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Your Calendar Now for another Dare-Not-Miss TechBiz Connection
Event!
Only $25 with
Advance Registration
(Includes Dinner, Networking and
Scenario Master for
Microsoft Excel, to help you with financial planning and
forecasting)
How do you follow an incredible TechBiz Connection event, like
August's sold-out Anatomy of a Successful Tech Venture, moderated by
Guy Kawasaki?
You
dig deeper. Focus on the unique challenges of the start-up. Bring in
a panel of renowned experts. And highlight the entrepreneurs: those
who successfully navigated the startup minefields, culminating in
mergers or IPOs. Another, founder of an early stage company, already
working through the rookie mistakes, and pointing her venture in the
direction of success.
PANELISTS:
- International
Technology Partners (Orange) -
J. Fernando Niebla, President
Founder of
Infotech Development Inc., a Top 40 Federal Contractor in 1996 when
Niebla successfully merged it with a public company. He is a member
of the boards of directors of Union Bank of California and Pacific
Life, and serves on the Business & Technology Advisory Board for (NAFIN)
Nacional Financiera (Mexican Government Development Bank). Niebla
was appointed by President Reagan to chair the National Council on
Vocational Education, and by President Bush to the Defense Policy
Advisory Board. He has a BSEE from the University of Arizona, a
MSQBA from USC, and is a CCST Fellow (California Council on Science
and Technology).
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JIAN Software (Mill Valley) -
Burke Franklin, President & CEO
Any
entrepreneur who has ever asked about software to help with their
business plan, has heard of best-seller
BizPlanBuilder by JIAN. A startup expert, Franklin is a Graduate
of UC Santa Barbara. Formerly with Texas Instruments and The Sharper
Image. Author of Business Black Belt.
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SuperLab (San Diego) - Mark
Long, Managing Director
A respected
author and consultant, Long has been a practicing securities
attorney since 1973, and has served as legal or financial counsel
for over 700 start-up companies and ventures. Formerly with the
Direct Investment Division of Kemper; over 17,000 executives have
attended his seminars. SuperLab is a licensee of the GroupGeniusT
suite of human performance technologies for start-up and emerging
growth companies.
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Rutan & Tucker (Costa Mesa) -
Robert Fish, Chair,
Intellectual Property and Technology Group
An
internationally regarded expert on intellectual property law, Fish's
clients have included companies like Fluor Corp., ICN
Pharmaceuticals, Honeywell and SRI International. Author of two
books on patents, he has successfully litigated in state and federal
courts throughout the US, overseen cases in Europe, and acted as US
counsel for major IP firms in Germany and South Korea.
- MEDeMorphus (Costa
Mesa) - David Grant, Founder
A
quintessential entrepreneur, Grant has started eight companies, and
successfully exited six of them -- including the sale of MEDeMorphus
(formerly Rx-Connect) to PacifiCare Health Systems. Recognized as an
InfoWorld CTO of the Year finalist, he founded or co-founded several
successful consulting startups, which were later acquired for their
products or services.
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Lumetique (Studio City) -
DayNa Decker, President & Founder
A top fashion
model with the prestigious Ford agency, and accomplished artist and
designer, Decker studied product design at The Art Center in
Pasadena and finance at UCLA. She has four patents pending with her
new startup, and has been navigating the minefields, ready to share
some very recent war stories. |
