Sand Hill Road Series: Reliably Scaling Consumer Businesses @ Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & RosatiWednesday, July 21, 2010
Join the Wharton Club of Northern California in an exclusive session with Menlo Venture’s Shawn Carolan, where he focuses on investing in and building software and services companies. In this discussion, Shawn will discuss:
- Why it’s cheaper and easier than ever to build and launch a consumer company
- Scaling, on the other hand, is never easy
- What are the characteristics of the consumer companies that end up getting big, drawing on two recent Menlo Ventures success stories – TeleNav and Siri
Register Online Date: Wednesday, July 21, 2010
Time: 6:00pm-6:30pm Networking Reception & Registration. 6:30pm-7:30pm Program, Q&A.
Location: Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati,
650 Page Mill Road, Palo Alto, CA
Registration: WCNC members, members of affiliate clubs and their accompanied guests: $20 per person. Non-member alumni and other guests: $40 per person. Registrations after 4:00pm Tuesday, July 20th an extra $10 per ticket, if available. Cancellations after Tuesday, July 20th at the discretion of the WCNC. No charge for Wharton Club Gold Ticket Members (but remember as always to register via the above 'Register Online' link.)
About Shawn T. Carolan:Shawn joined
Menlo Ventures in 2002 and has focused primarily on connected software and services. He represents Menlo Ventures on the boards of IMVU, PlayPhone, Playspan, Roku, TeleNav (NASDAQ: TNAV) and YuMe. His prior investments and board seats include Siri, acquired by Apple (AAPL). Before joining Menlo, Shawn was a management consultant for Booz-Allen & Hamilton, after spending most of his career in software development and engineering management positions. He was Manager of Software Architecture for Open Port Technology, a start-up that created Internet-based messaging software for data carriers. Prior to that, Shawn worked at Motorola's Cellular Infrastructure Group and Wireless Data Group, Sprint PCS, and the University of Illinois' Center for Computational Electromagnetics. Shawn is a graduate of the Stanford University Graduate School of Business (M.B.A.) and the University of Illinois, Champaign (B.S. and M.S. in Electrical Engineering) and author of a US patent.
