Startup Day

An exclusive investors' meetup to share experiences, learn from others and create meaningful contacts. The event takes place on 23rd January at 3-7 PM and is accessible for Investor ticket owners only.

Agenda:

14.30 – 15.00 Registration & coffee
15.00 – 15.30 Fireside chat with Roger Dickey about his investment experiences

Roger Dickey is a founder of Gigster that provides companies of all sizes with on-demand access to expert teams for new technology software development. Clients include Nike, IBM, Google, Staples, Mastercard, Prudential, and Ebay. Gigster has raised $32.5M from Andreessen Horowitz, Redpoint Ventures, Greylock, and Bloomberg.

Previously Roger founded Curiosoft, creator of Dope Wars, and sold it to Zynga where he stayed almost for 4 years and created Mafia Wars which hit impressive 100M users and $300M in annual revenue. Mafia Wars pioneered crime gaming genre on Facebook. He kept his shares in Zynga and saw 100x increase before selling after Zynga’s IPO. Roger has a notable angel portfolio with some 50 investments including exits to Facebook and Google.

15.30 – 17.00 Investors' roundtables
17.00 – 17.30 Networking break   
17.30 – 18.00 Founders Psychology by Noa Matz, Founder of TeamDiligent

Noa is a Social Psychologist, expert in teamwork analysis and enhancement in the Israeli startups ecosystem, and founder of TeamDiligent company. TeamDiligent performs empirical assessments for VC investors as part of the due diligence process, regarding the psychological capacity of startups teams to achieve future success, through observations on team dynamics and personality profile of the founders.

In addition, Noa is an entrepreneurs’ mental coach; enhances entrepreneurs performance, bringing them back in the game, so they can successfully and consistently make high-risk decisions in stressful and uncertain conditions.

18.00 - 19.00 Group work & sharing experiences about teams due diligence, guided by Noa Matz
19.30 – sTARTUp Day Investor & Executive Day party