Workshop organizer profile: Fred Destin

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Fred Destin will be hosting a workshop at Lift10 entitled Hacking Venture Capital.

Fred is a venture capitalist and one of the partners at Atlas Venture where he focuses primarily on early-stage investments in disruptive consumer-facing innovation.

He sits on the boards of Seatwave, DailyMotion, Zoopla, PriceMinister and KDS. He previously co-ran OM Technology Investments where he served on the board of numerous companies including SGI-spinoff Kasenna, Xerox-PARC spinoff Inxight Software (acquired by BOBJ), CapitalIQ (acquired by S&P) and Rainfinity (acquired by EMC).

Fred's workshop at Lift will focus on two-way conversations on the social contract between entrepreneur and venture capitalist as well as hands-on advice about raising money and developing a strong relationship with your investors.

The core attraction about this workshop is that it comes from the trenches. Fred has been in the business for over 10 years and has heard 100's of pitches, and invested in over 20 startups. No bullshit, no excuses, no mercy :-)

The 2-hour workshop will be split into two sessions:
a/ how to pitch and get through the process to an offer
b/ how to negotiate your deal

Sign up for his workshop here.