Finance4Founders June 18 Event Overview

Finance4Founders was delighted to host  over 70 people who attended an evening of discussion and collaboration with special guests Naval Ravikant co-founder of the Venture Hacks blog and Justin Fishner-Wolfson a principal of Founders Fund last June 18th.

Dan Martell and Dave Mclure, opened up the evening with introductions and a quick recap of their adventures on their recent Geeks on A Plane East Asian tour.

Dan and Dave briefly  recalled a funny incident involving a quarantine to one of their co-participants. Quarantines aside, Geeks on a A Plane was a successful and informative jaunt into the technology capitals of Tokyo, Beijing and Shanghai to explore pro-investment and pro-entrepreneur initiatives for the future.

Next was Justin Fishner-Wolfson’s presentation titled “Build A Company for the Long term- Control Your Own Destiny.” The presentation focused on the current funding climate, insights on lower valuation trends as well as useful management strategies and solutions. You can view Justin’s presentation slides below.

Naval Ravikant was up next  and discussed  “10 Unconditional Wisdoms,” for hacking ventures. Naval explained how valuation is temporary but control is forever and the benefit of negotiating from power as well as how business plans are not the end-all and be-all of startups. Naval’s slide presentation can be viewed below.

Tweets and feedback from the event gave those who missed it an idea of the proceedings. Below is a sampling of the enthusiastic reactions to the event.

“@Evan_suit_kiva_4_normal evbart Naval from venture hacks is killing it at #f4f great, honest advice for entrepreneurs bout being scrappy from UberTwitter.”

“@Profilepic_normal vsodera #f4f #fin4founders If you’re raising money, ask for advice (money will cone to you). If you ask for money, you’ll just get advice.  from Twitterrific.”

“@Sxsw_pic_normal Pietari As a former valley corporate attorney it’s very interesting to hear Founders Fund’s perspective on vc financing terms #f4f  from Tweetie.”

“Money_normal Fin4Founders RT @strappy1: Schmoozing 4 Dollars: Brief summary of great #f4f event. http://bit.ly/QC3Gs Thx @davemcclure @danmartell & all participants!  from HootSuite.”

“normal rfop #f4f THIS is how to do an event dinner!  from mobile web.”

“ deantak -finance4founders dinner was a very good event this evening. from web.”

Finance4Founders would like to thank everyone that participated and attended the event. Special thanks to our sponsors FoundersFund , Gunderson Dettmer and Google Ventures for their paramount support of our efforts.

We would also like to give special thanks to our media partners Venture Hacks and Venture Beat for their assistance.