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Free Reception and First Class
Come to our free reception on Monday, August 12, from 5:00 pm to 6:30 pm at nestGSV. Meet other entrepreneurs and people in the startup ecosystem. Stay and attend the first class for free!
The Course
Learn how to put together the building blocks of a startup, fromidea to development, business models, selling, finding customers,execution, legal issues, and raising money. This overview coursewill examine how to manage these challenges. Through real lifeexamples, discussions, and guest speakers, you will come awaywith valuable tools to improve the chances of building a successfulstartup. This class is highly interactive.
Sessions cover topics in:
* Company Formation
* The Team
* Market and Opportunity
* Customer, Product, and Intellectual Property
* Business Models
* Go-to-Market Strategy and Sales 101
* Financials
* Raising Money
* The 10 to 15 Magic Slides
Eight Monday evening sessions from 6:00 to 8:30 pm (except for Monday, August 12, when class will run from 6:30 pm to 8:30 pm). No class on Monday, September 2.
Students may attend the classes live or by videoconference.
Guest Speakers for Monday, August 12:
Kayvan Alikhani, Co-founder and CEO of PassBan, and Former CEO of Litescape Technologies
Kayvan Alikhani is the Founder of Passban, which was recently acquired by RSA. PassBan created Passboard, the mobile device solution for securing devices and websites. Prior to founding PassBan, Kayvan was the CTO and CEO of Litescape Technologies. Kayvan has over 20 years of experience in software product development in telecommunications and other technology industries. He holds a Bachelors of Electrical Engineering from Tehran University.
Hal Friedman, Partner at Greenstein, Rogoff, Olsen & Co., LLP CPA's
For the past 30 years, Hal has been working as a tax professional and lawyer serving the greater Palo Alto area. His practice experience spans all areas of taxation including closely held corporations and their shareholders, individuals, expatriates and nonresident aliens, and professional practices. Hal holds a bachelor's degree in Accounting from Pennsylvania State University and a Juris Doctorate from Stanford Law School.
Facilitators: Douglas Y. Park Douglas Y. Park specializes in problems that cut across corporategovernance, corporate and securities law, and strategy. As a Partnerat Rimon, PC, he helps entrepreneurs, companies, boards, andinvestors address complex situations that implicate both businessand legal issues. He has taught Starting Startups and Mergers andAcquisitions at Stanford University. Doug received a PhD in Businessfrom Stanford Graduate School of Business, AB from HarvardCollege, and a JD from University of Michigan Law School.
“Doug brings to the courses extensive international teaching experiences and real-world experience as a business law practitioner with Startups and established businesses here in Silicon Valley.”
Manoj Fernando Manoj Fernando brings over 20 years of US and global experience asan entrepreneur and executive in software, hardware & mobiletechnologies to Thinktomi. Having founded and grown venturebacked companies, he has the proven ability to lead, execute strategy, drive global revenue, manage cross-functional teams,innovate, and build companies.
“Manoj was very effective in his teachings by bringing actual life scenarios to the class with technology and business experience. Leaders from within the technology industry came and gave their presentations about either their new startup’s company their successes and their failure and lessons learned.”
Thinktomi provides education in innovative thinking, transformational methodologies, entrepreneurship, business education, and field acceleration that is concise, high-impact, and interactive to help individuals or companies to build, launch and scale a company. Thinktomi focuses on experiential learning delivering content via live, facilitated classes with thought leaders and practitioners who have built successful businesses, law practices, investment funds, and social enterprises in Silicon Valley and beyond. The company is guided by its mission to increase accessibility to high-impact entrepreneurship and business education to people of all ages and backgrounds, while growing a network of Thinktomi thinkers and doers across globe. For more information, visit www.thinktomi.com or contact us at info@thinktomi.com.
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