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Only $25 with
Advance Registration
(Includes Dinner
and
Networking)
Venture capital is back in a big way, flush with money to invest in
that next great tech company - but not about to repeat the mistakes
of the recent past. For the entrepreneur, that means finding ways to
get from idea to prototype to working product (with paying
customers) before that first VC is going to answer your phone
call.
So
how do you bootstrap your technology? How can you develop
your company's "crown jewels" before you have a full team in place?
What barriers are you likely to run into, and how do you
successfully get around them? These are the people who can tell you
how they did it, and how you can too!
Come
and join us to find out the secrets of successful product or service
development of the pros -- from the pros themselves.
PANELISTS:
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Ceyx
Technologies (San Diego) - Carol Fuller,
CEO
Carol co-founded Ceyx
Technologies, which replaces analog based hardware circuits with
intelligent software
controls that enables smaller, lighter and smarter products
for lasers, laptop
and PC LCD display
screens and large screen
TVs. Fuller began
her career with Hewlett Packard in 1981 and developed the disposable
ink cartridge business. At Quantum she grew their digital tape
business unit to a $300 Million business.
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White Sands Technology (LA)
- David Cherin,
CEO
David is the
founder and CEO of White Sands Technology, the leader in the
database management, performance, auditing and data recovery tools
for the Sybase market. With no external funding, White Sands reached
it's current industry leadership due to it's superior technology. A
technologist and a serial entrepreneur, David sold his previous
company Blue Lagoon Software to Mercury Interactive in 1995. Cherin
started programming at the age of 15, started marketing his software
to other software companies at the age of 16 and worked for
Microsoft Consulting Services.
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Peerseeker (Irvine) -
Brian Morrow,
President & CEO
Peerseeker is
a peer-to-peer radio communications software start-up, enabling GPS
devices to interoperate. A
serial entrepreneur,
Brian was previously the President of Endeavors Technology, an
Irvine-based start-up selling Web Services solutions which he sold
to Tadpole Technology, and Chairman of the Peer-to-Peer
international industry association. Earlier, Brian had
award-winning technology start-up and turnaround leadership
experience with Texas Instruments and Select Software Tools.
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Septium (Irvine) - Jack Bicer,
President
The "Father of
Uninstall", Jack is the founder of Septium, a spreadsheet tools
company. A 20+ year veteran of the software industry, Jack was the
Chief Technology Officer of InsureTrade and 1GlobalPlace, which was
sold to VeriSign. Jack also runs a consulting practice specializing
in Technology Development, Startups and Turnaround Management.
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Software Nation,
Gil Figueroa, CEO
Over 30 years in the computer industry with
broad experience ranging from hardware and manufacturing to software
development and retail distribution. Gil is most noted for his
acquisition of PICK Systems Inc. and merging it with Omnis
Software/Raining Data Corp. (RDTA), where he led the company from
$7-million per year to $22-million+ within three years. Gil is
currently developing his next software product for the Software
Nation with mixed experiences in offshore development. |
