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Reverse VC Pitch Party

VCs are here to charm you.

Normally, you pitch VCs. Well at this event the VCs will be pitching you. Think of it as Sadie Hawkins night for entrepreneurs.

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"This is a party I'd crash if I weren't hosting it."
- Larry Chiang
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This is launching at SXSW where we will be doing events in Seattle, LA, Chicago, NY, Vancouver, Palo Alto, Berkeley, San Francisco, Austin, Columbus, Bloomington and even Champaign IL.

@LarryChiang is hosting another one of his classic VC/entrepreneur mashups at #sxsw . Sign up @ JoelYarmon @ AzizGilani at www.duck9.com/14
9:59 AM Jan 20th

from David Rohrsheim
Draper Fisher Jurvetson

 

Where: Downtown Austin. Address released with RSVP
Who: VCs, Associates, VC Admins, ex-VCs & future VCs* and funded entrepreneurs spilling VC secrets.
Featured Guests: Spot the celebrity CEO's
- One sold a company to Intuit after winning TC 40
- One just sold to Google and had a party Friday the 12th in SF and has an animal for a logo. I think aardvarks eat ants or you can just ask the founder himself.
- One has a complaint dB and owns 100%
- One sold a company to salesforce

Co-Hosting Organizations : Austin Tech Start-Up and Women 2.0
Co-Hosts: Brian Solis, Cassie Phillips, Anna Anisin and Bryan Menell
Party Secretary : Larry Chiang*
* Larry Chiang is also the founder, funder, managing director, and only member of his fan club on facebook :-/
When: 9pm - 11:59pm, March 14, 2010

How to properly RSVP: Here
http://bit.ly/vc0314

Cost: SOLD OUT

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PRESS: If you're a blogger, paypal me $21.

If you show up, you get your $21 back.


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Agenda: Party where VCs woo and charm YOU.

9:00 - 9:20pm Registration
9:30 -10:20pm Passed Start-Up Hors D'oeuvres = pizza (No-host drinks) + Yellow Kool-Aid
10:20pm - 10:30pm VCs Introduced
10:30pm - 11:59 Networking


Tweet out this party

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CONTEST: Win a free ticket worth $95.00. In honor of my mentor, Mark McCormack.

Tweet out "Enter to win a tix to the Reverse VC Pitch Party (in honor of @larrychiang's mentor RT this - http://bit.ly/vc0314" click here

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Capacity: 175.

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Limiting to the 1st 25 bloggers. Once this button is gone, 25 bloggers have RSVPed
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PRESS: If you're a blogger, paypal me $21.

If you show up, you get your $21 back

Since it is sold out now, text me, @6502838008
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(Extra Credit) The social Media Plug: It is genius (under What They Don't Teach You at B-school) to coincide a tweet with your RSVP.

 

What: Party where VCs woo and charm YOU.

How:
There will be three entry methods.

(1) -No Wait Line - People who have an eventbrite confirmation for themselves (no transfers, no substitutions, no excuses). Three hours prior, location will be texted to your EventBrite receipt cell phone number.

(2) -Big Bad Line- Queue is for people not on the list and not on the waitlist. This will be the most difficult way to enter.

(3) -Waitlist - People who did RSVP a text message into 650-283-8008 but were waitlisted and did pre-pay via EventBrite.

Tweet out this party, www.duck9.com/14
or http://bit.ly/vc0314

www.twitter.com/LarryChiang and www.twitter.com/sxswparties

 

* plus a secret celebrity co-host)

The last party was here:

LAST MIN RSVPs (press ONLY): Text message, the party secretary, Larry Chiang at 650-283-8008 Include your full name/twitter, title & blog URL +email address, #vcSecrets.

FOR example, text message from 925-342-xxxx:, "Mike Arrington / Editor -founder / tips@TechCrunch.com/ #vcSecrets". One entry per text message. I did the contest before Web 2.0 Summit too and the winner was picked on a blog called VentureBeat. One blogger per text message.

Q: Why is there so much mystery?
A: Its open ended and undefined... just like entrepreneurship.

Q: why do you do this?
A: I love entrepreneurs and host cool events that I wish I had when I started my biz

Q: text me your questions or email them: larry@duck9.com

News: It is sold out

Reverse VC Pitch Party

VCs are here to charm you.

Normally, you pitch VCs. Well at this event the VCs will be pitching you. Think of it as Sadie Hawkins night for entrepreneurs.

**************

"Best entrepreneur party ever"
- Larry Chiang
**************

This is launching at SXSW where we will be doing events in Seattle, LA, Chicago, NY, Vancouver, Palo Alto, Berkeley, San Francisco, Austin, Columbus, Bloomington and even Champaign IL.

 

Where: Downtown Austin. Address released with RSVP
Who: VCs, Associates, VC Admins, ex-VCs & future VCs* and funded entrepreneurs spilling VC secrets.
Party Secretary : *Larry Chiang
When: 9pm - 11:59pm, March 14, 2010

See who RSVPed (below at the bottom of this page): Here
http://bit.ly/vc0314

Cost: SOLD OUT

Capacity: 175.

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PRESS: If you're a blogger, you get the same great deal so don't gamble on a last minute press pass. I am limiting it to the 1st 25 bloggers. RSVPing on EventBrite gets you bloggers a link too :-)
Since it is sold out now, text me, @6502838008
*************

(Extra Credit) The social Media Plug: It is genius (under What They Don't Teach You at B-school) to coincide a tweet with your RSVP.

 

What: Party where VCs woo and charm YOU.

How:
There will be three entry methods.

(1) -No Wait Line - People who have an eventbrite confirmation for themselves (no transfers, no substitutions, no excuses). Six days prior, location will be texted and emailed to your EventBrite receipt email address.

(2) -Big Bad Line- Queue is for people not on the list and not on the waitlist. This will be the most difficult way to enter.

(3) -Waitlist - People who did RSVP a text message into 650-283-8008 but were waitlisted and did pre-pay via EventBrite.

Tweet out this party, www.duck9.com/14
or http://bit.ly/vc03014

www.twitter.com/LarryChiang and www.twitter.com/sxswparties

(Extra Credit) The social Media Plug: It is genius

 

* plus a secret celebrity co-host)