"What they don't teach you at Stanford Business School about raising VC"

Guest Moderator Larry Chiang will be hosting an ALL STAR Panel of VCs to discuss everything you wanted to know about raising venture capital financing for your company. Come meet the people who are funding your future. Reserve your spot now!

Date, Time: Wednesday, 6/16/2010, 630-9pm Location: Dog Patch Labs, Pier 38, San Francisco, CA

The All STAR VC PANEL

Larry Chiang - Duck9 - Hi there, I am Larry Chiang--I had friends who didn't know what I knew about credit card credit scores and decided to do something about it. I started a business out of my dorm room by collecting Deep Underground Credit Knowledge (DUCK) into a controversial site: www.Duck9.com and preaching it to sorority houses. I am very good in front of a room full of women.

Duck9 breaks-down the mysterious FICO credit score and graduates people with a score in the 90th percentile. Fair Isaac hates me but the holes in the credit system are meant for smart, young, savvy college students to benefit from.

I also scandalously wrote a sequel to a book I did not write... that became a NY Times bestseller: "What They Don't Teach You At Stanford Business School". It's a book about sales, entrepreneurship and character compassing people. My mentor, Mark McCormack wrote, "What They Don't Teach You At Harvard Business School" that was a bestseller for over 10 years in 1983. His book was awesome and helped me a TON.

My writing centers around mentorship: whether you’re building a business or improving your credit score, it is easier to do with a mentor.

One of my proudest achievements was to testify in Congress on behalf of the financial services industry. Congressman Tom Campbell also wrote the foreword for my last book, "Internet Marketing Secrets". For fun, I crash campus gyms to play basketball, write, coach entrepreneurs, and sneak into dorm cafeterias. Invite me to your house for dinner and I’ll entertain with stories of credit… my email is chiang9@duck9.com

Jeff Clavier - SoftTech VC - Based in Palo Alto, California, Jean-Francois “Jeff” Clavier is the Founder and Managing Partner of SoftTech VC, one of the most active seed stage investors in Web 2.0 startups. Since 2004, Jeff has invested in more than 70 consumer Internet companies in areas like social media, communities, search, gaming or consumer infrastructure, almost exclusively in Silicon Valley. With over 20 years of operational, entrepreneurial and venture capital experience, Jeff is able to add relevant perspective and value to his companies as they grow from inception to maturity, and hopefully, success.

In 2007, Jeff was recognized as one of the 13 “Web 2.0 King Makers” by (late) Business 2.0, and in 2008, BusinessWeek named him one of "The 25 Most Influential People on the Web". He is often noted for his investments in categories such as “passion-centric communities” or online gaming, or for having sold a number of his Web 2.0 startups to the likes of Yahoo, AOL, Intuit or more recently Twitter.

Jonathan Ebinger - BlueRun Ventures - Jonathan Ebinger is a Partner at BlueRun Ventures and is based in Menlo Park. He focuses on Internet and mobile opportunities.

Jonathan has 15 years of marketing and finance experience in the telecommunications industry. Previous experience includes Vice President of Marketing for Qwest Communications, and senior level positions at Bell Atlantic Internet Solutions and MCI Communications. In addition, Jonathan founded and successfully exited Simply Savings, Inc., an Internet shopping service. Some of Jonathan's current companies include Fwix, Motally, Coupa, and Payvment.

He received his M.B.A. from Darden Graduate School of Business Administration at the University of Virginia, and holds a B.S. in Finance from Virginia Tech.

Andy Fillat - Leapfrog Ventures - Andy Fillat has been a technology investor for 19 years, including 16 with Advent International Corp., where he ran the venture group for 8 of those years and was a member of the firm's inaugural executive committee. He has been a principal investor in over 40 companies, and been active in nearly 100 investment deals. He has 17 IPOs among his portfolio, which includes companies in communications, software, services, semiconductor, and wireless areas. He has served on 33 Boards including five public companies.

Prior to joining Advent, Andy spent five years consulting to venture firms and their portfolio companies, was Chief Technology Officer at Fidelity Investments, and was CEO of an early-stage database marketing company.

Andy has an S.B. and S.M. from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where his masters thesis was the invention of the relational database. He graduated with Tau Beta Pi, Eta Kappa Nu, and Sigma Xi honors. Andy has also earned an MBA degree from Harvard.

Owen Thomas - Executive Editor of Venture Beat, Editorial Emcee - Owen Thomas is the executive editor of VentureBeat. His career has ranged from Suck.com to the Red Herring, from Time to Valleywag, but he's consistently been interested in the transformative effects of innovation on business and culture. Also, he loves you but has an odd way of showing it.