Congrats!  You just raised money from angels, VCs and the hedge fund guy down the street.  Everyone wants to be helpful, but you've never ran a board meeting, nor have you ever been responsible for this much OPM (other people's money).  How do you get the most out of your investors and create a great working relationship with your investors?   Rob Hayes from First Round Capital and Jason Goldberg from Fab.com will talk about best practices and lessons learned for a productive working relationship between entrepreneurs and investors.

Location:

NYU Stern, room 1-70
44 West 4th Street
New York, NY 10012

Rob Hayes, First Round

Rob joined First Round Capital in 2006.  He has worked on FRC's investments in Mint, SimpleGeo, Uber, and Homerun, among others.  He came to First Round Capital from Omidyar Network where he was their first venture investor.  He led most of Omidyar Network's initial venture capital deals and later built and ran the technology investing group.

Prior to joining Omidyar Network in 2004, Rob was at Palm where he started up their corporate venture fund.  While in that role he also managed the strategy effort around Palm OS that led to the spinout of PalmSource.  Rob started at Palm as product manager for the initial device-independent releases of Palm OS.  During this time, Rob was responsible for the versions of Palm OS on dozens of devices including the initial Treo products.

Jason Goldberg, Fab.com

Jason Goldberg is the founder and CEO of Fab.com. Fab.com, launching spring 2011, features daily design inspirations and sales at up to 70% off retail.

Goldberg founded socialmedian, a social news network the connects people with personalized news and information (http://www.socialmedian.com/). On December, 19 socialmedian was sold to XING, one of the biggest Business Networks. Following the sale of socialmedian, Goldberg was the Chief Product Officer at XING in 2009.

Previously Goldberg founded Jobster in 2004 (which he left in late 2007). Goldberg is also an investor in TweetDeck and an advisor to several startups, including: onething.com and chime.in.