Raising Money-Getting from Business Plan to a Funded Company

Friday, February 19, 2010

2:30 P.M. – 4:30 P.M.

Seminar Speaker Steven Gal is a career entrepreneur. In July 2009, he returned to teaching entrepreneurship at Cornell University's Johnson Graduate School of Management.  Steven's interests focus on the founding and building of new high-growth ventures.  Over more than a decade in the technology industry, Steven has co-founded and grown six venture-capital backed companies, raising more than $100 million.  These lead to an IPO, several successful sales, and one failure.  During these years, he solved entrenched problems for consumers and businesses across areas as diverse as identity theft, personal privacy, customer suppport, e-marketing, and internet search.  Prior to his technology career, Steven was an associate professor of clinical entrepreneurship in the Entrepreneur Program at USC's Marshall School of Business.  Earlier, he spent several years on Wall Street in risk arbitrage and on the floor of the New York Futures Exchange.  Steven is an attorney and a member of the California Bar.

Networking reception follows the program.  Seminar in B8 Sage Hall, The Johnson School, Cornell University. 

Webinar Available

This session is part of Cornell University's Entrepreneurship Seminar Series "Stimulating Economic Development Through Entrepreneurial Initiatives...Meaningful Topics...Meaningful Takeaways"

Upcoming seminar:  April 23.  Topic:  StartupKillers

 

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