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ThinkEquity Hosts 2nd Annual "ThinkTomorrow~Today A Private Company And Venture Capital Summit"
SAN FRANCISCO, October 7, 2005 - ThinkEquity Partners (www.thinkequity.com), a research-centric investment firm, is hosting the 2nd Annual "ThinkTomorrow Today - A Private Company & Venture Capital Summit" on October 17-19, 2005 at the Ritz Carlton Half Moon Bay, California.
ThinkTomorrow~Today will include many of the most innovative private companies in the market today and top venture capitalists sharing their views of where the big opportunities are being created for the future. The instructive "ThinkAbout" and "ThinkAhead" format will consist of commentary from luminary venture capitalists and industry leaders including:
- Bill Campbell, Chairman of the Board, Intuit (INTU)
- Chris Sacca, New-Business Development, Google (GOOG)
- Kevin Harvey, Partner, Benchmark Capital
- Mike Homer, Founder and Chairman of Kontiki & Open Media Network
- Peter Currie, Special Advisor to General Atlantic LLC & former CFO of Netscape
- Edward Mathias, Managing Director, The Carlyle Group
- Jeff Ganek, CEO, NeuStar (NSR)
- Casey McGlynn, Partner, Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati
- Ali Aydar, COO, SNOCAP, Inc
- Matt Cohler, VP of Revenue, Facebook
- David Vockell, VP Advertising Strategy of Yahoo, Inc. (YHOO)
- Ali Partovi, CEO & Partner, GarageBand.com
- Steve Cakebread, CFO, Salesforce.com (CRM)
- Antony Brydon, CEO, Visible Path
- Danny Shader, CEO & President, Good Technology
The panels will delve into cutting edge topics such as:
- How to bring a company to life
- What we learned from Netscape - 10 years later
- Blown to bits: The new frontier of digital distribution
- Limbo Land: Where is the IPO bar today
- Alternative ways to raise capital
- How to best prepare for an IPO
- Nanotechnology and Stem Cells
- You're Rich...Now What? Unlocking the value of private stock: pre-liquidity planning
- Healthcare: Are we at the end or a new beginning?
- The rise of user-generated content on the web
- Views from the Buyside - PM's explain what they look for in a good public company
- How to build or convert a true on-demand software company
- Experiential branding
- Going down the Superhighway: WIFI / VOIP
- Where did the $ Go? The rapidly shifting ad dollar
Additionally, keynote presentation will be given by best-selling author and Forbes.com columnist Guy Kawasaki, who will offer pearls of wisdom from his book "Art of the Start" which is touted as "the definitive guide for anyone starting anything." Also headlining is reality media guru, Tony Perkins, Creator and Editor in Chief of AlwaysOn.
"ThinkEquity's mission is to identify and partner with the 'stars of tomorrow' in their industries," said Michael Moe, Co-Founder and CEO of ThinkEquity Partners. "Beyond just hosting this event, ThinkEquity will be an active participant in the conference by tapping into our 'ThinkTank' of industry experts and offering views of where the big opportunities are being created."
The conference will include an array of presentations from more than two-dozen of the hottest private companies in the growths sectors. Presenting companies include:
- Abrika
- Apollo Diamond
- Arbor Networks, Inc.
- ArcSight
- ARYx Therapeutics
- Authoria
- BitPass, Inc.
- BLISS
- cMarket
- Handmark
- Kontiki
- m-Qube
- Molecular Imprints
- NanoOpto Corp.
- Pay By Touch
- PTC Therapeutics
- PureVideo.com
- Reactrix Systems, Inc.
- SchoolNet, Inc.
- Shutterfly
- Visto
- Yodlee
- Zyvex
A full agenda of the event can be found by visiting http://www.thinkequity.com/about/conf/TTT_05.html.
About ThinkEquity
ThinkEquity is a research-centric institutional investment firm focused on the growth economy. ThinkEquity merger with Panmure Gordon in March 2007 provides its clients with global investment banking services. The firm is dedicated to providing focused insight, advisory services, and capital to institutional investors and corporate constituents in the knowledge economy's key growth verticals, including technology, healthcare, media/education and consumer/business services. For more information about ThinkEquity, please visit www.thinkequity.com. Member FINRA and SIPC.
For more information please contact:
Peter Coleman
Chief Operating Officer
ThinkEquity
415-249-2900
or
Jennifer Jones
650-529-1416
jennifer@jenniferjones.com