Upcoming Café - Tuesday, March 27
Early Stage Funding 101 - Preparing for, Attracting and Keeping Investments

Looking to grow by attracting early stage funding?  Attend this forum to learn:
•    How and when to start building relationships with investors
•    When to ask for funding (i.e. do you need a product? Paying customers? What’s the right stage?)
•    How to impress investors and get your first investment
•    Actions to take post-investment to put you on a path to success (i.e. how to report on
     milestones, track progress)

Speakers
Bruce Boehm- former US Venture Partners
Eric Boggs - Argyle Social
Jason Caplain - Southern Capitol Ventures
Chris Rogers- Juniper Networks

Program Details
Tuesday, March 27
11:30-12:00- Pizza and Registration
12:00-1:00- Presentation and Q&A

Location
The Classroom
American Underground in the American Tobacco Campus - Directions
334 Blackwell Street, Durham, NC, 27701

 

Fee and Registration
Free for CED MembersNon-Members - $20 Advance / $30 on-site
Pizza and beverages will be provided

Bruce Boehm
Bruce Boehm is an independent venture capitalist and an adviser to several specialty venture capital funds. He teaches Venture Capital Management and helped invent the Venture Capital Investment Competition at UNC Kenan-Flagler.  He was a general partner of U.S. Venture Partners in Menlo Park, Calif., with responsibility for a portfolio of approximately 20 health-care and technology investments. He also worked as an engineer and project manager for a number of Silicon Valley and Route 128 companies. He has served as a director of more than 25 publicly and privately held companies.

He taught in the technology, education, and commercialization program at North Carolina State University from 1996-99. He created and directed the master's of engineering management program at the University of Canterbury in Christchurch, New Zealand, from 1992-96.   Mr. Boehm received an MBA and MS from Stanford University, and a BS from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Eric Boggs

Eric Boggs is the Founder and CEO at Durham-based Argyle Social, a SaaS social media marketing platform.  Argyle powers social marketing campaigns for hundreds of small and medium businesses around the world.

Prior to starting Argyle, Eric was employee #1 and part of the leadership team at Bronto Software, an email marketing automation software provider. At Bronto, Eric lead sales, marketing, and product efforts that laid the foundations for Bronto’s growth from 3-person start-up to 100-employee powerhouse.

Eric has a BS in Business Administration from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and an MBA from UNC’s Kenan-Flagler Business School, where he was a Dean’s Fellow.

 

 

 

Jason is a general partner and co-founded Southern Capitol Ventures after spending two years at Red Hat (NYSE:RHT), the world's premier open source and Linux provider. There, he directed the company's global budgeting process, provided financial analysis for the successful IPO in August 1999 and performed due diligence on many of the company's acquisitions. Prior to Red Hat, Jason was at Harrison Hurley and Company, an investment banking and business-consulting firm headquartered in Providence, RI.

Jason currently serves on the boards of ReverbNation and Zift Solutions and is also a board observer for eTix, WeddingWire and DoublePositive Marketing Group. Previously, he was on the board of Synthematix (acquired by Symyx Technologies NASDAQ:SMMX) and a board observer for Batanga (merged with Planeta Networks.) He was also on the Executive Committee of the board of directors at CED which is the largest entrepreneurial support organization in the nation. While at Southern Capitol Ventures, he has had several interim roles with portfolio companies including CFO and Director of Business Development.

Jason has received the Triangle Business Journal's "40 under 40" leadership award and was named in 2009 by TechJournal South as one the Southeast's Internet Mavens. He is a Guest Lecturer as part of the Engineering Entrepreneurs Program at NC State University. Jason received his BS in Finance from Bentley College. Jason's blog is Southeast VC.

Chris Rogers

Chris is sales director at Juniper Networks (JNPR) where he is responsible for the Telecommunications Industry sector alliance between Juniper and IBM driving all aspects of go-to-market activities and joint customer engagements for Juniper solutions within the IBM Communications Services Provider Industry framework. Previously Chris was General Manager of Raychem Corporation, North American Electrical and Utilities Division responsible for divisional P&L and leadership of the executive team driving products, manufacturing, operations, sales and marketing. He was a member of the executive team during two successful public offerings at Antec (ARRS) and Airpspan (AIRO) and at Funk Software that was acquired by Juniper Networks in 2006. At Antec, now Arris, he served as Vice President of International Business Development responsible for the leadership of the global sales organization.  At Airspan, Chris was responsible for developing a benchmark customer base in North America leading up to the IPO. Chris earned a Bachelor of Applied Science in Electrical Engineering from University of Waterloo, Canada and a Diploma in Strategic Marketing  from Harvard Business School.