From Fail to Win: Making it in Silicon Valley
Time: 1:00 PM - 3:00 PM
Room: TBA
Session Description:
Most successful entrepreneurs failed many times before they succeeded. Starting a company today is easier than it's ever been. At the same time, most startups fail. The trick is to fail fast and risk little. Facilitators Sarah Cone '99, Zach Miller-Catlan Larson '97 and Bart Myers '97 will talk you through their failures and successes in starting companies in Silicon Valley and hopefully convince you to try it for yourself!
Facilitator Biographies:
Sarah Cone '99: Sarah Cone is an Associate at Illuminate Ventures, a micro venture capital firm in Silicon Valley investing in enterprise cloud computing. Sarah has more than 13 years experience in high tech, beginning her career at Amazon.com. Later she worked in technology public policy both at the non-profit Public Knowledge and at Google, and was the founder/CEO of a social news start-up. She began her venture capital career at Omidyar Networks (the foundation of Pierre Omidyar, founder of eBay) in the Emerging Technologies Investment Group. Sarah has a JD from U.C. Berkeley. You can follow her on Twitter @sarah_cone.
Zach Miller-Catlin Larson '97: Zach has been fighting in the DotCom wars since 1999. He's been an engineer, a designer, a sysadmin, and a product guy. He was Chief Production Officer at SideReel (acquired 2011) and is now Chief Executive Officer at Threadbare Games where he helps make mobile games for gamers. He's @zachlarson on Twitter and posts frequently on blog.threadbaregames.com.
Bart Myers '97: Bart Myers is an advisor for and investor in early and mid-stage startups as well as founder of SideReel.com. He is currently head of Rovi Corporation's internet properties including: SideReel.com (acquired in 2011), AllMusic.com, DivX.com and AllMovie.com. Bart blogs at bartolah.com and can be reached @bartolah on Twitter.
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