Engage Directly with Investors & Industry Leaders!

1. ENGAGE DIRECTLY WITH INVESTORS & INDUSTRY
LEADERS!
Executive Producer: Pemo Theodore
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2. NoPanels: The Unconference
• was created because there are too many boring conferences & most
entrepreneurs invest a lot of time @startup conferences with very
little take aways
• aims to facilitate entrepreneurs direct engagement with investors &
thought leaders to answer their questions about developing their
startups
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3. Launch July 30, 2013 @Orrick, Menlo Park
• Extremely successful event providing 120 entrepreneurs with direct
response to their questions
• Office Hours (10 minute speed dating with investors & industry
leaders) & small group conversations with Thought Leaders
• Over 70 Investors & Industry Leaders contributed!
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4. Target Market
• Entrepreneurs
• High growth startups
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5. Pemo Theodore
Executive Producer NoPanels
Pemo is a Media Publisher & Event Producer. She is Executive Producer of
Smart Money Silicon Valley: Network with & Learn with Silicon Valley
Investors! & NoPanels: Engage Directly with Investors & Industry Leaders!
She video interviews venture capitalists & angel investors EZebis: Winning
the Venture Game! She also developed the Pitch Perfect Virtual Coaching
program to support entrepreneurs to set up their deck & video pitch for
investors. She is based in Silicon Valley & has been involved in online
business for 9 years. She has been in small business for 34 years in Ireland,
London, Canada & Australia. She also published a free ebook (the findings of
1 year research with vcs, angels & women founders) "Why are Women
Funded Less than Men? a crowdsourced conversation"
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6. Feedback
Check out feedback video from attendees & NonPanelists
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7. NonPanelists
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8. Over 70 Well Known Investors & Industry
Leaders Contributed
David Hornik AUGUST CAPITAL; Michael Bushong PLEXXI; Sarah Cone ILLUMINATE VENTURES; Steve Morin;
Patrick Chung NAXURI CAPITAL; Dr. Sean Casey SILICON VALLEY SPACE CENTER; Rajesh Setty; Byron Ellis
SPONGECELL; Christina Ku DOCOMO; Ben Levy BOOTSTRAP LABS; Julie Craft INFUSIONSOFT; Sophie‐Charlotte
Moatti FACEBOOK; Scott McGrew NBC; Renata Quintini FELICIS VENTURES; Jamie Davidson HOTELTONITE; Chris
Anderson 3DROBOTICS; Andy Bartley ALGORITHIMS.IO; Gwen Edwards GOLDEN SEEDS; Jason Demant LAUNCH
FESTIVAL; Mike Sigal AGILE CREDIT; Sumit Mittal DEUTSCHE TELEKOM; Zohar Levkovitz AMOBEE; Dani Behrendt
HONDA SV LAB; Jake Flomenberg ACCEL VENTURES; Neal Strickberger; Cynthia Ringo DBL INVESTORS; Randy
Williams KEIRETSU FORUM; Harry McCracken TIME; Julie Chin THE ANGEL FUND; Wendy Lea
GETSATISFACTION; Eghosa Omoigui ECHOVC; Jim Kaskade INFOCHIMPS; Rohit Bodas AMEX VENTURES;
Brendan Wales E.VENTURES; Chris Yeh PBWORKS; David Blumberg BLUMBERG CAPITAL; Edith Yeung RIGHT
VENTURES; Tim Chang MAYFIELD FUND; Johnny Diggz Higgins VOXEO LABS; Anthony Lee ALTOS VENTURES;
Mary Hodder; Mark Rose RIDEZU; Ann Winblad HUMMER WINBLAD; Andreas Stavropoulos DFJ VENTURES;
John Shapiro INTUIT QUICKBOOKS; Topher Wilkins OPPORTUNITY COLLABORATION; Michelle Zatlyn
CLOUDFARE; Scott Orn LIGHTHOUSE CAPITAL PARTNERS; Nancy Hayes MOOLAHOOP ; Elise Brownell ANGELS
FORUM; Jock Breitwieser TRINET; Alex Niehenke SCALE VP; Jeff Tannenbaum BLUE RUN VENTURES; Greg Kidd
RIPPLE LABS; Kayvan Baroumand NESTGSV; Bill Reichert GARAGE VENTURES; Prashant Shah TIE ANGELS;
Dimple Sahni DS INC; Sumeet Jain INTEL CAPITAL; Cromwell Schubarth BIZ JOURNALS ; Carey Lai INTEL CAPITAL
& ORRICK ATTORNEYS
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9. Conversation Streams
Conversations & Office Hours are focused on BIG FORCES that have
triggered the Tech revolution:
• MOBILE
• BIG DATA
• SOCIAL
• CLOUD
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10. Partners
founders suite, Boast Capital, Bay Brazil, Lifograph, bizzabo, Intuit,
American Express, nika labs, Proactive Technology Management, US
Mac, Latino Startup Alliance, Silicon Vikings, blackbox, UpGlobal,
PitchTo, Girls in Tech, Women Startup Lab, SV Entrepreneurs, Graffiti
PR, isnap, PBWorks, Orbit app, & Pointview
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