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Panel: VC Secrets – Handling Failures

12:00 – 12:45p

As entrepreneurs, you’re generally dealing with just one company at a time; perhaps you’re more experienced and are an adviser to handful of others.  You’ll rarely be dealing with more than one struggling company at once.  Investors, on the other hand, handle the highs and lows of dozens of companies at a time, and are often the ones who need to make the difficult decision: when do we let it go and how do we do it without losing too many assets. Lets learn from OPP (Other People’s Pain) and gather up strategies when your start-up ship is taking on water.  These VCs are ready to share just what’s gone wrong, how they handled it, and what you should expect if it happens to you.
Moderated by Larry Chiang, who led one of the best panels at SXSW08, and who has teetered on bankruptcy a half dozen times since starting UCMS.com out of his dorm room.

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Panelist Bios

Larry Chiang

Hi I am Larry Chiang. Nice to meet you.
I write about entrepreneurship and sometimes venture capital. I wrote about “9 VCs You Don’t Wanna Meet” and it launched my book project: “What They Don’t Teach You At Stanford Business School”. I blog at Business Week where I take people behind the scenes for an industry insider look at how business is done. My book is a sequel to a book I did not write, “What They Don’t Teach You At Harvard Business School” written by my mentor Mark McCormack. In it he talks about selling, entrepreneurship and reading people. For money, I run Duck9. It helps college students with their FICO credit score.

Christine Herron; Principal, First Round Capital

Christine Herron is a Principal with First Round Capital, an early-stage venture capital firm. Previously, Christine was a director at Omidyar Network, where she developed the Media practice strategy. Prior to Omidyar Network, Christine held operational roles with Mission Research, NetObjects, and Microsoft, and was the founder and CEO of Mercury2. She started as an investor with Geocapital Partners, where she funded early Internet and network infrastructure businesses including Netcom and AXON Networks. Christine earned degrees from both Stanford University and Columbia University.

David Hornik; Partner, August Capital

For more than a decade, David has worked with technology startups throughout the software sector. In 2000, David joined August Capital to invest broadly in information technology companies, with a focus on enterprise application and infrastructure software, as well as consumer facing software and services.
Prior to joining August Capital, David was an intellectual property and corporate attorney at Venture Law Group and Perkins Coie. In his legal practice, David represented high tech startups in all aspects of their formation, financing, and operations, including the likes of Yahoo!, Evite (Ticketmaster) and Ofoto (Kodak). Before that, David was a litigator in New York City at Cravath, Swaine & Moore.
David has an eclectic educational background. He holds an AB in Computer Music from Stanford University, an M.Phil in Criminology from Cambridge University and a JD from Harvard Law School.

Jonathan Teo; Partner, Baseline Ventures

Jonathan Teo has spent his career helping companies build distributed engineering organizations that enable technical teams and infrastructure to expand and scale globally. Most recently he served as Engineering PM in the Search Properties and Enterprise Products groups at Google, and was an early member of its Strategy and Business Operations team. Prior to joining Google, he worked at Bain & Company, helping a Fortune 100 client optimize and grow its technical support organization. He also served as a consultant to Intuit, Electronic Arts and other technology companies, spent two years in the Republic of Singapore Air Force and was a founding member of a software development group focused on developing security protocols and analyzers. Jonathan currently holds patented work in link layer security protocols. Education: M.S. from Stanford University. B.S. in Electrical Engineering from Sydney University, Sydney, Australia, with research work completed at Cornell University.

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