TONIGHT: A screening of Something Ventured + Q&A with Nolan Bushnell in DTLA
Douglas Campbell
Monday, November 14th
Mindshare LA is Proud to Present a Special Screening of:
"Something Ventured: Risk, Reward, and the Original Venture Capitalists"
Drinks Specials 6:30pm | Screening & Q&A 7:30-9:30pm | Drinks Next Door at Jalisco
The Little Cart will be serving up gourmet food from 6:45pm onward.
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BONUS Q&A with Entrepreneur Nolan Bushnell Nolan is a seasoned entrepreneur who founded both Atari, Inc and the Chuck E. Cheese's Pizza-Time Theaters chain. Bushnell has been inducted into the Video Game Hall of Fame and the Consumer Electronics Association Hall of Fame, received the BAFTA Fellowship and the Nations Restaurant News “Innovator of the Year” award, and was named one of Newsweek's "50 Men Who Changed America." Bushnell has started more than twenty companies and is one of the founding fathers of the video game industry. He is currently the Co-Founder and Chief Game Designer of Anti-Aging Games, a website of games designed to stimulate the brain and created by Bushnell and two doctorate scientists.
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SOMETHING VENTURED tells the story of the creation of an industry that went on to become the single greatest engine of innovation and economic growth in the 20th century. It is told by the visionary risk-takers who dared to make it happen…Tom Perkins, Don Valentine, Arthur Rock, Dick Kramlich and others. The film also includes some of our finest entrepreneurs sharing how they worked with these venture capitalists to grow world-class companies like Intel, Apple, Cisco, Atari, Genentech, Tandem and others.
Beginning in the late 1950′s, this small group of high rollers fostered a one-of-a-kind business culture that encouraged extraordinary risk and made possible unprecedented rewards. They laid the groundwork for America’s start-up economy, providing not just the working capital but the guidance to allow seedling companies to reach their full potential. Our lives would be dramatically different without the contributions that these venture capitalists made to the creation of PCs, the Internet and life-saving drugs.
SOMETHING VENTURED was conceived by Paul Holland, a Silicon Valley venture capitalist. Paul, a general partner with Foundation Capital, is co-executive producer of the film along with Molly Davis of Rainmaker Communications. The film was directed by Emmy-Award-winning filmmakers Dan Geller and Dayna Goldfine.
"'Without venture capitalists,' Atari founder Nolan Bushnell says, 'the future wouldn't happen nearly so quickly.' 'Something Ventured' provides ample evidence to support Bushnell's claim."
--Variety
"A completely unashamed love-letter to capitalism and its virtues. Something to be celebrated with a bit of caution."
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Douglas Campbell
http://www.projectfresh.com