Contact Murat Aktihanoglu for event and ticket information.
Thursday, November 20, 2008 from 6:30 PM - 8:30 PM (ET)
At this Entrepreneurs Roundtable, we will again have a very special speaker:
James D. Robinson IV from RRE Ventures.
This will be an interactive session and everyone will get a short introduction, followed by questions answered by Jim. After that we will have pitches from startups to Jim limited to 5 minutes each. Please email me (murat at unype.com) if you would like to pitch your startup to Jim and get instant feedback (first come, first serve).
"Jim Robinson is Co-Founder & Managing Partner of RRE Ventures. He has been active within the technology community for over twenty years as a venture capitalist, banker and entrepreneur.
Since co-founding RRE in late 1994, Jim has been responsible for over thirty technology investments, and currently serves as Director of AdaptiveBlue (semantic personalization) GoMobo (mobile ordering), iCrossing (online marketing technology), Mixed Signals (digital broadcast monitoring), M-Via (mobile remittances), OpenPeak (home information platforms), Orchestria (enterprise compliance/DLP software), SmartPay Jieyin (mobile payments in China), Verified Identity Pass (Clear Card program), Vocera (wireless communications systems), WisdomTree (developer of indexes/ETFs), and is Chairman of Vivre (luxury brand catalog and internet retailer).
While earning his dual degree in Computer Science and Business Administration at Antioch College during the early 1980's, Jim worked as a programmer developing networking software for state government, and later founded and was President of IV Systems Inc., a firm that created custom applications for Unix workstations. In 1986, Mr. Robinson joined JPMorgan & Company, where he spent four years working on technology-related assignments, first within the Global Exposure Management group building risk management systems, and later as an investment banker in the Corporate Finance group. Mr. Robinson earned an MBA from Harvard in 1992, and subsequently joined Hambrecht & Quist Venture Capital in San Francisco. While at H & Q he led investments primarily within the software and communications sectors.
Jim is involved in several non-profit endeavors serving on the Board of Directors of the Federal Law Enforcement Foundation, The New York Software Industry Association (NYSIA), the New York City Investment Fund's Information Technology Group, and as a member of the Advisory Board of the National Association of Drug Abuse Problems. Jim has been a member of the Young President's Organization since 1998."
Our host Joe Daniels (from Fulbright and Jaworski)
will also be answering questions about setting up a venture-funded
startup, funding and other related issues
Please register with your full name for the building security to let you in.
Also optionally, you can sign up at http://groups.google.com/group/entrepreneursroundtable to get notifications about future Entrepreneurs Roundtable events.
best,
Murat
murat@unype.com
http://unype.com
http://unype.com/blog
917 656 9309
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