Oakland Forward and Bryan Parker

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Last activity: 14.11.2014

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Nov 14, 2014	Go-to-market strategies for startups	Emergence Capital's Sean Jacobsohn gives a workshop class at Splash Oakland Sean Jacobsohn, Partner at Emergence Capital joined us in our Palm Tree room during Vator Splash Oakland for workshops presented by entrepreneurs and venture c...
Nov 14, 2014	Care.com's Dave Krupinski: 5 lessons for marketplaces	Co-founder Krupinski's Lessons Learned at Splash Oakland 2014 Dave Krupinski, Co-founder and CTO of Care.com, joined us at Vator Splash Oakland to share five lessons he's learned about building marketplaces. He should know. Care.c...
Nov 7, 2014	How do micro VCs (sub-$50M) differentiate their value?	Several hundred have emerged, what do their brands stand for? How do they attract LPs, startups? Alastair Goldfisher of Thomson Reuters joined us as moderator of the panel: "The Explosion of Micro VCs (sub-$50M)". How do they diff...
Oct 27, 2014	Ali Partovi on the time for startups to diversify	Serial entrepreneur, angel investor shares lessons learned at Splash Oakland Ali Partovi, serial entrepreneur and angel investor joined us at Vator Splash Oakland, to share his Founders' Lessons Learned in this Splash Talk. Partovi say...
Oct 21, 2014	The virtues of bootstrapping your startup	Naveen Jain with founders of Fark, Driversed.com and Backblaze Naveen Jain, Founder of Immunity Project, joined us as moderator for the panel: "The virtues of bootstrapping" at Vator Splash Oakland. On the panel were Gleb Budman, ...
Aug 8, 2014	The future of Bitcoin	Founders of GoCoin, FreshPay, Expresscoin and CryptoCorp discuss At Vator Splash Oakland, we took at look at the future of Bitcoin: A look at challenges and investment opportunities across this fast-growing market segment from leading found...
Aug 6, 2014	What's working, what's not at accelerator programs?	StartX, Alchemist, Berkeley Skydeck, Sfuncube share best practices It started with Y Combinator and then TechStars. Now that there's accelerators emerging every day, what's working and what's not? Panelists included Cameron T...
Aug 4, 2014	When and how to scale your startup	Scale Venture Partners' Sharon Wienbar on not prematurely scaling Sharon Wienbar, Partner at Scale Venture Partners, gave a workshop on when to scale and how to avoid scaling prematurely. This was her talk at Vator Splash Oakland. Scal...
Aug 1, 2014	Watch: Tim Draper on government moving toward slavery	Draper's provocative remarks on the economy and the Six Californias idea Not one to ever hold back his opinions, Tim Draper, venture capitalist and founder of Draper University, boldly stated that the government was "moving toward...
Jul 30, 2014	How to be an early-stage investor	From SoftTech VC, Intel Capital, Bain Capital... how do top investors make decision? How is the landscape changing for early-stage investors? Given the influx of seed-stage financing and the dearth of Series A investments, are there opportu...
Jul 28, 2014	The virtues of bootstrapping your startup	What did it take for these startups to get started without venture capital? With venture financing all around, why did these startups not go through with venture financing rounds? Some didn't have a choice, until they got bigger and at...
Jul 8, 2014	Video: The Future of the Internet of Things	How will the Internet of Things change the world? Rob Coneybeer, Greg Winner and Gilad Meiri discuss The Internet of Things is one of the most exciting, and fastest growing, sectors in the tech industry. In just a few years, all of the devi...
Jun 25, 2014	What's in store for Ed Tech?	Panelists Tim Brady, Wayee Chu, Shauntel Poulson, and Caryn Voskuil weigh in As classrooms across the country are ditching overhead projectors and textbooks in favor of iPads and laptops, education is more high-tech than ever before. What&#...
Jun 25, 2014	Watch: MC Hammer on technology and startups	At Splash Oakland, investor Erik Moore sits down with the rap artist-entrepreneur Erik Moore, Founder of Oakland-based venture firm Base VC, sat down with serial entrepreneur and entertainer MC Hammer for a Fireside Chat at Splash Oakland. ...
Jun 24, 2014	City & state accelerators boost their local economies	Launch Tennessee, Arch Grants, The Last Mile share best practices How are cities and states working with accelerators to create jobs in their local economies? At Splash Oakland, we brought together three accelerators changing the way cities...
Jun 24, 2014	Watch: Blue Bottle's James Freeman & Tony Conrad	At Splash Oakland, True Ventures' Conrad sits down with the founder of Blue Bottle One of the rising star entrepreneurs in the East Bay is James Freeman, Founder and CEO of Blue Bottle Coffee, a specialty coffee roaster that's rai...
Jun 12, 2014	Watch: Danny Kennedy's awesome Keynote about solar	At Splash Oakland, Kennedy gave a convincing presentation about the future of solar Danny Kennedy, co-founder and President of Sungevity, took the stage at Vator Splash Oakland to share his very provocative and convincing case for why solar...
Jun 10, 2014	Watch: Bambi Francisco on Oakland's emerging tech scene	'Together we can shape it and create it in an inclusive way' Vator's founder and CEO Bambi Francisco kicked off Vator Splash Oakland with a slide show, showing how the Pacbell ballpark in downtown San Francisco ignited that c...
Jun 8, 2014	Watch: Mitch Kapor and Bambi Francisco interview	Kapor talks about how diversity can transform entrepreneurship and tech innovation Mitch Kapor, a tech pioneer in the personal computer era and now investor and philanthropist, took the stage to sit down with Vator founder and CEO Bambi Fra...
Jun 6, 2014	Watch: The Future of Healthtech panel at Splash Oakland	Investors and experts weigh in on the future of health tech With Apple debuting its new Healthkit app and a health-tracking iWatch on the horizon, what lies in store for the future of Health tech? Some top investors weigh in on the Future o...
Jun 5, 2014	Video: OppSites winning pitch at Splash Oakland	OppSites won the judges' vote at our first ever Splash Oakland event in May! At last month's inaugural Vator Splash Oakland, 15 companies competed against each other for the top spot. In the end it was Oakland-based OppSites that ...
May 8, 2014	Back to the Roots and Rockbot win OakTown competition	Judges were split between these two rockin' Oakland-based startups For the first time in Vator Splash history, we have a tie for the winner. The judges of the OakTown Tech Startup Competition—which was specifically held for East Bay st...
May 7, 2014	Danny Kennedy: solar is the backbone of technology	The Sungevity co-founder says that "Oakland is the heart of the future of solar" Danny Kennedy, co-founder of Sungevity spoke at Vator Splash Oakland . Thanks to our Vator Splash Oakland video sponsor, Oakland Forward and Brian Pa...
May 5, 2014	10 Reasons to go to Vator Splash Oakland	Here's why 700 people have already registered to attend In the last decade, VC money shifted north from Silicon Valley to San Francisco. In other words, Silicon Valley moved north. SF accounted for 36% of all venture dollars invested i...

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