What are the best practices for building and scaling successful startups? Join UC Davis Venture Catalyst Knowledge Exchange on July 18 and find out.
Building and scaling startups is hard. Creating a successful startup is even harder. Join UC Davis Venture Catalyst Knowledge Exchange for a talk from Jonathan C. Baer, Managing Partner, Threshold Ventures about best practices for building businesses based upon Jonathan decades of experience working with startups around the world. You will learn about how investors think, ways to increase the success of your startup, and the attributes that good entrepreneurs needs to possess.
WHEN: Wednesday, July 18, 2018, 11:30 a.m. – 1:00 p.m.
WHERE: UC Davis Office of Research
1850 Research Park Drive
Davis, CA 95618
Not only is this event free but lunch is provided.
REGISTER NOWAbout Jonathan C. Baer
Jonathan C. Baer is the Managing Partner of Threshold Ventures. Jon is a recovering venture capitalist who loves working with early stage companies around the world. He was the founder and CEO of two venture-backed companies, one of which was a spinout from SRI International. Jon now spends his time teaching, mentoring, and advising early stage companies with leading accelerators and investors around the world. He believes that startups require tough love; and need to focus on money, metrics, and milestones. Jon teaches startup CEOs to say less, because less is more.
Jon assists companies with a range of startup issues and challenges: refining presentations, connecting with customers and partners, raising capital, validating markets and sales channels and recruiting advisors and board members. Jon was a General Partner at Oscco Ventures, a Sand Hill Road early-stage venture capital firm that was one of the pioneering firms in Silicon Valley. Jon started his career at Exxon Enterprises where he was responsible for creating and managing new businesses for the corporation.
He has a BA in Biology and a BS in Engineering Science from Tufts University and an MBA from Dartmouth’s Tuck School of Business. Jon provides mentoring to Stanford University’s StartX accelerator and Singularity University’s acceleration programs and has taught a class on venture capital at Berkeley’s Haas School of Business. He is the co-author of Decoding Silicon Valley: The Insider’s Guide.
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