Are investors and VCs investing in social networking startups? In Drupal based startups?

There are many ways to catch the Drupal wave - offering Drupal development and installation services, using Drupal to add social publishing capabilities to an existing web site, or building a new business based on Drupal, to name just a few. Saj Cherian (Valhalla Partners), Sean Greene (LaunchBox Digital & Rock Creek Ventures), Chuck Shotton (Pulse Media Group), and Guillermo Söhnlein (Space Angels Network) will discuss the current business and investment opportunities available in the social publishing and Drupal spaces.

This event is free and does not require registration.

August 12, 2008 6PM EDT - 8PM EDT (followed by networking)

Teqcorner, LLC. - 3rd Floor Conference Room
1616 Anderson Road
McLean, Virginia 22102

Saj Cherian is a Principal at Valhalla Partners. Prior to joining Valhalla Partners, Saj led wireless strategy and business development for NBC Universal, the General Electric media division, he was Director of New Data Services for Virgin Mobile USA, and Saj was a management consultant at McKinsey & Company. He has a M.Phil. in European Politics and Society from the University of Oxford, Lincoln College and an A.B. from Princeton University's Woodrow Wilson School for Public and International Affairs.

Sean Greene is the Co-Founder of LaunchBox Digital and a co-founder and managing director of Rock Creek Ventures. Prior to LaunchBox Digital Sean was the founder and CEO of the Away Travel Network, and a senior engagement manager at McKinsey & Co. He has an MBA from the Yale School of Management and an AB from Princeton University, and was named a Fulbright Scholar at the National University of Singapore.

Chuck Shotton is the CTO, Pulse Media Group. He has served as CEO, CTO, VP of Engineering, and Chief Architect for start-ups, Fortune 500 businesses, and several turn-arounds. Chuck has a Bachelors in Computer Science.

Guillermo Söhnlein is a Managing Director at the Space Angels Network. Prior to the Space Angels Network he was with an online service helping commuters to share rides, a mobile games distribution platform, a Web-based communication suite for small and mid-sized businesses, and a San Francisco-based speech recognition application development firm. He served on active duty in the United States Marine Corps as a Judge Advocate and currently serves on various Advisory Boards and teaches entrepreneurship. Guillermo has an A.B. in Economics from the University of California at Berkeley and a J.D. from the University of California Hastings College of the Law.