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  <div class="vevent h-event"> <h1 class="summary p-name">PDX Lean Startup - True Ventures' Puneet Agarwal - An Early Stage VC's Perspective on Lean Startups</h1> <div class='date'><time class="dtstart dt-start" title="2010-09-28T18:00:00" datetime="2010-09-28T18:00:00">Tuesday, September 28, 2010 from 6</time>–<time class="dtend dt-end" title="2010-09-28T20:00:00" datetime="2010-09-28T20:00:00">8pm</time></div> <div class="location vcard p-location h-card"> <a class="url" href='http://calagator.org/venues/202391919'><span class='fn org p-name'>Collaborative Software Initiative Inc.</span></a> <div class="adr p-adr h-adr"> <div class="street-address p-street-address">1 SW Columbia Street, #640</div> <span class="locality p-locality">Portland</span> , <span class="region p-region">OR</span> <span class="postal-code p-postal-code">97258</span> <div class="country-name p-country-name">US</div> (<a href='https://maps.google.com/maps?q=1%20SW%20Columbia%20Street,%20%23640,%20Portland%20OR%2097258%20US'>map</a>) </div> </div> <div class="description p-description"> <p>Puneet Agarwal of True Ventures (investor in Portland's Urban Airship and Puppet Labs) will come to talk to us about his perspective on Lean Startups.</p> <p>He'll talk about:</p> <ul> <li><p>Whether or not True Ventures looks for Lean Startup Principles in prospective portfolio companies</p></li> <li><p>How True Ventures advises it's portfolio companies - how Lean Startup techniques fit</p></li> <li><p>The transition from "Lean to Fat" - getting from Lean Startup to Big Company</p></li> </ul> <p>Agenda 6:00 - 6:30 - Meet and Greet 6:30 - 8:00 - Puneet Talk and Discussion</p> <p>About Puneet</p> <p>Puneet brings a strong mix of operating and Venture Capital experience to the True team.</p> <p>Prior to joining True, Puneet was the VP of Product Management at Geodesic Information Systems, which specializes in mobile and Internet communication products selling to consumers, OEMs, carriers, and online properties. There he helped grow the company from $20M to over $80M in revenue in two years and learned valuable lessons about building a successful team in times of rapid growth. As part of his experience with Geodesic, Puneet lived and worked in India for seven months before settling back in their West Coast offices.</p> <p>Prior to Geodesic, Puneet spent four years at BEA Systems in a number of roles. Puneet ran product marketing for BEA’s JRockit product, traveled the world evangelizing BEA’s platform to CIOs and developers, and also conceived, initiated, and ran product management and marketing for BEA’s RFID initiative.</p> <p>Puneet began his career at an early stage integration software startup, Crossworlds Software, which was later sold to IBM. He then spent some time in the investment world in corporate finance and M&A in J.P. Morgan’s tech practice where he worked on several technology IPOs and acquisitions. Puneet also spent two years in Venture Capital at the Mayfield Fund helping to invest in early stage software deals. Puneet joined during the height of the bubble and endured during the downturn as well. It was during this latter period when he helped to lead Mayfield’s investment in Trigo, an early enterprise software company, which was later sold to IBM.</p> <p>At True, Puneet focuses on infrastructure and software applications specifically around cloud computing, open source, SaaS, and mobile. He currently sits on the board of LoopFuse.</p> </div> <h3>Links</h3> <ul> <li><a class="url u-url" href="http://www.meetup.com/PDX-Lean-Startup-Circle/calendar/14212362/?from=list&offset=0">Website</a></li> </ul> </div>