaceuticals, Octel, Qume, Red Brick Systems, Remedy, Sierra Semiconductor, Tandem Computer, Teradyne and Verity. He was a director of many of those companies and is presently a director of three private companies, and a public investment fund operating in eastern Europe.

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What They Say About Us

"The wonderful thing about entrepreneurs is that their passion for starting new companies transcends languages and geographic boundaries."

Ron Conway, Founder and Managing Partner of the Angel Investors LP funds, early stage investor in Google and PayPal

"Networking is very important for start-ups. The challenge for them is often not money: it is mentoring and finding people who can give good advice from experience."

Esther Dyson, Founder, EDventure Holdings

"This conference is clearly a labor of love for a group of dedicated professionals who care deeply about the Eastern European entrepreneurs. From the value-packed educational panels, to the star-studded key note speakers' line up, to an amazing quantity of venture capitalists – this is a not to be missed event for any high tech entrepreneur,"

Richard Guha, President of the Marketing Executives Network and Managing Partner at MaxBrandEquity

"As Stanford MBA students, we were exposed to a lot of VC firms both from the Valley and abroad. It is at Stanford that we met Anna Dvornikova, an absolutely amazing business leader and (by our big luck) our friend, who was the center of the Russian Silicon Valley professional community, and was doing a huge work to connect Russia and the Valley. Anna helped us a lot with kick-starting Wikimart, put us to our first-ever conference, introduced us to most of Russian VCs. And all that happened in a very short time span! It was the beginning of a six-month journey that despite the particularly tough times resulted in an extraordinarily group of investors backing our start-up."

Maxim Faldin and Kamil Kurmakayev,
co-CEOs, Wikimart