Founders Drinks, an evening mixer with Tim Draper

by Joash Wee

e27 will be hosting a special edition of Founders Drinks with Venture Capitalist, Tim Draper this Friday, the 14 October 2011. Breaking away from the usual format of startup presentations only, we’ll be having a Silicon Valley style evening mixer with Tim Draper.

The mixer will be held at the newly opened The Studio Cocktail Bar. Featured on The Business Times, Fever Avenue, 8 Days and LifeStyleAsia.com, it’s been touted as one of Singapore’s best kept secrets. The intimate setting in the historic Kampong Glam district will lend itself to an evening mixer of great conversation and entrepreneurs connecting with fellow like minded entrepreneurs, angels and of course Tim himself.

This exclusive, one-time-only, business mixer event will begin at 7pm. Tickets will cost $22 when purchased online and $25 at the door (Cash Only). Ticket includes admission to The Studio and a beer to get your night started!

Click here to get your entry into this exclusive edition of Founders’ Drinks. Hurry capacity is limited!

Tim Draper’s Bio
Timothy C. Draper is the Founder and a Managing Director of Draper Fisher Jurvetson.  His original suggestion to use “viral marketing” in web-based e-mail to geometrically spread an Internet product to its market was instrumental to the successes of Hotmail and YahooMail, and has been adopted as a standard marketing technique by hundreds of businesses.  On behalf of Draper Fisher Jurvetson, Tim serves on the boards of DoAt, Glam, Meebo, Prosper, SocialText, and DFJ Plug ‘N Play companies.  DFJ’s previous successes include: Skype (EBAY), Overture.com (YHOO), Baidu (BIDU), Parametric Technology (PMTC), Hotmail (MSFT), PLX Technologies (PLXT), Preview Travel (TVLY), Digidesign (AVID), and others.

Tim launched the DFJ Global Network, an international network of early-stage venture capital funds with offices in over 30 cities around the globe. He founded or co-founded DFJ ePlanet (global), Draper Fisher Jurvetson Gotham (NYC), Zone Ventures (LA), Epic Ventures (Salt Lake City),  Draper Atlantic (Reston), Draper Triangle (Pittsburg), Timberline Ventures (Portland), Polaris Fund (Anchorage), DFJ Frontier (Sacramento and Santa Barbara), DFJ Vina Capital (Vietnam), and DFJ DragonFund (Shanghai).

As an advocate for entrepreneurs and free markets, Tim is regularly featured as a keynote speaker in entrepreneurial conferences throughout the world, has been recognized as a leader in his field through numerous awards and honors, and has frequent TV, radio, and headline appearances.  He was #52 on the list of the 100 most influential Harvard Alumni, and #7 on the Forbes Midas List. He was named Always-On #1 top venture capital deal maker for 2008.  He was awarded the Commonwealth Club’s Distinguished Citizen Award for achievements in green and sustainable energy. His blog is featured at www.theriskmaster.com.

Tim is the course creator and Chairman of BizWorld, a 501c3 organization built around simulated teaching of entrepreneurship and business to children. He also serves on the Harvard Business School Board of Dean’s Advisors.

Previously, Tim served on the California State Board of Education.  In November of 2000, Tim launched a statewide cyber-initiative on school choice for the California General Election.  He was a member of Singapore’s International Economic Council and Ukraine’s Orange Circle.  He was on the Board of U.C. Berkeley’s Haas School of Business.  He has a BS in Electrical Engineering from Stanford University, and an MBA from Harvard Business School.

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