September 18th - BAY AREA STARTUP NETWORK: Fastpitch Breakfast

Our guests will be Shomit Ghose, Partner, Onset Ventures

Location:
Bay Cafe Restaurant (Note the different location from last month!)
1875 Embarcadero Rd
Palo Alto, CA 94303


Schedule: 8:00 - 09:30 AM

About Onset Ventures:
With over $700 million under management, ONSET has the financial resources to match the strong personal commitment of each partner. ONSET focuses exclusively on information and medical technologies, investing solely in companies where they believe that they can add value far beyond financial capital. ONSET has backed over 100 companies since 1984, focusing on early-stage and select later-stage enterprises in business-to-business markets. See http://www.onset.com/about/index.html for more info... About Shomit Ghose:
Shomit Ghose joined ONSET Ventures in 2001 after 19 years of working at high-tech companies in the Silicon Valley. During his career he participated in several successful IPOs, including those of Sun Microsystems and Broadvision. Prior to joining ONSET, he was Sr. VP of Operations at Tumbleweed Communications, where he managed the marketing, professional services, applications engineering and corporate development departments. He helped the company through a successful IPO in 1999. Previously, he was VP of the Worldwide Professional Services Organization at BroadVision and helped that company through a successful IPO in 1996. His first job was as network protocol engineer at Metaphor Computer Systems, a company acquired by IBM. Later, he was an engineer in the original pre-IPO software development team at Sun Microsystems. He has also been Director of Marketing and then Director of Asia/Pacific Operations for nCUBE, a manufacturer of video-on-demand servers, and a board member of Alier, a data integration software company that is now part of webMethods. Shomit was awarded two academic scholarships to the University of California, Berkeley, at age 15. He graduated in 1982 with a degree in Computer Science. At ONSET Ventures, Shomit focuses on software, networking and infrastructure companies. He also mentors and provides management resources to portfolio companies to help maximize their success.

Registration:
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Contact and moderator:
Mike Humphries at mhumphries@turneightgroup.com
Phone: 650 793 0108
Mike is a Partner at Turn Eight Group. Turn Eight Group focuses on producing customers and revenues for growing companies.

Breakfast Sponsored by Technology & Intellectual Property Strategies Group PC
(http://www.tipsgroup.org)
Contact: Brian Boyer 650-465-1949
About TIPS Group:
TIPS Group provides technology & intellectual property strategies to companies ranging from start-ups to major international corporations. The firm consults on business formation, financing, and operation, technology development and protection, and provides legal services with emphasis in the areas of corporate, patent law, licensing and dispute resolution. TIPS Group maintains offices in Palo Alto, California and Washington, D.C.