7 Essential steps to a successful start up:
Avoid 10 common legal mistakes made by entrepreneurs
BizEducation Workshops is hosting this event.
Led by Naeem Zafar, Silicon Valley veteran and Haas School of Business faculty member at University of California, Berkeley
Date: Saturday 19, 2009
Time: 1 PM to 6 PM
Place: BlankSpaces Conference Room
5405 Wilshire Blvd., Los Angeles, Ca 90036
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This session will focus on how an entrepeneur gets his or her first few customers and how a sales process can be developed. The session will provide 5 golden rules for entrepeneurs to jumpstart their sales and 2 common mistakes that can be deadly. The sales process startes eariler than you may think. Identifying customers and make them a part of your product definition can be vitally important. Speaker (Naeem Zafar) will share his mistakes and lessons learned during his six startups.
Date: September 23, 2009
Time: 6:00 pm
Location: Sun Microsystems (Santa Clara Campus)
How to position your company in today's environment for funding!
Naeem will be moderating at the Silicon Valley China Wireless Conference in Mountain View.
When: Saturday September 26,2009
A workshop series for entrepreneurs with the next big idea
Jumpstart your startup with a new series from Women 2.0 to help make your business idea a reality. Jumper cables in the trunk? Check. Gas? Check. Brakes? All good.
“Jumpstart Your Startup” consists of five two-hour Thursday classes in Palo Alto and two full-day Saturday classes in San Francisco. Workshops utilize discussion forums and working sessions.
Discussion sessions will be run by Naeem Zafar, a faculty member at the University of California at Berkeley’s Haas School of Business, startup veteran, and advisor to entrepreneurs.
Hands-on working sessions will be guided by successful women executives, VCs, and entrepreneurs providing “from the trenches” feedback and insight.
Naeem will be at NASSCOM Product Conclave 2009 “POSITIONING TO WIN”
Oct 27-28, 2009, Bangalore
The NASSCOM Product Conclave is the flagship event for software product companies in India, designed to put “Made in India” products firmly on the world map. The Conclave will bring together 700 players in the product ecosystem – partners, investors, strategic system integrators, business leaders, analysts and industry thought leaders, in informal and interactive sessions. The Product Conclave will address all the aspects of “Positioning to Win” in detail during two days of thought-provoking sessions and keynotes by Global Industry gurus and trailblazers, panel discussions, workshops, business expo, power elevator pitch sessions , match making and more
Naeem will be the Plenary Panel Moderator for the session “VC Funding versus Bootstrapping” on Oct 27.
Seven Steps to a Successful Life Science Startup
Naeem will be outlining the steps needed for entrepeneurs to launch their startups. He will be answering two questions that face any entrepeneur; "When do I know I am ready to quit my day-job?" and "Am I investor ready?"
This presentation will be a high energy look at the overall process of starting up and what it takes to get attention from investors interested in life science companies.
Date: November 3, 2009
Location: Sunnnyvale City Coucinel Chambers
456 W. Olive
Sunnyvale, Ca (Across the street from Sunnyvale Public Library)
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Workshop: Understanding Venture Fundraising
OPEN Events :
This workshop will deal with questions of how VCs operate, what they look for, how be to be VC-ready, and what to do when you are not ready to raise money from VCs. It will answer your VC-related questions about what options entrepreneurs have to get their ideas funded in the current environment. The workshop will provide a list of dos and don’ts for interactions with and presentations to the VCs.
When: April 8th, 7-9 PM
Where: Plug & Play Center, 440 N. Wolfe Rd., Sunnyvale, CA
Naeem will be speaking at TiE annual conference in Santa Clara CA on Friday May 15th at 1:30 pm. Check out this session at tiecon.org/home/program
Getting Your First Few Customers and Building Your Sales Org
