San Francisco Entrepreneurs October Meetup (Guest Speaker: Rajesh Setty)

Thanks to the support from Microsoft & Jacobs & Ferraro, LLP!

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Advance Tickets (Paypal) are only $15.00.
Tickets at the door, day of the event will be $20.00.

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Our first NEW meetup will be a joint meeting with the Imtrepreneur group on October 25th (Thursday evening) at the Microsoft San Francisco office, 1 Market Street.

Why do you want to come?
- Network with other like-minded people
- Share resources with other entrepreneurs
- Kick start and improve your business venture
- Brainstorm with people who have been there and done that
- Give you inspiration to compliment your perspiration
- Learn from successful & expert entrepreneur guest speakers Rajesh Setty

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*Honor Guest Speaker: Rajesh Setty - President of Suggestica, Chairman of iPolipo, Serial Entrepreneur and Author
Rajesh Setty?s Bio
Rajesh Setty is a die-hard optimist (no eats, shoots and leaves!)

Rajesh Setty began entrepreneurial life the old fashioned way?by failing hard. Since this was right out of college fifteen years ago, the lessons he learnt he remembers well?even now. Moving on, Setty built company divisions, led teams and took on challenges with unabashed enthusiasm. His first venture in United States (co-founded in late 2000) ? CIGNEX Technologies, grew 250% every year, without external funding during his first five years of leadership.

Rajesh currently serves as the president of Foresight Plus, LLC through which he partners with select business leaders to provide them and their businesses with sustainable and unfair competitive advantage.

Rajesh is involved in several other businesses in US and India in some combination of investor, founder, advisor and/or an executive. Businesses he is involved with include:
- Suggestica - Focuses on bringing trusted content to the web
- iPolipo - Web based solution for scheduling
- Compassites - Outsourced product development for startups.
- PSVillage - Networking for senior Professional Services executives

Rajesh is a member of the Band of Angels, an angel network in Silicon Valley and Vistage a worldwide networking organization for CEOs.

Rajesh has written and published seven books so far. He wrote his first novel when he was nine and managed to get it published (by a reputed publisher) by the time he was thirteen. His latest book ?Beyond Code? (foreword by Tom Peters) was published in late 2005. Rajesh maintains a blog called Life Beyond Code. Rajesh speaks at conferences and companies in US and India on wide ranging topics that include Leadership, Entrepreneurship, Personal Branding and Living a Life Beyond Code.

Rajesh lives in the Silicon Valley with his wife Kavitha and their son Sumukh.

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Speech Topic: The Next Level

Entrepreneurship is more of a journey than a destination. One thing is certain - every entrepreneur wants to take his or her entrepreneurial venture to the next level. However, most often, there is always a lack of time, capacity and network of help to do this in an effective fashion. Nobody has unlimited resources and unlimited time to execute on their dreams.

In this talk, Rajesh will focus on things you can do (without breaking the bank) that can help you to take your entrepreneurial venture to the next level. These skills and practices (like building your personal brand and building lasting relationships) are not taught in school (yet) and you are expected to pick them up on your own. That would mean that it is never too late to learn to refine these skills and practices to increase your competitive advantage.

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RSVP by October 24th and:
1) Provide your full name (Microsoft office needs it for afterhour security reason)
2) Pay $15 Meeting fee by Paypal to cover the cost of the meeting space, materials, small meal and refreshment. Meeting fee will be $20 at the door. Food will NOT be guaranteed for those who did not pay ahead of time

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This event is proudly sponsored by:
Jacobs & Ferraro, LLP & Microsoft

Jacobs & Ferraro, LLP
Jacobs & Ferraro is a boutique San Francisco law firm that specializes
in the representation of emerging technology companies, investors and
entrepreneurs. We advise our clients regarding contract issues,
protection of intellectual property, venture and private finance,
mergers and acquisitions, securities law and complex litigation. We are
always happy to meet with prospective clients on a no-obligation basis
to discuss how we may be able to help you.
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