Nathan C. Bland
san_francisco, ca
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- Last log-in: 2007-10-10 00:00:00
- Events: 13
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Zepparella
Where: The Red Devil Lounge
Date: 2007-09-07 20:00:00
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Zepparella is a four-piece, double rated astronavigatrix earth band whose specialty is rock.
Pollux, The Union Trade, One Becomes One Hundred
Where: The Make Out Room
Date: 2007-08-23 22:00:00
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Sex Worker Film and Arts Festival
Where: Roxie Cinema
Date: 2007-07-07 00:00:00
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Multiple locations-Dates are tentative The Sex Worker Film & Arts Festival features films by and about sex workers, live performance by sex worker artists. The 2007 Sex Worker Film and Arts fest will be held later than usual, summer rather than spring, in conjunction with the Desiree Alliance Sex Worker Conference. The Festival takes place every other year. http://www.sexworkerfest.com/ describes the 2005 SW Fest.
Kelley Stoltz
Where: The Rickshaw Stop
Date: 2007-11-30 20:30:00
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Kelley Stoltz is a San Francisco home-recording multi-instrumentalist musician. The Moore Brothers feature a wide array of styles and moods that showcase the Brother's close harmony singing and their individual talents as well. Bart Davenport is the former lead singer of The Loved Ones, much-heralded San Franciscan garage/blues band.
SVASE Event: 'MAIN EVENT: Are We All On The Same Page? - Inv...
Where: Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati
Date: 2007-12-06 18:00:00
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Event: 'MAIN EVENT: Are We All On The Same Page? - Investors Vs Founders!' Date: Thursday, December 06, 2007 At 06:00 Duration: 2 Hours 30 Minutes Contact Info: Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati (WSGR Campus), 950 Page Mill Road, Palo Alto, CA 94304 Email: info@svase.org URL:svase.org/index.php?option=com_extcalendar&Itemid=149&extmode=view&extid=1173 With the holiday season approaching, this irreverent panel will delve into the delicate balancing act that exists between a startup’s investors and founders. Investors say they want founders who want to build long term viable companies, but how does that square with the desire for dramatically accelerated growth and a profitable exit just a few years down the road? Am I working overtime till I get fired? This oft quoted comment from a production line worker in the fiercely cyclical semiconductor industry could just as well be ascribed to the founders of many startups. What really happens to founding teams when milestones fail to be met and there’s no sign of fresh investors on the horizon? From conflict resolution...to liquidity timing...to balancing long term and short term goals, this panel will provide a good humored and lively debate on the driving forces behind each side of the investor/founder marriage. • What does each side really want from the other? • How does the dynamic change when new investors come on board? • Who’s really running the company – the founders or the investors? • What happens when milestones fail to be met? • How often do founders get coached to succeed versus replaced, and what are the consequences? • What’s more important – a successful, viable company, or a profitable exit? • What due diligence should you do before approaching investors? The Panel: • Jonathan Abrams, Founder & CEO, Socializr and Friendster • Warren Packard, Managing Director, Draper Fisher Jurvetson • Paul Pluschkell, Founder & CEO, spigit • Bill Reichert, Managing Director, Garage Technology Ventures Moderator: TBD WHEN: Thursday, December 6 6:00 - 7:00 pm: Networking and hors d’oeuvres 7:00 - 8:15 pm: Panel discussion and Q/A 8:15 - 8:30 pm: Additional networking LOCATION: Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati (WSGR Campus), 950 Page Mill Road, Palo Alto, CA 94304 PRE-REGISTERED RATES (All Rates Include Hors D’oeuvres): Members - $20; Affiliates who advertise this event - $29; General Public - $49 WALK-IN RATES: Add $10.00 to the listed price To reserve an Exhibit Table: Contact Info@svase.org, $600 Members, $1,100 Non-members. Seating is limited, so early registration is recommended to avoid disappointment on the day. This event is co-sponsored by Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati, www.wsgr.com/ Speakers’ Bios Jonathan Abrams, Founder and CEO, Socializr and Friendster Jonathan Abrams is the founder, CEO, and Junior Computer Programmer at Socializr, an online service for sharing event and party information with your friends. Jonathan is an award-winning serial entrepreneur who created the pioneering social networking service Friendster in 2002. Jonathan is the inventor of a United States Patent for a "System, method, and apparatus for connecting users in an online computer system based on their relationships within social networks." Previously, Jonathan was the founder & CEO of bookmarking community HotLinks, and worked as a software engineer at companies such as Netscape and Nortel. Jonathan holds an Honors B.Sc. in Computer Science from McMaster University, which he received after flunking out of engineering school. Jonathan was named a "Breakout star of 2003" by Entertainment Weekly, and as one of Advertising Age Magazine’s "Entertainment Marketers of the year." Jonathan has also been honored as one of the world’s top young innovators by the MIT Technology Review, and nominated in the software designer category for the 2004 Wired Rave Awards. Jonathan is a member of the advisory board of the Silicon Valley Association of Startup Entrepreneurs, and has been extensively involved in the silicon valley entrepreneurial community, including past roles such as co-chair of the SDForum Venture Finance SIG, and a judge for the Stanford Entrepreneur's Challenge business plan contest, the UC Berkeley Business Plan Competition, and the Stanford-Berkeley Innovators' Challenge. Warren J. Packard, Managing Director, Draper Fisher Jurvetson Warren Packard is a Managing Director at Draper Fisher Jurvetson. He currently serves on the Boards of Anagran, BinOptics, CastTV, EoPlex, Imago Scientific Instruments, Media Lario, and Ooma. Mr. Packard also leads the firm's investments in CallGate, Jaxtr, Microfabrica, Primet Precision Materials, TicketsNow, and YeePay. Prior to joining the firm, Mr. Packard co-founded Angara Database Systems, a main memory relational database company, which was acquired by Personify. Prior to co-founding Angara, he was an Associate at Institutional Venture Partners, investing in early-stage technology companies. Before IVP, Mr. Packard was a Senior Principal Engineer in the Advanced Product Development Group at Baxter International. Mr. Packard is a Phi Beta Kappa graduate of Stanford University and holds a BS and MS in Mechanical Engineering: Smart Product Design. He received his MBA from the Stanford Graduate School of Business where he was an Arjay Miller Scholar. E-mail: warren@boxbe.com Paul Pluschkell, Founder and CEO, spigit Paul Pluschkell, founder and CEO of spigit, is also a managing partner of Raven Holdings, an emerging technology management fund. Before founding spigit, Mr. Pluschkell served as president and CEO of HyperFeed Technologies, which focused on building low latency ticker plants for exchanges and hedge funds, from 2003 to 2006. Mr. Pluschkell founded MXnet, a financial market extranet, in 1996, and then sold it to IXNet/IPC. After the sale, Mr. Pluschkell served as an IXNet officer; the company was sold to Global Crossing in 1999. Mr. Pluschkell became executive vice president of sales, products, and marketing for Global Center, a Global Crossing subsidiary. Following the subsidiary's sale to Exodus Communications in 2001, Mr. Pluschkell became president of broadband at Global Crossing, where he served until 2002. Mr. Pluschkell received his BS degree from Eastern Illinois University and completed master's course work at the University of Dallas. Bill Reichert, Managing Director, Garage Technology Ventures Bill Reichert has over 20 years of experience as an entrepreneur and an operating executive. Since joining Garage in 1998, Bill has focused on early-stage information technology and materials science companies. He sits on the Boards of CaseStack, WhiteHat, ClearFuels, and cFares. Prior to Garage, Bill was a co-founder or senior executive in several venture-backed technology startups, including Trademark Software, The Learning Company and Academic Systems. Earlier in his career, he worked at McKinsey & Company, Brown Brothers Harriman & Co., and the World Bank. Bill earned a B.A. at Harvard College and an M.B.A. from Stanford University. reichert@garage.com
Moe
Where: The Fillmore Center
Date: 2008-01-17 20:00:00
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A jam band much in the same vein as Blues Traveler, moe. plays funk-rock mixed with jazz and blues.
Tom Carter
Where: Cafe Du Nord
Date: 2008-01-09 21:30:00
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For many years, Tom Carter has honed his unique style of improv guitar improvisation as a solo artist and as a collaborator with countless other musicians. Eschewing effects, he uses slides, fanning and ebow basics to create hypnotic walls of sound.
Day is Done
Where: Yerba Buena Center for the Arts Screening Room
Date: 2008-01-31 19:30:00
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A major new video work by Los Angeles artist Mike Kelley, Day is Done is a twisted semi-musical that examines American subcultures. It is composed of 31 sketches, each a reconstruction of photographs found in high school yearbooks, with such familiar events as dress-up days, memorial speeches, religious spectacles and fashion shows. Kelley disrupts the traditional structures of such events to construct a dizzying daisy chain of performances resulting in an institutional landscape populated by dancing Goths, singing vampires, hick storytellers, horse dancers and the Virgin Mary (2005/06, 169 min, video). Public Info: 415-978-2787 or www.ybca.org $8 regular; $6 students, seniors, teachers and YBCA Members
Venture Connections 2008: A Frost & Sullivan Executive Sympo...
Where: Hyatt Regency San Francisco
Date: 2008-03-12 00:00:00
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It's a whole new ball game for early stage venture capital investment in medical devices and life sciences. Venture Connections 2008 is a uniquely interactive forum delivering opportunities for a critical mass of companies seeking funding to showcase to the venture capital community.
Gary Louris
Where: The Fillmore
Date: 2008-03-20 20:00:00
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Well known guitarist and singer, Gary Louris plays alternative, country and pop music. Vetiver, a San Francisco band and part of the Devendra Banhart clan, delivers a live set that gracefully navigates the choppy waters of folk and pop as it blends shimmering melodies and intimate songs with the jumpiness of old Cajun music with gentle vocals matched against finger-picking acoustic guitar duets, a tasteful hint of slide guitar and minimalist drumming, and simple, sturdy cello lines from Alissa Anderson.