Angel Knowledge Series
Keynote SpeakerMitch Kapor
"Seed Stage Investing with a Social Impact"
Bio.
Mitch Kapor founded Lotus and created Lotus 1-2-3, co-founded the Electronic Frontier Foundation; he was the first Chair of Mozilla (Firefox), he was a founding angel in UUNET (now Verizon's internet backbone), first Chair of Linden Lab (Second Life), and angel funded a large number of successful startups such as Twilio, Odeo (Twitter), StumbleUpon, bitly, Uber, Asana, Clever, Class Dojo and many more. As an interesting sidenote he was a key designer of the modern spreadsheet.
Agenda.
1. Seed stage investing with a social impact.
2. Gap Closing or Gap Widening?
3. Examples and Trends
4. Does it Mean Sacrificing Returns?
Q&A
- Future hot sectors in impact investing?
- Philosophy on investing in Incremental Improvements vs Big Ideas
- Thoughts on the long haul vs early exits?
- Privacy rights related to the NSA/Snowden
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