At war with investors? Panel Discussion on VCs/Founders conflicts

Elena Gusakovais the Founder ofAstra Global, a global business development company. She has close to ten years of business development experience, helping leading consulting companies and UBS, Zurich to find new clients among investors, business owners and high net worth individuals. Throughout her career, she conducted over 100 top tier client events, focused on increasing business revenues. She initiated a project at UBS aimed at converting events into revenue generating activities, which was approved and implemented by the bank. She regularly advises other companies and her recent consulting client grew their revenues 3x in 4 years.  At Astra Global, Elena focuses on facilitating collaboration between startups, investors, and corporations. Elena also advises startups on how to approach investors and make the first contact.Prior to career in business development, Elena spent eight years working as a M&A lawyer at private equity funds, leading cross border deals with the total deal amount exceeding $600M. She has a deep understanding on investment processes, investors main concerns, and is an experienced negotiator. Elena has graduated from Academy of Labour and Social Relations, Law faculty, Moscow, with highest honours, and holds EMBA from Columbia and London Business Schools.Victoria Yampolsky, CFAis the Founder and President ofThe Startup Station, an educational and consulting company committed to help startups be successful and get funded faster. She focuses on creating detailed strategic roadmaps and converting them into credible financials and valuations. Specifically, she helps entrepreneurs correctly translate their business plan into a financial plan, evaluate the financial feasibility of different initiatives, credibly present their company to investors, and use their financial model to drive the business forward.To-date, she has worked with more than 100 startups one-on-one and more than 1,000 founders have taken The Startup Station's  finance courses and learned the basics of accounting, valuation, financial modeling, and startup financing.Previously, Victoria worked for Deutsche Bank and was a technology consultant with CapGemini's Financial Services Division.  Victoria holds a Bachelor's Degree, Cum Laude, in Computer Science, with a minor in Mathematics, from Cornell University and an MBA, with honors, from Columbia Business School. Victoria is also on the Advisory Board of the Computing and Information Science (CIS) Department of Cornell University.

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Efficient strategies how to manage VC and founders' conflict for mutual success.

<a href="https://astraglobal.org/" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Astra Global</a>, a global business development company, <a href="https://www.goldventuresinvestment.com/gvi-gold-ventures-incubator" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">GVI Ventures Investments</a>, <a href="https://thestartupstation.com/" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">and The Startup Station</a>, an education and financial advisory firm, present a panel discuss on: At war with investors? What does a founder need to know about VCs‘ business objectives and risk appetite?We believe that it’s crucial to have an open discussion about the ambitions and objectives of VCs and the entrepreneurs in connection with each funding round.Mutual understanding and clarity will bring more productive communication and successful and long term relationships between the founder and VC, hopefully leading to an IPO, or alternative mutually acceptable solution.During the investors panel:Alexey Alexanov, General Partner, Cabra VCOscar Ramos, Partner &amp; Managing Director of Chinaccelerator (SOSV)Tobias Bauer, Principal, Blockchain Founders FundAman Ghei, Partner, Finch CapitalChristian Cameir, Managing Partner, Sustany CapitalBill Liao, General Partner, SOSVwill share their thoughts on the following topics.Topics: <ul><li>Why do conflicts of VCs and founders arise? How can VCs and founders&#x27; interests misalign after fundraising? (What’s VCs’ risk appetite, and how is this different from what founders expect?)</li><li>One bid for a founder instead of a portfolio of companies for VCs. How does it make a difference?</li><li>Great home runs instead of nice small returns: why VCs may not accept a sweet but small strategic buyer</li><li>Write off or not write off: when the decision about writing off a company is taken.</li><li>What if VC has “a competitor” in the portfolio?</li><li>Should conflicts be managed?</li><li>Can both sides turn a conflict into a win-win?</li><li>If conflict isn&#x27;t handled: an opportunity cost</li><li>Real life cases when the founders and VCs may have different views and how they were solved.</li></ul>SpeakersAlexey Alexanov, General Partner, Cabra VC Co-founder and General Partner at Cabra VC with more than 15 years of work experience across various industries in business development, partnership and enterprise sales. He focuses on investing in post-seed/Series A subscription-based companies in the US. Alexey holds 6 board roles including Board member at Improvado, XiX, Welltory. Mentor at 500Startups and Alchemist accelerator. Oscar Ramos, Managing Director, Chinaccelerator (SOSV)Oscar Ramos, an entrepreneur-turned-investor, is the Partner &amp; Managing Director of Chinaccelerator, the cross-border internet arm of venture capital fund SOSV ($900m AUM) , where Oscar invests broadly across enterprise SaaS and cross-border internet startups, manages the accelerator program, and serves on the Board of Directors of several portfolio companies. At his current role, Oscar has made investment decisions on and helped accelerate the growth of 100+ startups. Tobias Bauer, Principal, Blockchain Founders Fund, Tobias Bauer, is the Principal at Blockchain Founders Fund which invests in and venturebuilds top-tier startups. He is a Startup Mentor for APX, PlugAndPlay, NUMA New York, Alchemist Accelerator, and a Venture Partner of Republic. He worked in the investment team of Chinaccelerator, one of the global elite accelerator programs operated by the venture fund SOSV with $907M+ AUM in China. Aman Ghei, Partner, Finch Capital Aman joined Finch Capital from Nordeus, one of Europe’s leading mobile game developers, where he started their London studio and was a product manager for new titles and Top Eleven, a game played by 150m users. Prior to Nordeus, Aman was at Facebook, where he led efforts in their mobile partnerships, distribution and ad network initiatives. Before joining Facebook, Aman was an investor with Accel Partners, where he was actively involved in various technology investments including Spotify, HouseTrip and Hailo. He was also a board observer at Supercell and Space Ape Games.Christian Kameir, Managing Partner, Sustany CapitalSustains Capital is a thesis-driven venture capital firm investing in decentralized finance, money, and legal technologies. Chris has been a tech entrepreneur since the internet dial-up days and led the merger of two of the earliest internet service providers in Europe. In 2000 he moved to California to start a technology venture fund. Chris studied classical literature, is certified in neurolinguistic programming, and a graduate of Muenster&#x27;s School of Law. He is a board member at OpenTravel, and lectures at Harvard and The Frankfurt School of Finance and Management. Chris writes and speaks on topics ranging from high-tech investing to decentralized finance, identity and blockchain. Bill Liao, General Partner, SOSVBill Liao is a Chinese-Australian-Irish entrepreneur, investor, diplomat, business mentor, author, passionate leader and speaker, with a distinguished record in business development and community activism. Co-founder of the CoderDojo movement and of Weforest, his career in tech and business encompasses two unicorn companies and launching the world’s first bio-tech accelerator, RebelBio. He is a general partner of SOSV, a $750m venture capital fund and founder of the upcoming SOSV Momentum Pre-accelerator program.Agenda:5:00pm - 5:10pm CET: Opening remarks, Astra Global/The Startup Station5:10pm - 6:10pm CET: Panel discussion 6:10pm - 6:30pm CET: Q&amp;A session Pricing: 1. General attendance USD 30, includes participation in the webinar. 2. General attendance with recording USD 39, includes participation in the webinar, Q&amp;A, and recording afterwards.3. Full implementation package USD 338 Includes:<ul><li>Step plan on how to conduct a successful board meeting</li><li>Effective board meeting agenda</li><li>1-hour review of your current term sheet and/or current corporate documents; and advice on how to improve them to avoid any possible corporate conflicts and/ or how to handle current corporate conflict, if any; </li><li>5 startups have a chance to be selected for the introduction to Astra Global 500+ VCs according to your industry and stage, provided you have filled in the survey <a href="https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1l1Knes7telCT78OWIOkVNARXub6gyuHwWMYYy0yyW1Y/edit" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">here</a> </li></ul>

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