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Startup Fundraising Panel on Nov. 27, 2018

Startup fundraising can be an arduous journey, especially when it’s done alone. Would it be easier if you had a specialized team to call on for help? Early Growth Financial Services (EGFS) and K&L Gates will be hosting a free event on Tuesday, November 27th, at 5:30pm. The panel of VC, lawyer and other experts will share their fundraising experience, stories, and knowledge with you as they discuss strategies on startup fundraising.

Join this free event at the offices of K&L Gates in San Francisco for a two hour session covering the fundraising process and strategies to consider when closing the deal. The food and drinks will be provided by Bi-Rite Market.

The Promise and Peril of Quantum Computing – Nov. 13

The Promise and Peril of Quantum Computing – An expert panel blending both theoreticians and practitioners will bring you up to speed on this genuinely transformative technology moving briskly toward commercializing.

Attending is an especially time-effective way to become acquainted with both the technology and major players in this intrinsically exciting sector sure to make a historical impact in both commerce and culture.

When Will True Human-Like AI Arrive?

I’ve done a lot of research on this and talked to numerous AI experts. There is no consensus on when Artificial General Intelligence (AGI) will arrive or how fast it will evolve. I can tell you that we’re still a ways off from developing true human-like AI. It’s not coming tomorrow.

What everyone can agree upon is that we keep raising the bar for AGI. It’s no longer a simple Turning Test using a chatbot. That goal for AGI is here already–or nearly so.

It really depends on how you define AGI. Human beings are quite complex and we have many facets to our intelligence. We’re still figuring out how the human brain actually works. It’s hard to capture everything when we don’t even understand our own intelligence. Read More...

Silicon Valley Meets GDPR on Nov 7, 2018

Data privacy affects all of us, whether you are an entrepreneur, a tech giant, a citizen or a consumer. The European Union and Open Austria invite you to join public and private stakeholders for a discussion, followed by a Q & A session on different approaches to data protection and explore the way forward.

Sponsored by the European Union, this event will be held on Nov. 7 at 5:30 PM in San Francisco. Food and drinks will be provided.

Find more information and register for free here.

Steven Schuler, Product Marketing Expert

Steven Schuler joined Founders Space as a mentor. He is a marketing leader with recent experience at Intercom and Yahoo. At Yahoo he led product marketing for Gemini, Yahoo’s platform for mobile native advertising. A mobile veteran, he has worked in the industry for over fifteen years, with positions on the wireless team at web analytics company Compete, at mobile marketing pioneer m-Qube, and at Sprint.

In the summer of 2007 Steve rode a bicycle from Boston, MA to Seattle, WA and kept a blog using only his Sony Ericsson s710a flip phone.

Steven holds an MBA from Georgetown University, where he is now a guest lecturer, and a BA from Union College.

Who Will I Become 10 Years from Now?

No one can predict the future. No one can control the events in their life. But everyone can make choices, and those choices add up to who we are and what we will become.

I hope you think carefully about each choice, even the small ones. Ten years from now, I hope you will be proud of your decisions. The sum of the decisions you make along the way, not the final results they produce, will define your character and the respect you deserve.

The world is changing in unpredictable ways. We are unleashing powerful, new technologies that hold great promise and even greater perils. Over the next decade, we will be approaching the point where humanity is taking evolution into its own hands. We now have the power to change our DNA and redesign the human species. We will eventually be creating smart machines that have the potential to think and act without us. They may even possess their own consciousness. And the world itself is faced with existential threats, from climate change to catastrophic war. Read More...

Bay Angels Investors Event on Oct 30, 2018

Bay Angels welcomes everyone to join them on Oct 30, 2018, in San Francisco and review their startups. Presenting companies are from Early stage to significant traction – from -Seed to Angel to Pre- A.

You can find more information and register here. Door tickets are not available.

Founders Space Pitch Day – Startups, VCs, Angels & More!

Come to Startup Pitch Day!

Join us at Founders Space Pitch Day & Mixer:
https://vc.eventbrite.com

Judging the startups will be a select group of top VCs, Angels & Corporate Investors from our Global Investor Network. Read More...

Giancarlo Mori, Digital Strategist, Executive Board Advisor & Investor

Giancarlo Mori joined Founders Space as a mentor. He is the CEO and Chief Architect at Movyl Technologies, an AI-powered platform for social communications and analysis.

Prior to starting Movyl Technologies, he was EVP of Strategy at Atari and CCO at Glu Mobile. Giancarlo has spent 20 years in technology and media as a technology and product executive at companies such as Electronic Arts, Microsoft, Activision-Blizzard. Giancarlo has founded several companies with multiple successful exits.

His blog is at https://medium.com/@gcmori. He lives in Oakland, CA with his family and one cat.

George Chamales, Computer Security Expert

George Chamales joined Founders Space as a mentor. He has nearly 20 years of computer security experience that includes leading R&D work to detect & deceive hackers for DARPA, securing financial, medical, and technology firms with Deloitte, and the end-to-end security assessment of nation-wide critical infrastructure systems.

He has provided strategic and technical security advice to dozens of startups in numerous fields and sizes ranging from angel-funded to post-acquisition. His startup work includes building security programs, designing and reviewing security architecture, ferrying teams through compliance regimes and everything in between.