EECS 298-11: CAD Seminar Wednesday, March 13, 1996, 5pm 531 Cory Hall, Hogan Room Five Easy Questions from a Venture Capitalist Yogen Dalal Venture Partner Mayfield Fund Menlo Park, CA We are living in exciting times. Netscape stock was as high as $170 (before it split) and the Dow is well above the 5000 mark. Information technology is touching every aspect of our lives. Never before have we seen new IPOs, new startups, and mergers and acquisitions all happening at the same time and at an incredible pace. Are you ready to live the Silicon Valley dream and start a company? If so, what are the five most important questions a venture capitalist will ask you before financing your (ad)venture? About the speaker: Yogen K. Dalal is a General Partner at Mayfield Fund, a venture capital partnership in Menlo Park, and specializes in early-stage software and communications investments. He was a founding member of two successful start-ups, Claris Corporation and Metaphor Computer Systems. He was a member of the original Star and Ethernet development teams at Xerox, and a co-developer of the original TCP/IP protocols while at Stanford. He holds a PhD in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from Stanford University, and a BTech in Electrical Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology in Bombay. Upcoming seminars: Mar. 20: Tom Henzinger, UC Berkeley