THE STARTUP MAZE RUNNER - with Yochi Slonim

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JBNF is proud to announce:

THE STARTUP MAZE RUNNER - Navigating the Minefields of Startup Fundraising

Yochi Slonim,

Managing Partner, FFWD.me

Monday, November 16th, 2015 17:30

Yochi Slonim, Managing Partner at http://FFWD.me and CEO, Anima Biotech (http://www.animabiotech.com/), has given two talks at JBNF. These were among the best talks we have ever heard.

Insightful, practical and highly amusing.

Yochi's third presentation, THE STARTUP MAZE RUNNER, is about the maze full of traps and minefields that startups have to cross in order to raise funds from investors. The maze exists in the investors' mind, protecting their money with hard questions that startups must answer as they navigate deeper towards the gold in its center. Thousands of startups have died in the maze but they left behind them information as to where the traps and mines are located. In this highly visual and engaging presentation, Yochi uses his 25 years of living in the maze, raising funds and working with tens of startups. His presentation will describe the structure of the maze, its key traps and minefields and the path to the gold in its center.

Yochi's presentation will be given at JBNF during the Global Entrepreneurship Week Nov 18-24 (http://gew.org.il/events-2015/) and will be part of the celebrations taking place in Jerusalem and at the Jerusalem College of Technology.

The first presentation was given January 2013 and has been seen almost 10,000 times.

How to Stand Out from the Competition and What Happens If You Don't (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dGB8gKAAwhU)

The second presentation was given for the Global Entrepreneurial Week Nov 2013

Startups from Mars - Investors from Venus: How to Raise Funds for your Startup (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xsSQ6IjlPU0)

RVSP to assure your place.

Entrance fee is 20 NIS at the door.

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About the speaker

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Yochi Slonim is a serial entrepreneur and company builder with 25 years of experience across the high tech and biotech industries. He is co-founder and CEO of Anima Biotech (http://www.animabiotech.com) (a drug discovery company with a technology platform that monitors protein synthesis to discover novel drugs). Anima raised over $18m for its drug discovery programs in Fibrosis, Viral infections and Autism.

In addition to his involvement in biotech over the last 8 years, Yochi has over 25 years of experience in the software industry. From 2013, he is active chairman of Nextnine, a cyber security company. In 2009, He co-founded Leadspace enabling B2B companies to identify buyers on the Internet. The company raised over $30m and has over 100 tier 1 customers.

In 2007, Yochi founded FFWD.me (http://www.ffwd.me), the startup fast forward program that helped over 25 startups develop their strategy and raise funding. From 2000 till 2006, he was founder and CEO of Identify Software, pioneering black box flight recorders for software applications. The company grew to $50m in sales in 5 years and was acquired by BMC for $150m. From 1996 till 2000, he was Executive Vice President of products and marketing at Tecnomatix, a public NASDAQ company, which grew to sales of $100m and was later acquired by UGS for $220m. From 1989 till 1996, Yochi was a co-founder, CTO and VP R&D of Mercury Interactive, which became public in 1993, grew to over $1B in sales and was acquired by HP for $4.5B.

He holds a B.Sc. and M.sc in mathematics and computer science (Cum Laude) from the Hebrew university in Jerusalem.

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