Speeding Up Venture Growth – Workshops on 21 Jan

Get a chance to learn from and mingle with high profile entrepreneurs from Singapore and Switzerland. Especially since the individuals from Switzerland were flown in just for this event, you should not miss this rare opportunity. One day after the ACE BlueSky exchange, the Sandbox Network, Swissnex and Nanyang Technopreneurship Center will bring to you a day filled with workshops by visiting entrepreneurs and speakers.

Event Details

Date: Thursday, 21st January 2010
Time: 9am – 5.30pm
Venue: Nanyang Technopreneurship Center

Register here.

The 5 Workshops

1. Building and Managing an Advisory Board by Antoine Verdon
2. Negotiating with VCs & Corporate Investors by Dominik Grolimund
3. Building and managing a professional network by Guillaume Beauverd
4. Selling to large corporations by Darius Cheung
5. Getting the critical decisions right by Adrian Chye

1. Building and Managing an Advisory Board by Antoine Verdon

Antoine Verdon works in Zurich as CEO of Sandbox and Global Head of Community. He has a Master of Law from the University of Fribourg, Switzerland. Passionate about politics, he was with 20 the youngest member ever of the Parliament of Lausanne, his home city. For Sandbox, a young Swiss start-up, he has put together a remarkable advisory board and he now came to Singapore to unfold the mystery of how to find the best board members possible.

2. Negotiating with VCs & Corporate Investors by Dominik Grolimund

Dominik Grolimund co-founder and CEO of Wuala, Swiss, is 29 years old and studied computer science at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH Zurich). When raising capital for Wuala, he negotiated with most of the large IT firms and talked to most of the well known VCs in Europe, Boston and the Silicon Valley. He will share his thoughts on presenting business ideas in an investor friendly way.

3. Building and managing a professional network by Guillaume Beauverd

CEO of G2 Ventures (an early state venture investment company), Guillaume is a serial entrepreneur and investor. At the age of 19 he co-founded Intermed Communication and Technologies, a small web agency which developed an innovative content management system. In 2006 he founded Trace Golf SA, a technology start-up developing a breakthrough integrated tracking technology for golf. Since then he has been an activist investor in early stage start ups. Recent investments include Poken, ioVox and Doodski. Guillaume masters the art of professional networking and managing a social network and is delighted to teach you how to accelerate your networking success.

4. Selling to large corporations by Darius Cheung

Co-founder of tenCube, Darius Cheung studied Electrical and Computer Engineering at NUS in Singapore. In 2008 Darius has been named one of Asia’s most promising Young Entrepreneurs by businessweek. His company tenCube is a tech start-up in the mobile security space, that just successfully closed negotioations with SingTel and Nokia, two of the world’s most important heavyweights in the mobile industry. Darius will share his experience and teach you how to get your own deals done.

5. Getting the critical decisions right by Adrian Chye

Adrian is general manager at Media Freaks. He graduated with an Honours Degree in Engineering (Computer Engineering) and also holds a Degree of Master of Science in Technopreneurship and Innovation, obtained jointly from Nanyang Technological University and University of Washington. The company has successfully secured a significant funding round and is poised to succeed. Growing a business is about taking risks and making choices. In this workshop,the participants will come to appreciate how one decision can have an direct/indirect impact on the future growth of the company. In that sense, there isn’t really a right or wrong decision. Participants who are interested in the digital media space would find this workshop most interesting.

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