VC/Entrepreneur Workshop
Session Two: Early Stage of Financing
If you were an entrepreneur-to-be, you had laid out a solid business plan about your new startup, and you were promised that your future company will be funded. So, what is the next step? What will you do with the seed money? What are the alternatives other than seed? Will Series A preferred stock benefit your new company and help it expand? What legal issues you need to be aware of? There are so many financial strategies and questions you need to understand and address to ensure your company has a great start and healthy grow. To continue our very successful first entrepreneur workshop in April we are now presenting to our SVCWireless members the sequel:
Early Stage Financing. It's no nonsense, down to the point workshop
that will address many aspects of financing issues you would be
facing. The VC/Entrepreneur Workshops will bring real VC?s to your
aide, and they will walk you through all the critical stages toward
your success of a new venture.
In
the 2nd workshop of the VC/Entrepreneur Series, our speaker, Mr.
Greguras, will cover the basics of seed and Series A financings.
Sample term sheets will be used to illustrate current financing
issues. Topics covered will include not limited to:
- Preparing your corporation for investment
- Role of a term sheet
- Seed financing alternatives
- Sample capitalization tables
- Calculation of pre and post
- Money valuations
- Impact of size of option pool
- Typical Series A valuations and financing terms
- Control issues
Date: Saturday, May 21, 2005
Time: 9:00 am - 11:30 am
Venue: Carnegie Mellon University - West Coast Campus
Building 23 MS 23-11
Moffett Field, CA 94035
Directions and maps
Language: English
Agenda:
9:00 - 9:30 Registration
9:30 - 11:30 am Presentation and Q&A
Fee:
Regular member: FREE
Associate member and non-member:$25 RSVP, $30 at the door
RSVP:
rsvp@svcwireless.org with the following subject line:
"5/21_Entrepreneur-2: Your Name"
Speakers:
Fred Greguras of Fenwick & West LLP focuses on strategic legal issues for software, semiconductor-related and life sciences companies. His practice includes start-up issues and financings
in both domestic and international transactions. He has also been a venture capitalist and a general counsel and CFO for a startup.
Fred Greguras, Of Counsel, Corporate Group
Telephone: 650.335.7341
Facsimile: 650.938.5200
fgreguras@fenwick.com
Henry H. Wong founded Diamond TechVentures, a China-Focus Venture Fund. He brings more than two decades of experience creating and establishing successful companies that have included SS8 Networks, Inc., IP Communications, XaQti Corporation (merged with Vitesse Semiconductor, S&P 500), CNet Technology, Inc. (multi-million-dollar public network hardware company), and Combinet (ISDN systems, sold to Cisco Systems at an estimated $165 million value). Mr. Wong had advised or invested in Gabriel Venture Partners, Onset; and Garage Technology Venture, Authosis Semiconductor Fund, Woodside Fund. Wong will work closely with Diamond TechVentures partners in Beijing, Shanghai and Hong Kong, China, Palo Alto, California, to identify solid, discontinuity technology investments that will include enabling technology, infrastructure and communications, and vertical applications with focus in China. Mr. Wong and his partners will look specifically at companies that demonstrate trans-Pacific operational, development or market opportunity.
