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Entrepreneurship permeates the culture of Silicon Valley - the innovation capital of the world.
The advent of the Digital Age has democratized innovation and entrepreneurship.
Never before has it been more possible for anyone from anywhere, with a great idea and a burning desire to succeed, to make it big, and in the process, change the world in a relatively short period of time.
HP, Intel, Apple, Microsoft, Cisco, Oracle, Yahoo, eBay, Amazon, Google, Facebook and many, many, many other iconic companies all started with just an idea.
Taking a startup from idea to IPO has taken on mythical proportions in Silicon Valley and beyond. Many dream the dream, with hopes of launching the "next big thing".
We are a community of entrepreneurs, technologists, engineers, venture capitalists, angel investors, educators, financial professionals, corporate executives, attorneys, academics, bloggers, writers, content creators, and social activists.
Our mission is to provide entrepreneurs with the knowledge, guidance, tools, and connections they need to succeed. Our goal is to build a strong, vibrant, collaborative entrepreneurial community with deep, lasting business and social relationships throughout Silicon Valley and beyond.
One of the compelling features of our organization is our packed, busy calendar of informative programs and practical activities designed to help our entrepreneurial members achieve their objectives and realize their aspirations. Taking advantage of this vast array of relevant content will make you a better entrepreneur.
We believe in working together. We share resources, exchange ideas, and actively engage with each other -- on a personal level as well as on a business level. We participate in on-line as well as off-line events.
Our events feature expert speakers, networking opportunities, collaboration, community, and fellowship.
Many events on our calendar are in held in collaboration with other like-minded Silicon Valley organizations and institutions.
Our popular business and social networking mixers are festive occasions that allow you to meet new people from many different groups. We hold many social events to help members connect on a personal level and make friends.
Our network is expansive and global. We have members throughout the U.S. and around the world. We welcome international entrepreneurs from everywhere in the world to become part of our global community.
We are inclusive, not exclusive. : - )
We believe entrepreneurial educational opportunities should be accessible to anyone with a dream and ambition.
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http://www.hackerdojo.com/
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Hard Tech Venture Summit Silicon Valley
SRI, 333 Ravenswood Avenue, Menlo Park, CA, USThis event is organized by IEEE.
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IEEE Hard Tech Venture Summit Silicon Valley
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Where the Hard Tech ecosystem comes together. A premier, IEEE curated event connecting early-stage Hard Tech founders with pre-seed, seed, and Series-A Hard Tech investors and critical service providers from the Hard Tech innovation ecosystem.
Hard Tech = Startups building technology rooted in hardware innovation.18 attendeesStartup Fundamentals 3: Understanding the “Terms” in Term Sheets
5 Palo Alto Square, 3000 El Camino Real, Palo Alto, CA, USThis event is organized by ASV.
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Startup Fundamentals 3: Understanding the “Terms” in Term Sheets
Thursday, April 16 | 5:00 – 9:00pm
3000 El Camino Real
5 Palo Alto Square
Palo Alto, CA 94306SEATING IS EXTREMELY LIMITED, SO RESERVE YOUR SEAT ON EVENTBRITE HERE.
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Unlock Your Startup’s Potential: Join Our Essential Workshop!
Are you an entrepreneur ready to transform your vision into a successful, fundable startup? Access Silicon Valley invites you to join us for an invaluable 3-hour workshop designed to equip you with the legal and business tools and insights necessary to build a fundable and scalable startup and thrive in the startup ecosystem!
This is the last of three workshops in the Access Silicon Valley Startup Fundamental Series for startup founders, startup executives, entrepreneurs, innovators, and developers. While advantageous to have attended all 3 workshops, this is stand-alone content. You can still attend this program if you missed the first.
Thank you to our event sponsor, Snell & Wilmer**.
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In this third workshop of the Startup Fundamentals series, Roger Rappoport, a former entrepreneur, founder of Access Silicon Valley, a partner at Snell & Wilmer and co-leader of its Emerging Growth and Venture Capital practice group, will conduct an interactive, informative session with in depth content on the terms and term sheets for a seed, angel, convertible debt, Safe (pre-money and post-money) and Series A round.
This session will cover:
- When and from whom to take money
- When is an amount raised too much or too little, and the perils of both
- The anatomy of a term sheet
- Understanding the structure of, and the provisions that will most likely be included in, a convertible debt, Safe, angel and venture financing term sheet
- How to arrive at a realistic pre-money valuation
- The impact of term sheets on existing shareholders
- The provisions that will impact control of major and day-to-day decisions at your startup
- The most recent trends relating to: liquidation preferences, participation rights, anti-dilution provisions, pay-to-play provisions, redemption rights, registration rights, rights of first refusal, drag along rights, co-sale rights, among others
Materials:
A comprehensive 50-page digital workbook with an actionable step-by-step guide will be distributed to all registered event attendees on the day of the event.
Agenda:
5:00 PM - 6:00 PM - Dinner and networking
6:00 PM - 6:15 PM - Speaker and sponsor introductions
6:15 PM - 7:30 PM - Startup workshop Part A
7:30 PM - 7:45 PM - Intermission
7:45 PM - 8:45 PM - Startup workshop Part B
8:45 PM - 9:00 PM - Q & ASeating is extremely limited, so reserve your seat now.
About the Speaker:
Snell & Wilmer Partner Roger Rappoport, Co-Leader of the Emerging Growth and Venture Capital Practice Group, is a seasoned advisor to startups and emerging growth companies and the investors who finance them, guiding clients from inception through exit. With over two decades of experience in the startup ecosystem, Roger focuses on venture capital and angel investor financings, including convertible notes, SAFEs, and other debt financings. His knowledge extends to mergers and acquisitions, joint ventures, distribution, development, manufacturing, and licensing transactions, as well as executive compensation and the establishment of equity incentive plans.
Questions? Email Alex Levine at alevine@swlaw.com
12 attendeesThe AI Calibration
·OnlineOnlineThis webinar is organized by Strategic Profits.
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Participants can be located anywhere in the world!
This webinar is FREE to attend!
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You’ve seen the posts. The screenshots. The “I built this in 20 minutes” Tweets from people who seem to speak a language you don’t. Yet, when you open GPT, you don’t see what the hype is all about…
So you tried again. Better prompt this time. More specific. Slightly less terrible.
Then someone told you about Claude. So you tried that. Then someone said you need agents. Then someone said forget agents, you need MCP servers. Then someone said forget all that, you need Claude Code.
And a 52-minute YouTube video said the only right answer is OpenClaw.
Three tabs deep into a YouTube tutorial about vector databases and you’re thinking: “I run a business. I don’t have 4 hours a day to dedicate to experimenting with AI like a 23-year-old kid with no job does.”So you closed the laptop. And that voice crept in.
“Maybe I’m just not technical enough.”
“Maybe I already missed the window.”
“Maybe this is a hype bubble that will burst.”
You didn’t miss anything. And you don’t need to be technical.
Every AI tool you’ve tried was built for everyone and calibrated for no one. It doesn’t know your business. Your voice. Your customers. The way you think. The patterns you can’t see in yourself.
But let me ask you something:
Would you ask a stranger for business and life advice?
Of course you wouldn’t. And that’s exactly what 99% of people are doing with AI now. On April 16th, Rich will show you how to be in the 1% without spending months learning the ins and outs of AI.
Show Me How »##
## That Gap Is Where All The Opportunity Is
Right now, every time you prompt your AI, it’s making thousands of assumptions about who you are, what you do, and what you need. Every assumption is wrong. And every wrong assumption makes the output worse.
That’s why:- • Every email you write sounds like it was written by a stranger…
- • Every piece of content falls flat, no matter how good it sounds…
- • Every conversation with AI ends with you thinking I could have done this faster…
And that’s why you keep thinking AI is overhyped while others are using it to outproduce entire teams. They don’t have better prompts. They don’t have better tools. They have AI that’s been 100% calibrated to them.
To their life, their business, their blind spots, and the specific patterns they can’t see because they’re too close. And right now, almost nobody has done this.
Which means if you close this gap first, you get an advantage that compounds every single day for the next 12 months.
That’s why the AI Calibration event exists. Live, one-time, on April 16th at 8PM EST.## Here’s exactly what you’ll see live on April 16th. Free.
After 2,000 calibrations, patterns started showing up that nobody expected. Where entrepreneurs were leaving money. Why their AI kept producing mediocre work. And what changed the moment the gap closed.
Thursday, April 16th at 8PM EST, Rich Schefren is going live to share these findings, including:
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The “invisible revenue” hiding in Harold’s business that nobody saw… his AI found $127,000 without changing his offer, his pricing, or his team. (What it found will make you wonder what’s hiding in yours…)
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Why Debby’s AI told her something in one session that years of coaching, a therapist, and three retreats couldn’t. And it had nothing to do with feelings…it was about the one offer she’d been hiding from her own customers.
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The bizarre pattern Rich uncovered across 2,000+ AI calibrations that separates those who are compounding from the ones falling further behind. Which side you’re on has nothing to do with how “technical” you are. (In fact, the most technical people scored worst.)
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What Chris Muccio’s AI whispered about a deal everyone else had written off. Three words. He closed it for $6 million. His competitors are still trying to figure out what the hell happened.
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The dirty secret behind “prompt engineering” that the people selling you $47 template packs pray you never figure out. (Once you see it, you’ll understand why their AI produces the same generic slop as everyone else’s.)
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The specific moment during a calibration when your AI stops guessing and starts knowing. Rich will demonstrate this live April 16th. When you see it happen in real time, everything about how you’ve been using AI will click into place.
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PLUS: The 12-month window Rich has been warning about… He’ll show you exactly where we are in that window, what people inside it are producing and why 90 more days of “I’ll figure it out later” could cost you the single biggest advantage of your career.9 attendees
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