The Silicon Valley Entrepreneur Program is Astia's flagship offering to entrepreneurs, with programming that hones in on skills that high growth companies at any stage need for success. It is also a platform for companies to network among each other and forge connections with other members of Astia's extensive network of entrepreneurs, investors and experts.
 
Entrepreneurs will gain access to important introductions as well as critical skills and insight - such as knowledge about how to manage your board to the company's benefit, creating a strong culture, thinking through your capital strategy, navigating partnership and corporate relationships, and ultimately thinking through strategies to exit. Session topics are current, fresh and relevant. 

Agenda: Please click on the attachment below to view the full agenda.

Dates / Locations:
October 10 - October 13, 2011 - Microsoft Offices, 835 Market St, 7th Floor, San Francisco, CA 
October 14, 2011 from 9:00 AM to 2:00 PM - Reed Smith, 101 Second Street, San Francisco, CA 

Register by clicking on the link below
http://astia2011entrepreneurprogram.eventbrite.com/
*Please select 1 ticket for each day, and activity (Lunch, Reception, Life science Roundtable or General Session) you will attend. This will ensure adequate seating and meals/snacks are available.

About Astia
Guided by a proven philosophy that gender diversity is an essential element of innovation, Astia works with start-ups around the world as they access capital, grow their businesses, and hone the leadership skills of their founding teams.

The Astia model of engaging a community of experts to the benefit of the select start-ups it serves has resulted in an exceptional success rate: since 2003, ~60 percent of companies that have participated in the Astia Investor Forums have secured funding or achieved an exit within one year of presenting, totaling more than a billion dollars raised and 21 exits, including two IPOs.

Headquartered in San Francisco, Astia delivers programs for entrepreneurs in Silicon Valley, New York, London and India. Astia has also had significant press coverage in major media channels including The New York Times, Businessweek, Forbes and The Financial Times. For more information, visit http://www.astia.org/.