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Market4Demand Marketing Educational Series for Entrepreneurs, June 27, 2006
Cindy Padnos will speak on a panel titled "Acquiring Reference Customers: How to Attract Your First Customers in an Emerging Enterprise." The panel of experts will enrich attendees with practical information and insights that they can use to acquire their own reference customers.  Specifically, advice will be given on how to: obtain orders for immature products from visionary early adopters, clarify goals for revenue and reference-able customers, develop crisp value propositions to gain executive access, target the right executive titles to minimize sales cycles, generate ideal customer criteria to maintain focus, measure customer commitment to maximize sales effectiveness, and develop an effective, iterative sales process.

FountainBlue C-Level Connections Event, March 17, 2006
Cindy Padnos will speak on a panel titled "Trends in 2006: What to Expect and How to Plan" with the panelists sharing their knowledge and insights on the trends in 2006, emphasizing what executives can expect in 2006, and how to best plan for these occurrences.

User Generated Content and the Future of Media, January 17, 2006
Sponsored by MIT/Stanford Venture Laboratory (VLAB)
Randy Haykin will moderate a panel on the new world of media where uses are creators and consumers of content. The proliferation of online connectivity, the digitization of content, and the availability of content creation tools is putting media power in the hands of consumers. User generated content - podcasting, blogging, and video-blogging - has emerged as a vastly growing market. Some would argue that adoption and buzz is unrivalled even by Internet standards.

Interactive Local Media, ILM:05, Nov. 30 ­ Dec. 2, 2005
Hosted by The Kelsey Group
Randy Haykin will speak on the panel "The Local Landscape: What Do the VCs See?" addressed what the VC perspective is on the companies that are trying to seize first-mover advantages in the local space including, social networking/search, and wireless.

Venture & Technology Conference, December 2, 2005
Cindy Padnos and Joseph Goldberg will participate as judges of business ideas at this Forum sponsored by the Silicon Valley Business Journal.

Under the Radar, November 16, 2005
Three of Outlook Ventures portfolio companies presented at this IBDN sponsored conference including, ClairMail, GraniteEdge, and Reconnex.

The Entrepreneurs' Gathering: Funding Realities, November 8, 2005
Cindy Padnos participated as a panelist, judging business presentations by entrepreneurs at this VC Task Force and VentureArchetypes sponsored event.

5th Annual WTC Entrepreneur Conference, November 1, 2005
Cindy Padnos reviewed participants' business plans prior to this conference and participated as panelist at this one-day conference that features women-led technology driven company presentations.

5th Annual Silver & Gold Venture Capital Conference, October 18-19, 2005
Hosted by Golden Capital Network
Outlook Ventures principal, Sandeep Aneja, was on the Finalist Showcase Panel, evaluated the top presenting companies from the conference. The panel was hosted by Gayle Crowell of Warburg Pincus and included other top-tier venture firms.

Outlook Ventures Marketing Roundtable, September 7, 2005
Outlook Ventures hosted its portfolio companies' executives at a Marketing Roundtable on September 7, 2005. The objective of the Marketing Roundtable was to facilitate sharing of best practices among portfolio companies.

Meeting of the Minds, June 14th 2005
On June 14th 2005, over 160 CEO-level entrepreneurs and other prominent guests joined the Outlook Team for the semi-annual Meeting of the Minds (MoM). The event was held at Pacific Athletic Club in Redwood City and was highlighted by a panel discussion moderated by Cindy Padnos on the topic: "Getting the Business Model Right". Our panelists included Peter Thiel, (Founder/Chairman, CEO of PayPal, now Chairman of Clarium), David Alberga (Founder/CEO, The Active Network), Reid Hoffman (Founder/Chairman, CEO of LinkedIn) and Gunjan Sinha (Chairman of MetricStream, former CEO/Founder of eGain and WhoWhere). The speakers shared their experiences on adapting business models based on changing times and markets and discussed their perspectives on what kinds of business models it will take for a startup, be it consumer or enterprise focused, to be successful today.

Meeting of the Minds, October 20th 2004
On October 20th 2004, over 120 CEO-level entrepreneurs and other prominent guests joined the Outlook Team for the semi-annual Meeting of the Minds (MoM). The event was held at Pacific Athletic Club in Redwood City and was highlighted by a panel discussion moderated by Carl Nichols on the topic: "Paving a Path to Liquidity". Our panelists included Ramneek Bhasin, founder of Vialto (acquired by Cisco), Kenn Guernsey, Managing Partner of the law firm Cooley Godward, Clay Corbus, CEO of WR Hambrecht and Co (pioneered the platform behind the recent Google IPO auction), Jerry Newman, Bear Stearns (30 year veteran of over 300 M&A and IPO transactions) and Paul Crisci, Managing Director, Broadview's Silicon Valley office. Panelists discussed how startups could position themselves for either M&A or IPO, the challenges they face going through the process and how they choose between exit options.

Software 2004 Conference
Outlook Ventures, along with five-time CEO, Don Massaro, presented a workshop at the San Francisco-based Software 2004 conference, sponsored by the Sand Hill Group. With over 1200 attendees, the conference attracted many start-up CEOs along with their management teams, corporate software executives and investors. Outlook's presentation," Solving Problems with Teams" presented a simple way to organize the group process of identifying problems, breaking them into manageable steps and leading a start-up team through the analysis, brainstorming and implementation of solutions.

Meeting of the Minds, June 3rd 2004
On June 3rd 2004, over 120 CEO-level entrepreneurs and other prominent guests joined the Outlook Team for the semi-annual Meeting of the Minds (MoM). The event was held at Pacific Athletic Club in Redwood City and was highlighted by a panel discussion moderated by Randy Haykin on the topic: "Getting the Most out Of Your Series A Investment." Our panelists included Mark Goldstein (former CEO of ImpulseBuy Network, CEO of Bluelight.com, and currently CEO of InStorecard), Karl Jacob (Co-Founder Keen.com and current CEO of CloudMark) and Chris Risley (former CEO of ON Technology, CEO of NewChannel, and current CEO of Nominum). The speakers shared their approaches, strategies and lessons learned taking a company through a successful Series A investment and beyond. David Cowan, Managing Partner at Bessemer Venture Partners, who has funded many Series A and has several times incubated and co-founded companies (e.g., Verisign, Visto) joined the panel as well.

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