SVCWireless Entrepreneurship Workshop Series (II)

-  Entrepreneur Incubation Skills: how they think, live and work 

You are in the Silicon Valley. You have heard lots of successful stories that creative people build up their own companies: Intel, Microsoft, Yahoo, Cisco, Google, Marvel ... You get excited. You have the passion to be one of these brilliant entrepreneurs. You want to make big impact! 

But where should you start from? What skills does a successful entrepreneur have? How to avoid all of the traps during the journey? Bring your questions to the SVCWireless Entrepreneurship Workshop Series. Directly communicate with the top attorneys, accountants, VCs, and entrepreneurs. Have your case study in the field. Get first-hand information about corporation laws, financing, taxation, entrepreneurship skill, VC, equity allocation and more! 

Entrepreneur Incubation Skills: how they think, live and work 

The journey of entrepreneurship is not necessarily full of flowers, applause, and spotlights. There can be obstacles, traps, and mine fields. It is a long and tough journey that only people equipped with persistency, confidence, enthusiasm, and commitment to perform can accomplish. How to avoid all of the odds? What kind of incubation skills those pioneers have obtained during their tenure of entrepreneurship? Could we succeed as well? Come to join our entrepreneurship workshop. Discuss with our seasoned business leaders about:

- Lessons are learned  
- The do’s and don’ts 
- What entrepreneurs needed the most at the very early stage venture? 
- How to discover your right partners for business success? 
- What are the typical issues and obstacles for entrepreneurs? 
- How to overcome those obstacles? 
- What is the most important element to become a successful entrepreneur? 

Date: April 10, 2007

Time: 6:30 – 7 pm, Registration and networking

      7:00 - 9:00 pm, workshop

Venue: Fenwick & West LLP, Silicon Valley Center

      801 California Street, Mountain View, CA 94041,

 650 – 988 – 8500

Fee: Regular member: Free

      Associate member: $20 RSVP, $25 at the door

   Non-member: $20 RSVP, $25 at the door

   Student: $5 (Student ID required)

RSVP:

rsvp@svcwireless.org with the following subject line: “4/10: Your Name”

Contact and more information:

Yuan Tian, yuan.tian@svcwireless.org

Moderator:

Bob Fu-Yuan Lin, Founder of Multi-Dimensional Venture Partners and co-founder of Capital Multiplier International

Panelist:

Bruno de Beauregard, Co-Founder & CEO, Netcipia Inc.

William Wittmeyer, Co-Founder & CEO, eXS Inc.

Henry H. Wong, Founder & Managing Director, Diamond TechVentures LLP

Speaker Bio:

Mr. Bruno de Beauregard is the co-founder and CEO of Netcipia Inc, Palo Alto, CA, a company pioneering on 2^nd generation open source wiki technology. Mr. Bruno is an entrepreneur with successful track record in different continents. Prior to Netcipia, Mr. Beauregard served as the co-founder and CEO of Mayetic, Paris, France in 1996 – 2005. Mayetic was known as the first French “virtual company” that offered on-line collaborative workspaces in English, French and Spanish. It also demonstrated the relevance of this type of organization with an offshore team established in India. In 2004, Mayetic won the “Innovative Enterprise Label” of the French Agency for Innovation, and the “EUREKA Label” of the European label in applied R&D. In December, 2005, Mayetic was purchased by Oodrive, a French ASP company. In 1993-1995, Mr. Beauregard was the VP Sales, then CEO of Ergosum, Paris, France. In two years, Ergosum doubled its revenue under Mr. Beauregard’s leadership. In 1995, Ergosum was sold to Group Decan, a French software company. He was the Sales Director of Banking and Insurance Market of Sycomex, Paris, France in 1991 – 1992.  

Mr. Beauregard got his Master in International Business from Institute of International Relations, Paris, France in 1988.

Mr. Bob Fu-Yuan Lin is the co-founder of Acorn Campus and Acorn Angels, two of the most reputable investment organizations in Asian American community. In addition to having extensive angels and corporate investment expertise with multiple IPOs, he also has more than 20 years of international business start-up, marketing, and management experiences. He is very well known for being the first launching investor of Avanti (IPO ‘95), AltiGen (IPO ‘97) and LightLogic (Sold to Intel for $400M ’01). He is an early investor in Vertex Network (Sold to Mitel for $200M ’99). He is also the co-founder of Pine Photonics (sold to Hitachi/Opnext ’03). With Acorn, Bob was also an investor of AFOP (IPO ’00) and Rapidstream (M&A, ’02). 

Bob is the co-owner and board director of several medium-size manufacturing companies in Asia with a combined number of employees near 4,000. Bob also serves as the Chairman of Mobile Radius, a wireless platform company in California, and on the board of Pine Photonics and Luxnet in Fremont, California, as well as Atonics, a SoC Semiconductor company in Taiwan, plus EPIN Wireless System in Beijing. 

Bob is also the author of an inspiring book “Pursuit of Success & Happiness” and has been asked to write several more books for the next few years. In the past, he had been the lead guitarist and pianist of the rock band “Southern Breed” in Taiwan. 

Bob has been very active in generous community services. He was the Chairman twice in Chinese Association of International Trade (CAIT), Chairman and Board member of Monte Jade Association, Board member of Taiwanese Chamber of Commerce. He has also served both as the Commissioner and the Chairman of Santa Clara County – HsinChu County Commission. Bob has a MSEE degree from University of California at Santa Barbara. He has been very active in community services. 

Mr. William Wittmeyer has 24 years experience in high-technology business and investment management. In 1997 with Ms. Maggie Tham, he founded eXS Network Technologies Sdn. Bhd. to provided innovative communication solutions to service providers in SE Asia. In 2003 he and Ms Tham founded eXS Inc, as a wireless access company developing innovative and cost effective products for developing economies.  

Prior to founding these companies Mr. Wittmeyer was active in technology investing in telecommunications and seminconductors.  He was an early investor in Network Equipment Technologies Inc. UTStarcom, Zoran and IXYS.    

He has a B.Sc. (E. E.) from the Coast Guard Academy and an M.B.A. from Columbia University Graduate School of Business Administration. 

Mr. Henry Wong has resided in China & Silicon Valley for the last 25 years.  From being a Serial Entrepreneur to a Venture Capitalist, Mr. Wong is in a unique position where he can fully utilize his operational experience, investment talent and his Chinese heritage to help and build companies with a global vision.  

In his prior Fund, Crystal Ventures, Mr. Wong was active with portfolio companies including SMIC, LGC Wireless, Infinera, and Exavio. A seasoned angel investor and entrepreneur, Wong has succeeded as the founder, chairman & CEO of SS8 Networks Inc., a world class startup with major R&D operations in Beijing and Ottawa.  Wong was the co-founder of IP Communications, a VoIP Gateway startup which was acquired by RampNet, now a division of Nokia (Nasdaq NOK).  He was also the co-founder, chairman, president & CEO of XaQti Corporation, which merged with Vitesse Semiconductor (a S&P 500, Nasdaq VTSS), and was the co-founder of CNet Technology Inc., now a multi-million dollar public network hardware company. In 1988 he founded Combinet (ISDN Systems), which was sold to Cisco Systems (Nasdaq CSCO) in a pooling of interest stock swap valued at $165 million. His success, experience and leadership are invaluable in his role as an Angel Investor and Serial Entrepreneur in Silicon Valley.  

In 2002, Mr. Wong was nominated, interviewed and was the finalist to the “Entrepreneur of the Year Award”. Mr. Wong is an Advisor to 6 non-profit organizations and is active with community events. In education, Mr. Wong received a B.Sc. degree in Business from University of Utah and a MBA in Telecom Management from Golden Gate University.