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QCon SF Keynote: Techie VC's Talk About Trends & Opportunities
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Summary
Kevin Efrusy and Salil Deshpande, two entrepreneurs and venture capitalists, talk about the elements of a successful investment, what makes a business successful or not, presenting three actual cases they have been involved with: Hyperic, G2One, SpringSource.
Bio
Kevin Efrusy is General Partner at Accel Partners, serving on the boards of Xensource, Genius, SpringSource, Terracotta, and Aptana. He also started Corio, acquired by IBM in 2005, and served as the first CEO of IronPlanet. Salil Deshpande is General Partner at Bay Partners, a venture firm with over 200 successful businesses and 11 funds. His recent investments: Grails, Groovy, Spring, dynaTrace
About the conference
QCon is a conference that is organized by the community, for the community.The result is a high quality conference experience where a tremendous amount of attention and investment has gone into having the best content on the most important topics presented by the leaders in our community. QCon is designed with the technical depth and enterprise focus of interest to technical team leads, architects, and project managers.
Mar 18, 2010