MINDSETCAP:Silicon Valley
Mindset & Funding Summit-Powered by
UC Berkeley SF
MINDSETCAP:Silicon Valley
Mindset & Funding Summit-Powered by
UC Berkeley SF
We are excited to invite you to MINDSETCAP, an interactive summit where you will develop your mindset for raising capital and accelerating your business.
Investors say the number one reason for not getting funded is not having the right entrepreneurial mindset. At MINDSETCAP get ready to learn key insights on how to:
Part 1: Develop a fundable mindset by looking inwards.
Part 2: Apply the new Mindset and accelerate your business growth and funding from Investors and Mentors like CEO’s, Tech Media people, Product& Innovation experts.
Part 3: Take Networking to the next level and attract the best community of investors, Mentors, customer etc possible.
As an added bonus, there will be an Investor & Mentor Lounge where you will be able to meet some of our investors and other speakers for impromptu mentoring sessions. Watch some of our experts on Silicon Valley Funding & Mindset share their wisdom.
Agenda:
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9 -9.30: Registration.
9.30 am- 9.40 am: Welcoming address& Opening Remarks about Silicon Valley Mindset by KC Wisdom & Dr Fredrick Wehrle, Director UC Berkeley Extension.
9.40 10 am Opening Keynote: “Why Founders need to understand the Mindset of Investors” by Paul Kallmes, Co-founder of Angel Accelerator who trains investors around the world, especially in Nordic Countries.
Part 1: Silicon Valley Mindset—Your Inner Journey
10 –11 am: How to sustain an Innovator’s Mindset by fostering a culture of unlearning & creativity..
Talk & Interactive Workshop conducted by Hanz Kurdi, UC Berkeley Extension Faculty.
11- Noon: How to acquire an Entrepreneurial Mindset
Talk& Interactive Workshop conducted by Brigette Larrusso, UC Berkeley Extension Faculty.
Noon to 12.45 pm: How to access Silicon Valley Mindset through deeper Wisdom –Fireside Chat with KC Wisdom & Dada, The Monk Dude (www.themonkdude.com)
12.45 –1.45 pm—Catered Lunch
Past Event Video
Part 2: Applying Mindset to Accelerate your business and Funding: Your Outer Journey
1.45 pm -2.15 pm: Keynote 2: How to reduce your chances of failure --Roger Royse, Owner Royse Law, Large Tech Law Firm and Author of “Dead on Arrival”.
2.15 pm – 2.45pm: Fireside Chat: Mindset needed for women entrepreneurs to get funding…This chat is led by Investor and Product development expert, Katie McCann, who will interview a senior member of Pipeline Angels.
2.45 pm –3.15 pm: Fireside Chat: Mindset needed for social entrepreneurs to get Funding. TBD.
3.15-3.45 pm: Fireside Chat: How a startup CEO can acquire a Fundable Mindset. Someone who has built and run large cos will interview a senior Investor from Keiretsu Forum& Harvard Business Angels.
3.45 –4.00 pm: Coffee Break
4 –4.30 pm: How to build fundable Products through Design Thinking. Leading Thought Leader who is a Mentor with Stanford, Draper, MIT and other Universities and Institutions will interview someone who runs large IOT & Blockchain portfolio for large co and has been part of an IPO previously.
4.30-4.45 pm: How startups can get traction with Silicon Valley Media and raise crowdfunding. Emmy Award Winning former Journalist turned PR person will make a presentation about her experiences in helping startups and philanthropic causes get traction with Silicon Valley Media.
4.45—5 pm: How startups can get corporate customers and access non-traditional sources of funding& mentorship. Presentation by Gerry Baranano, Founder of Tech Futures Group.
5 -5.30 pm: Mindset needed to network with Silicon Valley Investors and Mentors –Interactive Presentation by KC Wisdom titled “7 Rules for Connecting with Wisdom”. We may have a Closing Keynote from a prominent investor/entrepreneur in this slot.
5.30-6 pm: Networking.
6 pm: No Host Drinks & Optional Dinner at Osha Thai, Embarcadero
Your Speakers & Mentors
KC Wisdom: Kaustav Chaudhuri (KC) is an author, speaker, advisor, and thought leader. He is the founder of Pitch Globally, with chapters in San Francisco, Los Angeles, Las Vegas, and London. KC has a vast and profound knowledge of the ecosystem of startups. He has built a colossal network of key people that spans the entire value chain of startups in the heart of Silicon Valley.
KC was part of a team of Silicon Valley experts who wrote “The First Mile” (John Wiley), a book on entrepreneurship commissioned by TIE, largest organization of entrepreneurs in the world. He is also the author of “Design Your Mindset” which is in the editing stage. Prior to the world of startups, he worked for large multinational companies like HCL Technologies, TCG Software ( outsourcing arm of PE& VC Fund affiliated to George Soros) etc. KC is also a long term Executive Committee Member of the Leukemia& Lymphoma Society.
Currently he focusing on expanding Pitch Globally's training program and strengthening Pitch Globally’s online presence to intensify bootcamp style training program, to streamline the seed/early stage investment process in a more organised manner.
KC Wisdom
Kaustav Chaudhuri (KC)
Victoria Sanchez DeAlba: Victoria Sanchez De Alba is president and owner of De Alba Communications, a well-respected multicultural and mainstream PR/media relations consultancy firm. Her agency provides communications consultation to a wide range of industries and service areas, raising public awareness through strategic media outreach and digital marketing. She worked at The Terpin Group, a leading high-tech PR firm in San Francisco managingstartup companies and delivering substantial media results. She then went out on her own establishing De Alba Communications in 2001.Prior to the Terpin Group, she worked in television journalism and investigative reporting for the Center for Investigative Reporting, Inc., (CIR) San Francisco, where she was part of a national Emmy award-winning team, as well as ABC/7 KGO TV, San Francisco, and CBS KOVR TV-13, Sacramento. Victoria received her Bachelor of Arts in Communications, with emphasis in Media Law, from the University of San Francisco, San Francisco, CA.www.dealba.net
Victoria Sanchez DeAlba
Sharon Y. Sim: Sharon Sim is founder and president of SKC Inc., a public relations and digital marketing agency. Currently based in Los Angeles, Sharon worked for more than a decade in Silicon Valley. In SV, she worked at the startup division of WeberShandwick, the world’s largest PR firm, and later founded her first agency Panache, which was acquired by GolinHarris (a top 10 PR firm). She then became head of GolinHarris’ San Francisco office and its Asian Practice. Sharon also worked at Shipley & Associates, a political consultancy, and is a former producer/journalist. She has a Masters in Professional Writing from the University of Southern California and a Bachelor of Journalism, Public Relations (Honors) from the University of Texas at Austin. www.skc-pr.com
Sharon Y. Sim
Axel Tillmann
Axel Tillmann: Axel Tillmann, is the Managing Partner at Alpha-Consult, a going to market and businessstrategy consulting firm as well as a Senior Principle in Tranzishen, a design:innovation agency.With his engagements he focuses on moving business and society to a new + smarter future. Beit transitioning to a new market, brand, strategy, or partnership, Mr. Tillmann helps clientsdesign understandable plans, and innovate meaningful solutions.Mr. Tillmann brings close to three decades of leadership experience to the table, havingdirected numerous startups to and through successful exits, which also allowed him to gain awealth of experience dealing with publicly held firms. Known as a serial entrepreneur, Mr.Tillmann is a well-known, well-connected expert involving start-ups, entrepreneurship andenterprise endorsement.In the last 5 years Mr. Tillmann consulted with 100s of firms from a wide range of technologyand industry sectors (Communication, Internet Security, IoT, Travel Industry, Life Sciences,Renewable Energy and Green Technologies). He is a thought after startup advisor/mentor andcontributor to Pitch Globally, Pitchforce, Global Technology Symposium and various otherevents. Additionally he is the co-organizer of the World Summit on Innovation andEntrepreneurship.
Prior positions were with RVC-USA, a Going-To-Market strategy firm for foreign companies thatwanted to enter the US market, AT Consult (among many projects lead a team of GermanEnergy developers to work on the opportunity for 300 MW wind power in New Hampshirecooperating with the then Governor of NH), Arcsight (acquired by HP), Azure Technologies(acquired by GN), ENIRA Technology (acquired by ArcSight) and GBS Laboratories. In 1998 hefounded NOVILIT, Inc., a firm specializing in the design of electronic automation products andprotocols. At NOVILIT, Mr. Tillmann oversaw and successfully ran the funding, market strategyall product development and R&D for the firm.An accomplished speaker and author well known for his technical expertise, Mr. Tillmannadvises numerous industry organizations and served as Chairman of the Board of Alion Energy,Chairman of the Board of Appnow, past Member of the BoD of SMI (before recent $300MM&A), and is in the BoA of more than 10 other companies. He holds degrees in Bachelor ofScience in EE from the University of Wuppertal in Germany and a Bachelor of Science in BAfrom Luebeck.
Don Clark: Don Clark has written about the technology sector for nearly four decades, including 23 years at the Wall Street Journal and most recently as a freelance contributor to the New York Times. His reporting covered the rise of the computer chip, the personal computer, the Internet, smartphones and cloud computing, putting him in regular contact with the best-known business leaders of Silicon Valley. His career included six years at the St. Paul Pioneer Press and seven years at the San Francisco Chronicle before joining the Wall Street Journal, where he both wrote and edited stores about the technology sector. He was raised in Pasadena, Calif., and received a master’s degree in journalism from the University of Minnesota and a bachelor’s degree in English from the University of California at Los Angeles.
Don Clark
Fri, May 3, 2019
9:00 AM – 4:00 PM PDT
Fri, May 3, 2019
9:00 AM – 4:00 PM PDT