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Friday, March 13 • 5:00pm - 6:00pm
Unicorn #2: How Entrepreneurs Choose the Next Idea

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How do serial entrepreneurs who have created companies worth hundreds of millions or billions of dollars approach their second and third startup? What’s different the second time around?
We’ve got four incredible serial entrepreneurs that have created companies such as Barracuda Networks, Convio, Tivoli and WP Engine on stage to share their secrets. Each one will first give a two-minute pitch for his first company and then a two-minute pitch for his most recent company. Then we’ll have 30 minutes of Q&A about what they’ve learned and how they went about finding and evaluating their latest startup idea.
Panelists include:
Dean Drako, founder of Barracuda Networks & Eagle Eye Networks
Bob Fabbio, founder of Tivoli, White Glove Health, eRelevance Corp
Jason Cohen, founder of Smart Bear Software & WP Engine
Vinay Bhagat, founder of Convio & TrustRadius
Presented by Capital Factory

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Speakers
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Vinay Bhagat

Founder & CEO, Trustradius
Vinay is Founder and CEO of TrustRadius - a site which is rapidly becoming the venue that professionals buying business software turn to for candid, in-depth insights from peers. Think of TrustRadius as a Yelp for business software or a community based alternative to research analysts... Read More →
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Jason Cohen

Founder, CEO, WP Engine
Jason has built four software startups, both bootstrapped and funded, both alone and with co-founders, built all to more than $1m in annual revenue, sold two, and is currently the CTO of the fourth, http://WPEngine.com, with 230 employees in Austin, Texas and expecting to double in... Read More →
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Dean Drako

Pres & CEO, Eagle Eye Networks
Dean Drako left Barracuda Networks in 2012 to found Eagle Eye Networks and lead it to be the first cloud-based video surveillance company to provide both cloud and on-premise recording. Previously, as founder, president and CEO of Barracuda Networks, Dean created the industry’s... Read More →
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Bob Fabbio

Founder/CEO, Erelevance Corp
Mr. Fabbio is characterized as a visionary and successful serial entrepreneur. He has founded and built multiple industry-leading healthcare and technology companies by identifying large emerging markets, gaining intimate knowledge of the market needs, challenging conventional wisdom... Read More →


Friday March 13, 2015 5:00pm - 6:00pm CDT
Hilton Austin Downtown Salon G

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