Girls In Tech

Girls in Tech presents Start It Up!

A practical, no-nonsense guide to starting a company, raising money, and building your first product. Everyone can and should be an entrepreneur, and it’s a little knowledge and a dash of courage that separates an employer from an employee. We’ll quickly cover market selection, co-founders, fundraising, common characteristics of successful companies, and realistic timelines, expectations, and outcomes. There will be Q&A afterwards as well for specific issues.

Presented by Naval Ravikant:

Naval Ravikant is an experienced entrepreneur and startup investor, and contributor to the Venture Hacks blog (which he co-founded). He is currently an active angel investor in over 25 early-stage ecommerce and social media startups, including Twitter, Social Media, and WeGame. He is also Executive Chairman of Vast.com, and a Director at Hive7 and Mercantila, Inc..

Previously, he founded Genoa Corp (acq. Finisar), Epinions (went public as part of Shopping.com), Chainn Inc. (a large Facebook app developer), Hive7, & Vast.com. He advised Bix.com (acq. Yahoo), iPivot (acq. Intel), Dulance (acq. Google), & XFire (acq. Viacom), among others. Naval graduated from Dartmouth College with a BA in Computer Science & Economics.

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Tags: angel investors, girls in tech, investors, naval ravikant, start-ups, technology, women

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