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When & Where
Wednesday, May 3, 2023
8:00 AM to 5:00 PM
Rooms 209/210 - Santa Clara Convention Center
TiEcon Startup Bootcamp 2023
TiEcon, the world's largest conference for entrepreneurs, is back with the Startup Bootcamp for 2023. TiEcon Startup Bootcamp is an intensive full day program designed to provide early-stage entrepreneurs with the necessary tools, resources, and network to take their startup to the next level.
The TiEcon Startup Bootcamp 2023 will be held on Wednesday, May 3, 2023. This year's program will feature renowned entrepreneurs, educators, investors, and mentors who will share their insights and expertise with the participants. Below is the schedule:
- 8:00 AM Registration and Badging for Bootcamp Participants (collect your books)
- 9:00 AM An interactive workshop: (Naeem Zafar, UC Berkeley, CEO Concordia Ventures, Startup Advisor): - Becoming investor-ready & getting most out of TiECon
- 12:00 PM LUNCH
- 12:45 PM Pitch refinement (All teams will work with mentors in small groups) - Selected teams advance to second round of mentoring
- 2:00 pm Break to adjust pitches based on first mentoring session.
- 2:30 PM Selected teams advance to second round of mentoring with new mentors
- 2:30 PM Parallel Session: Advice for eliminated teams.
- 3:30 PM Final teams selected.
- 4:00 PM VC Investor Panel (Finals) - Best teams pitch to a panel of VCs
What to Expect at TiEcon Startup Bootcamp 2023
The TiEcon Startup Bootcamp 2023 is designed to be an immersive experience for the participants to become investor ready.
- Learn what resonates with investors through an intensive session from our main instructor who has raised $100M plus from investors and has had several exits.
- Work with Silicon Valley mentors in small groups to refine your investor pitch and receive feedback.
- Pitch to real VCs and angel investors: Get valuable feedback on your business idea from experienced investors and receive guidance on how to secure funding.
- Network with peers: Workshop will talk about how to get most out of TiEcon: how to meet and connect with like-minded entrepreneurs from diverse industries and backgrounds, build meaningful relationships and explore potential partnerships.
- All attendees will get a set of books on entrepreneurship (Getting Funding, Market Research, Financial Modeling and Legal aspects).
Instructor
Naeem Zafar has been teaching entrepreneurship and innovation for over 15-years. He is a faculty member at the University of California Berkeley and also at the Northeastern University. He has taught at multiple other universities (Santa Clara University, Brown University, Ozyegin University and LUMS). He is a frequent speaker at conferences and advises entrepreneurs all over the world. Naeem is a 7X entrepreneur and 5X CEO with a history of building and exiting companies. He currently serves as the founder & CEO of TeleSense, an IoT company creating real-time wireless sensing and predictive analytics solutions for the stored grain industry. He is deeply ingrained in the Silicon Valley ecosystem and frequently speaks about innovation and entrepreneurship. Naeem has been advisor to and invested in over 20 companies (recent exits include Luminar (IPO in 2020) and Electriphi bought by Ford in 2021). Naeem has authored five books on entrepreneurship. He has a graduate degree in electrical engineering from the University of Minnesota. More about him at www.NaeemZafar.com.
Mentors
Deepak Bhagat
Vice President
SAP
SAP
Niraj Saran
Technology and Business Leader
Investor
Investor
Anurag Wadehra
Senior Mentor
Senior Mentor
Senior Mentor
Anurag is a growth coach to tech companies, after 30+ years in operating roles. He has coached and mentored 100+ tech founders and operators. He teaches an online cohort-based course on Product Market Fit and writes the newsletter Growth Matters based on his experience in scaling companies from seed to IPO to $500 Million. His experience includes stints at Google and P&G as well as founder or operator roles at six startups in data, cloud & AI technologies. He was also the CMO at 2 public tech companies. Anurag has an MBA from Chicago Booth, and engineering degree from IIT Delhi, India
Shahab Riazi has charted a path through Enterprise Software working with innovative solutions for Large scale organizations. Shahab started his journey in Business Optimization Services targeting Client server architecture transitioning to web in the early 2000s and then led the SAP Enterprise Services Org for the topline SAP customers. Shahab worked with SAP's latest generation of tools in the 2010s including HANA and SAP Mobility. Shahab transitioned to being an entrepreneur from the corporate world and built a service targeting a rich market of 20 Million US College students around the country. Today, Shahab is part of the Customer Success Org at BOX, Inc, the enterprise Cloud Content Management solution for Fortune 100 companies. Shahab's experience and skill is most defined in enterprise software building, service development and delivery. He also has expertise in Business Development and Technical Partnership Building in Enterprise and Startup space. Shahab attended Purdue and Stanford Universities for Computer Sciences and Mathematics.
You can reach Shahab at Linkedin , Twitter (@afrasiyab) and read his musings at substack .
You can reach Shahab at Linkedin , Twitter (@afrasiyab) and read his musings at substack .