Speaking Engagements

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Recent speaking engagements:

July 16, 2008 GenArt Special Advance Screening & Party for "August"
Entrepeneur Panel
July 15, 2008 Dealmaker Media - Strategy Series
"To VC or Not to VC: Taking money without giving up the farm"
May 16, 2008 TiEcon 2008
"The Trials and Tribulations of Starting a Company"
Moderator
March 18, 2008 VentureWire's Web Ventures 2008
March 10, 2008 UC Berkeley Haas School of Business
Entrepreneurship 295A
Feb. 20, 2008 SDForum Venture Finance SIG
"VC Meltdowns, Turnarounds and Shutdowns"
Feb. 7, 2008 IsraelWebTour
Closing Entrepreneur Panel
Feb. 6, 2008 Business Association of Stanford Engineering Students (BASES)
"Writing a Killer Executive Summary and Building the Ideal Team"
Jan. 29, 2008 WebGuild Web 2.0 Conference
"Community Building"
"The New Economics of Web Startups"
Dec. 7, 2007 KQED Forum
"Facebook Under Fire - Social Networking Privacy"
Dec. 6, 2007 SVASE Main Event
"Are We All On The Same Page? - Investors vs. Founders!"
Dec. 4, 2007 SDForum Java SIG
"Building High-Traffic Java-Based Web Sites"
Nov. 13, 2007 STIRR FounderHacks III
"Pages from the unwritten playbook"
Oct. 17, 2007 WebGuild
"Next Generation of Social Networking"
Sept. 11, 2007 San Francisco State University Student Association of Entrepreneurs
July 31, 2007 geekSessions
"Web Infrastructure: Surviving The 'Hockey Stick'"
July 14, 2007 Community Next
"Online Communities - To A Million and Beyond?"
July 12, 2007 SVASE Main Event
"Is Web 2.0 Over?"
June 22, 2007 CJAD Montreal
"Holder Tonight"
May 29, 2007 North Carolina Public Radio/American Public Media
"The Story"
May 10, 2007 National Technology Youth Leadership Conference - Queen's University, Canada
Keynote Speech
April 12, 2007 SVASE StartUp-U SFO
"Hiring The Best - Building The A Team For Your Start-up"
March 10, 2007 San Francisco Chronicle Tech Talk Podcast
"Creators of 'Lost' and Friendster examine how technology will change TV"
March 6, 2007 CNBC Closing Bell
"Social Networking Sizzles"
Feb 27, 2007 Tech Policy Summit
"Policy 2.0: Social Media and Government Regulation"
Feb 1, 2007 SVASE Main Event
"Funding 2.0 - Building Your Startup Fast And Cheap"
Nov 19, 2006 KTVU Ten O'Clock News
"Web 2.0"
Aug 8, 2006 TechCrunch "Web 2.0 video"
July 6, 2006 SVASE Main Event
"Internet Advertising Models: What’s Working, What’s Not, What’s Coming?"
Oct 13, 2005 SDForum/ANZA/CSPA Passport Program
"Social Networking 2.0"
April 21, 2005 AlwaysOn "On the Record" CEO Breakfast
"The New, New Media Market"
April 20, 2005 Young Entrepreneurs' Organization
April 3, 2005 USC Annenberg School for Communication On-line Communities Retreat
Feb. 16, 2005 SDForum Venture Finance SIG
"Raising Funding and Negotiating The Deal"
Oct. 14, 2004 Charlie Rose
Aug. 10, 2004 Harvard Business School Association of Northern California
"Founding and Growing Friendster"
July 14, 2004 Advertising Age Magazine Entertainment Marketers of the Year Awards Luncheon
Mar. 16, 2004 South by Southwest (SXSW) Interactive Festival
Keynote Speech
Feb. 21, 2004 Stanford Graduate School of Business Conference on Entrepreneurship
"Trends in Software"
Jan. 15, 2004 TechTV - Unscrewed with Martin Sargent
Dec. 30, 2003 NPR - All Things Considered
Nov. 3, 2003 CNBC Business Center
Oct. 16, 2003 American Cancer Society Futuring and Innovation Center
Oct. 14, 2003 Silicon Valley Association of Startup Entrepreneurs
""How to Do a Lot with a Little"
Sept. 17, 2003 San Jose State University Entrepreneurial Society
Sept. 16, 2003 MIT/Stanford Venture Lab
"Social Networking: Is there Really a Business Model?"
Sept. 10, 2003 Microsoft Research Social Computing Group
Sept. 4, 2003 The Commonwealth Club of California
"Urban Singles -- Hooking Up, Dating and Relationships in the City"
August 6, 2003 Jimmy Kimmel Live
August 2, 2003 BBC Radio 5
July 26, 2003 KNTV NBC11 - TechNow
July 19, 2003 KTLA WB - Kurt the Cyberguy
July 10, 2003 NPR - All Things Considered
June 23, 2003 TechTV - The Screen Savers
June 18, 2003 SDForum Venture Finance SIG
"An Evening with Sequoia Capital"
Moderator
May 20, 2003 TechTV - TechLive
May 6, 2003 SDForum Founders Forum
"To VC or not to VC, that is the question"
January 9, 2003 SVASE (Silicon Valley Association of Startup Entrepreneurs) Main Event
"Secrets of Profitable Internet Companies"
Moderator