CINA Entrepreneur Thought Leader Mentor:Winning an Audience with a Venture Investor

Date / Time: March 25 2010 - 06:30pm to 09:00pm

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Venue: Fenwick & West, LLP., 801 California Street, Mountain View, CA

Speaker

David Smith, Founder and Chairman of Tynax Inc.

Highlight

Which investors do you approach, how do you approach them, when is the company ready to talk to them? Before an entrepreneur is ready or able to present to investors, he/she must have reached a certain point of maturity in the business, prepared the business plan, identified suitable investors, approached them and successfully survived the screening process.

About Speaker

David Smith  is the founder and chairman of Tynax Inc. a global patent and technology exchange. A serial entrepreneur, David founded numerous successful high technology startup companies in a career spanning almost 30 years. In addition to his full-time role at Tynax, David is managing partner at Cambridge Manhattan Group, a startup creation and incubation company and president of ASTECS, the Association of Technology Entrepreneurs.

As Apple World Marketing Manager in the early 1990’s, David was responsible for Apple Computer’s marketing programs in Europe, Africa and the Middle East. A pioneer of the early Internet and worldwide web, David’s was founder and CEO of SurfMonkey, Inc., developing the leading web browser and safety service for kids. As CEO of MediaLive Inc., David designed one of the first web browsers, email and TV-set-top-box systems. Davids' inventions have been awarded U.S. patents and his software and multimedia products have won critical acclaim.

David authored the book Zero-to-IPO, now published in Japanese as well as English language. He has addressed U.S. government congressional hearings and appeared on several radio and TV shows.

He holds a BSc.(Hons.) Computer Science & Economics from the University of Leeds (U.K.), a Postgraduate Diploma in Marketing from the University of Westminster (U.K.)