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Startups are struggling to survive.
Sources of additional funding are difficult to find. Customers are cutting back
on orders. Competitors are fighting for market share. What can entrepreneurs to
ensure survival? This meeting will focus on strategies for Survival in a Tight
Economy.
Each speaker, with varied backgrounds as entrepreneurs,
founders, and CEOs of several companies, will share his experience of building,
funding, and selling companies and Survival in a Tight Economy. |
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Speakers:
Greg Erman,
President & CEO of MarketSoft, is responsible for leading the senior
management team, raising capital and driving the vision of the company.
During his tenure Greg has raised $70M in capital and lead the vision
that places MarketSoft at the forefront of Next-generation Marketing
Automation. Previously, Greg was President & CEO of Waypoint Software
Corporation, which developed eCommerce applications for business-to-business
product catalogs on the Internet. He founded the company, recruited a
management team, raised venture capital, and sold the firm to Open Market,
Inc., a publicly traded leader in Internet commerce, in 1997. His investors
earned a 426% return in only four months.
Prior to founding Waypoint,
Greg served as Vice President of Sales and Marketing for an electronic
messaging software company and spent eight years at Digital Equipment
Corporation in national account sales and senior product management positions.
Greg holds BSEE and Marketing MBA degrees with high honors from
Rutgers University and serves on the boards of MIT's Technology Capital Network
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David Skok
joined Matrix Partners as a general partner in May 2001. He has a wealth of
experience running companies. David started his first company at age 22. Now
45, David has founded a total of four separate companies and performed one turn
around. Three of these companies went public.
David joined Matrix from
SilverStream Software, where he continues as chairman, acting more in a board
capacity than in a day-to-day role. He founded SilverStream in June 1996. Today
SilverStream is a public company with approximately 800 employees and offices
in more than 20 countries around the world.
Prior to the formation of
SilverStream, David was the President and CEO of Watermark Software, a company
he founded in January 1993 whose products fast became market share leaders in
the document imaging marketplace. Watermark was sold in August 1995 to FileNet
Corporation.
David holds a B.Sc Honours Degree in Computer Science
from the University of Sussex, England. |
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