The New Realities of Funding Early Stage Companies: The Good News, the Bad, and the Alternatives

This event will officially launch the HBS Angels program in Southern California, and the marquee HBS alumni panel includes Raulee Marcus, Sean Jacobsohn, and Nate Redmond.

Wednesday, February 23rd @ 6:30pm
Hyatt Regency Century Plaza, 2025 Avenue Of The Stars, Los Angeles, CA 90067

Overview:
As an entrepreneur, one of the most important decisions you will make is how to get funded. You may think that you take what you can get… but no, not true!  You have more choices and control than you think.
 
 
Confirmed Speakers:
Harvard Business School alumni including:
    •    Raulee Marcus (Tech Coast Angels member and co-lead investor for Green Dot)
    •    Sean Jacobsohn (co-founder of HBS Angels and VP of Channel Management, Cornerstone OnDemand)
    •    Nate Redmond (Managing Partner, Rustic Canyon Partners)
 
 
Logistics:
Date: Wednesday, Feb 23
Time: 6:30pm networking, 7:30pm panel followed by Q&A
Where: Hyatt Regency Century Plaza
Early Bird Registration through Feb 21: $25 for HBSASC and Harvard Club members, $40 for non-members
Registration After Feb 21: $45 for all attendees
 
 
REGISTER NOW!!
 
 
Speaker Bios:
Raulee Marcus is an active angel investor and the president of Pinnacle Management, a marketing consultancy.  Raulee has a record of leading consumer product companies to efficient growth in revenue and profit within highly competitive industries, and she is regarded as a branding and go-to-market specialist.  
 
Raulee is a member of Tech Cost Angels, the largest angel investor group in the United States.  At TCA she was co-lead investor in Green Dot, a financial services company whose 2010 IPO generated more than a 100X return for its original angel investors.  Previously, Raulee was a C-level executive at Gillette, Colgate, Neutrogena, and several early stage companies.  She represented Neutrogena at Harvard Business School's AMP.
 
Sean Jacobsohn has been an alliances and sales executive in the technology-enabled business services space since 1999. He is presently VP of Channel Management at Cornerstone OnDemand, a human capital management software-as-a-service provider, which filed an S-1 for a proposed IPO in September 2010. It has grown from 300,000 to 4.25 million subscribers, the third most of any software-as-a-service firm in the world, during his tenure.
 
Previously, Sean was VP Sales and Partner Development at WageWorks, a leading provider of consumer-directed spending solutions that grew from $3 million to $82 million during his 4 year tenure. He spent over 3 years at Elance, the world’s largest marketplace of contractors, which sold its software unit to Click Commerce (CKCM). He also has held finance positions at Major League Baseball and The Prudential Realty Group.
 
Sean is co-President and co-founder of HBS Angels, a founding board member of ecoReserve, advisor for Crosscut Ventures, and member of the HBS Alumni Board.
 
Nate Redmond is a managing partner of Rustic Canyon Partners, where he combines a decade of experience as an entrepreneur, venture capitalist and strategic advisor with a keen interest in what’s next to help emerging companies create breakthrough products, services and value. Some of his most recent investments include Gaikai, Savings.com, Deca and Docstoc.??Before joining Rustic Canyon, Nate worked closely with HBS professor Clayton Christensen.  He also co-founded an Internet infrastructure company and he helped launch two other early web companies. Nate began his career with the Boston Consulting Group where he advised technology firms on business and product strategy.

Early Bird Registration through Feb 21: $25 HBSASC and Harvard Club Members, $40 Non-Members
Registration After Feb 21: $45 for all attendees
Contact: Harvard Business School Association of Southern California, http://www.hbsasc.org/article.html?aid=434