2010 NECINA Entrepreneurship Seminar 10/14

[Harry Gao]

To all,

I will host following 2010 NECINA Entrepreneurship Seminar, titled

“Lies people tell about entrepreneurship”

Venue: IBM Innovation Center, 404 Wyman Street, Waltham, MA 02454
Time: 6:30 pm – 9:00 pm, Thursday, October 14th, 2010
RSVP: http://www.acteva.com/booking.cfm?bevaid=210698
(Free for members; $10 for general public; free parking at north
entrance)

Visit www.necina.net in case you can not register. Thanks.

To be an entrepreneur, you have to be an optimist against the odds
when creating a new company. What would hinder your progress? What
would people tell you and what would you believe in? We are fortunate
to have Jo Tango, Founder and Partner from Kepha Partners, to share
his thoughts on being an entrepreneur. Please come and share your
thoughts in our discussion.

Agenda
6:30 - 7:00 Registration and networking (refreshment served)
7:00 - 7:10 Welcome remarks by event organizer
7:10 - 8:00 "Lies people tell about entrepreneurship"
Jo Tango, Founder and Partner, Kepha Partners
8:00 - 8:30 Open floor discussion
8:30 - 9:00 Networking

About the Speaker
Jo Tango founded Kepha Partners. He has invested in the e-commerce,
search engine, Internet ad network, wireless, supply chain software,
storage, database, security, on-line payments and data center
virtualization spaces.

He has been a founding or first institutional investor in AutoVirt,
Azuki Systems, Bit9, ExaGrid, StreamBase Systems, Vertica Systems,
Virtual Iron (acquired by Oracle) and VoltDB, getting involved nearly
always at the company inception phase. Other investments include Ask
Jeeves (Nasdaq: ASKJ), Digital Market (acquired by Agile Software),
and NextCard (Nasdaq: NXCD).

Jo previously was at Highland Capital Partners for nearly 9 years,
where he was a General Partner. He also spent five years with Bain &
Company, where he was based in Singapore, Hong Kong and Boston, and
focused on technology and start-up projects.
Jo attended Yale University (B.A., summa cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa)
and Harvard Business School (M.B.A., Baker Scholar). He serves on the
board of NECINA (New England Chinese Information and Network
Association) and is very active with the MIT Deshpande Center. He has
served as Co-Chair of his Harvard Business School class 5th, 10th and
15th reunions and is on the leadership team for his Yale 20th reunion.

Jo is passionate about start-ups and loves working with entrepreneurs
who dare to strive. Jo and his family emigrated from Indonesia with a
few suitcases, $1,500, and the hope for a better life.

Event Organizer:
NECINA (New England Chinese Information and Networking Association) is
a premier hi-tech professional association founded in 1996 by some of
New England's most successful IT industry entrepreneurs such as
founders of Cascade Communications, Sycamore Networks, and ArrowPoint
Communications. Its mission is to provide a platform to foster
entrepreneurship and leadership by combining the leading edge
technologies with best business practices. In the past 14 years,
NECINA has delivered high quality conference programs and networking
events to its increasingly diversified members in an effort to
maximize their awareness and involvement in new technologies and
emerging business opportunities.