Entrepreneur Immersion Program
HyeTech EIP 2019
February 15-24, 2019 Los Angeles and Silicon Valley
10
Days
15
Participants
30
Sessions
11
Visits
Participant startups
Program
Startup founders met successful entrepreneurs and investors, received presentations on various business topics and advice. Important components of the program were visits to accelerators and investment firms and hearing from the first source what investors are looking at and what are the changes in the venture capital that entrepreneurs should be aware of in 2019. The program culminated into a pitching competition on Feb 22.
The main focus of the Program was on:
First sales
setup and turn on sales engine
Fundraising
design and execute fundraising strategy
Growth
maintain and grow team in different countries
Visits
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Speakers
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Al Eisaian
Co-founder and CEO of IntelinAir
Interview
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Allan Young
Co-founder and Chairman at Pavo IoT
Brand Building in the US Market
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Armen Berjikly
Senior Director of Growth Strategy at Ultimate Software
Building Teams
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Armen Margarian
Co-founder and CEO of AppearMe and NexusLab
Legal Session
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Artyom Poghosyan
CEO and Co-founder at Britive
Building and exiting a company: how it works
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Bertram Meyer
Co-founder and CEO at OneDome Global
European founders built a class-leading US company
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Hamlet Azarian
Growth hacking Expert
Growth hacking strategies frameworks and tactics
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Ian McFarland
Executive, Global Solutions Delivery at ConsenSys
Building cross-border teams
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Lara Lagerquist
Sr. Director of Creative, Janie and Jack at Gymboree Group
Branding in US
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Laura Biliazarian
Venture Partner at SaaStr Fund
First Sales and Cross-border growth
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Levon Brutyan
Founder and CEO of Collectly.co
Networking and building relationships in US
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Mariam Hambarchyan
Lead User Researcher at NeoSensory, Inc.
Habit forming products
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Nerses Ohanyan
SVP of Customer Success at Vineti
Startup Charm School: Do's and Don'ts
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Nina Achadjian
Principal at Index Ventures
Investor deck design and presentation
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Raffi Krikorian
CTO at the Democratic National Committee
Lunch
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Ronald Weissman
Chairman, Software Industry Group at Band of Angels
How Venture capital works and Silicon valley
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Shahan Khoshafian
Mentor at Runway: The Innovation Hub
Sales for early stage startups
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Stephen Edmondson
Director of Paid Media at Four15 Digital
Top 10 tips for startups looking to start paid advertising
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Suren Markosian
CEO and Co-founder of Epic
Journey of Epic and challenges: how I dealt with them
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Taron Lizagub
Founder and CEO at Knoxlabs
Hustling right: Knoxlabs story
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Tigran Shahverdyan
Co-founder and CTO at Robomart
Lessons learned from RoboCV
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Tigran Sloyan
CEO at CodeSignal
Early stage fundraising
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Tushar Makhija
Early stage SaaS executive
Learn. Unlearn. Learn. Getting to your first $1M ARR
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Vach Hovsepyan
VP of Customer Success at ServiceTitan
Setting up and scaling Customer Success in vertical SaaS
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Vahe Baloilian
Strategic Adviser at BetConstruct
Growing out of Armenia
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Zach Noorani
Partner at Foundation Capital
VC trends in 2019 and beyond
Sponsors and partners
They make it happen
As well, personal contributions were received from Gohar Galyan, Berge Ayvazian, Davit Baghdasaryan, Artavazd Minasyan and Laura Bilazarian.