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- Venture Capital Panel: What's Hot, What's Not! #135 Palo Alto Square, Palo Alto, CA
This event is organized in collaboration with many groups.
This is an in-person event.
There is a cover charge for this event.
A "YES" RSVP on our meetup site does not confirm your reservation.
In order to attend, please register and pay here:
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Venue:
Snell and Wilmer
5 Palo Alto Square
(Ground Floor Event Center)
3000 El Camino Real
Palo Alto, CA 94306A distinguished panel of venture capitalists will discuss what's hot and what's not in the Silicon Valley venture capital and tech startup ecosystem!
Please come with your questions and comments.
(This is not a pitch event. Startups will not be pitching to the panel.)
Dinner will be provided.
Agenda
6:00 pm to 7:00 pm Check In, Food, Networking
7:00 pm to 8:30 pm Program
8:30 pm to 9:00 pm Networking
After Party
Panelists:
(More panelists TBA.)
Sophie Liao, Founding Partner, Republic Ventures
Alex Marquez, Founder, SVP & Global Managing Director, Experian Ventures
Jean-Philippe 'JP' Persico, Managing Partner, shuckerVC
Navgeet King Zed, CEO, Omece Venture Studios
Sunmeet Jolly, Managing Partner, Jolly VC
Darwin Ling, Founding General Partner, Good AI Capital
Moderator:
Roger Rappoport, Partner, Snell and Wilmer
If you would like a startup demo table or sponsor marketing table, send an email message to:
pitchanddemo@gmail.com
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Everyone’s building AI products and services — but most products still fail.
Why? It’s not the tech. It’s the product thinking.
Join Alex Dang, Silicon Valley strategist and co-author of the global bestseller The Venture Mindset, for a no-fluff, high-impact workshop on what really separates winning AI products from the ones that never ship—or worse, launch and flop.
You’ll learn the 7 deadly mistakes that kill AI projects—and how to avoid them using the same tools that helped scale ideas at Amazon and drive innovation with Fortune 500s and startups alike.
This workshop is battle-tested, hands-on, and designed for builders who want to move faster without wasting time on the wrong things.
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🧠 What You’ll Learn
- How to stress-test clarity and ambition of your idea
- How to run fast MVP tests (without overbuilding)
- How to identify and design for edge cases
- Why simple hacks often beat complex models
- Why storytelling and demos matter more than feature lists
- How to reimagine, not just automate
- And most importantly: how to pick a problem worth solving
You’ll leave with a framework, tools, and mental models you can apply immediately—whether you’re shipping your first prototype or your tenth investor update.
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Who Should Join
- Startup founders
- Anyone ready to stop talking about AI — and start shipping smarter
📄 What You'll Get
- A proven framework to validate and stress-test your AI product ideas with clarity and ambition
- Templates and examples to improve storytelling, demo strategy, and product thinking instantly
- A certificate of Completion to showcase your skills in AI product building and apply them immediately
🎙️ About the Speaker
Alex Dang is a former Amazon and AWS AI product leader, McKinsey Partner, and keynote speaker who launched and scaled numerous new digital products and businesses, and advise some of the world’s most iconic companies. He's the co-author of The Venture Mindset, a global bestseller now translated into multiple languages. He works at the intersection of product strategy, AI, and innovation – with clients from Fortune 500s to startups.
