VSVN Meeting for September

Vietnamese Silicon Valley Network presents:

"How to Transform Your Strengths and Passion into Revenues"

The job market has changed, competition is stiffer, and good jobs are
hard to find. Making the right moves is critical to achieving results.
You know what you want to do with your life, but how do you get there?
What's working, especially in this market? You have the right talents
and skills but how do you present it on your resume?
Vietnamese Silicon Valley Network presents:

"How to Transform Your Strengths and Passion into Revenues"

The job market has changed, competition is stiffer, and good jobs are
hard to find. Making the right moves is critical to achieving results.
You know what you want to do with your life, but how do you get there?
What's working, especially in this market? You have the right talents
and skills but how do you present it on your resume?

Now a certified career coach, Randy Block was a recruiter in the
high-tech industry for over 30 years. He will give us an update on
important trends in the job market and talk about how you can realize
your career goals, visions, and desires.

Date/Time: Tuesday, September 10th, 6 - 8:30 p.m.
(PLEASE NOTE THIS IS NOT OUR USUAL MONTHLY
SCHEDULE)

Location: Silicon Valley Bank
5101 Patrick Henry Drive
Santa Clara, CA 95048

Cost: (pre-registered); (walk-ins);
(students)

Sponsors: Pillsbury Winthrop LLP
Silicon Valley Bank

RSVP required to: <info@vsvn.net
<http://us.f116.mail.yahoo.com/ym/Compose?To=info@vsvn.net&YY=87313&orde
r=down&sort=date&pos=0&view=a&head=brief> > or http://www.vsvn.org

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About the Speaker: RANDY BLOCK

Randy Block brings expertise in executive search as a certified career
coach. He has guided all levels of professionals in the areas of career
transition: changing careers, choosing a career direction,
evaluating/negotiating offers, executive career marketing, finding jobs,
getting organized, as well as
finding opportunities for self-employment, freelancing and consulting.

Before starting his own business, Block served as vice president of a
search firm managing a small group of senior recruiters in the high tech
industry. Prior to that, he held senior staffing positions with small
high tech firms.

He holds a BS degree in Marketing and Business from Cornell University.
Randy has been a featured speaker and a presenter at the International
Career Conferences for Career Masters Institute. He holds an IJCTC
(International Job and Career Transition Coach) certificate from the
Career Planning
and Adult Development Network and a CCMC (Certified Career Management
Coach) certificate from Career Coach University. He is an active
Advisory Board Member of the Career Masters Institute and a Senior
Executive Coach Associate of Corporate Warriors. He has successfully
completed advanced courses
in resume writing, stress management, coaching ADHD professionals,
career transition coaching and negotiating.

About our sponsors:

PILLSBURY WINTHROP, LLP:
Formed in 2001 by the merger of Pillsbury Madison & Sutro LLP and
Winthrop, Stimson, Putnam & Roberts, our experience spans three
centuries. Today, Pillsbury Winthrop LLP has approximately 800 lawyers
in 16 locations, including 300 corporate and securities lawyers, 250
intellectual property and technology lawyers and 250 attorneys who
handle complex and international litigation.

Pillsbury Winthrop is a global firm with power and presence on both U.S.
coasts and abroad. Our Firm provides our clients with the strength of
Silicon Valley and Wall Street, the power of financial innovation and
world wide technology know-how, and a commitment to top flight
cross-border service and responsiveness. With offices in major capital
finance and technology centers throughout the world, and using a team
based client service model, we are positioned to provide our clients
with 24/7 coverage seamlessly wherever they need us. We counsel clients
on all aspects of global business, technology transactions, and
intellectual property protection. Our experience and depth in more than
30 practice areas allows us to help our clients handle both old and new
economy issues.

Our clients benefit from our vast experience with a wide range of
traditional legal services across many industries. Our attorneys work in
teams to deliver creative solutions for our clients. We have over 150
formal client teams, each with a team leader and firm intranet sites to
coordinate activities within client teams. We also have practice and
industry teams that help attorneys and clients stay on top of
developments in the law. Our practice areas focus on industries, such
as financial institutions, technology, media and advertising,
restaurant, food and beverage and energy; as well as areas of law, such
as mergers and acquisitions, insolvency and restructuring, litigation
and intellectual property.

SILICON VALLEY BANK:
For almost 20 years, Silicon Valley Bank has provided innovative banking
products and services to fast-growth and middle-market companies in the
technology and life science industries. We're a billion commercial
bank headquartered in Silicon Valley with offices across the United
States. Over the years, we've banked more than 30,000 entrepreneurial
companies, and currently, we have nearly 10,000 clients. We also have
client and VC relationships throughout Asia, Australia, Europe, India,
and Israel.

Over the last two decades, Silicon Valley Bank has become a respected
name in the banking industry. We've developed creative solutions for
some of the most successful technology startups and life science
companies in the world. In the year 2000, nearly one-third of all
technology and life science company IPOs were SVB clients. We were
ranked Top Performing Bank by U.S. Banker for the year 2000, and Fortune
ranked the Bank 78th in its 100 Fastest-Growing Companies in 2001
listing.

Going forward, we continue to serve our clients through all stages of
their development and in all kinds of market situations. As our
long-time clients know, competitors may come and go, but we're committed
for the long term.


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Other events:

CSPA PRESENTS:

Date: Wednesday, September 25, 2002, Palo Alto

TLF Seminar: Everything You Need to Know About Startup Management ...

Time: 8am-9:30am (7:30am-8am registration)

Location: Brobeck law office, 2000 University Ave, East Palo Alto, CA
94303

Cost: if pre-reg by Sep 20, after Sep 20

(Seating limited to the first 100 pre-registrations)

http://www.kikihome.com/leadershipforum/signup.htm

E-mail: TLForum@yahoo.com
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order=down&sort=date&pos=0&view=a&head=brief>

Description:

Are you an aspiring entrepreneur who wants to learn the practicalities
of building a sustainable company? Or have you already taken the plunge
and want to pick up some valuable lessons on surviving and thriving in
leading a startup company? Or are you just curious about what it takes
to execute and achieve results in a startup environment?

If so, you definitely would want to sign up for this seminar by Shomit
Ghose, Venture Coach at ONSET Ventures, who participated in the
successful IPOs of Sun Microsystems and BroadVision. Hell address the
practicalities of building a sustainable company. Learning how to
execute brilliantly including:

How to set goals
How to apply numerical measures to gauge operational success
Strengthening internal communication
No-Fail hiring strategies


Speaker Bio:

Shomit Ghose joined ONSET Ventures in 2001, after 19 years of working at
high-tech companies in the Silicon Valley. During his career he
participated in several successful IPOs, including those of Sun
Microsystems and Broadvision.

Most recently, he was Senior Vice President of Operations at Tumbleweed
Communications, where he managed the marketing, professional services
and corporate development departments. He helped the company through a
successful IPO in 1999. He was Vice President of the Worldwide
Professional Services Organization at BroadVision, and participated in a
successful IPO in 1996.

His first job was as network protocol engineer at Metaphor Computer
Systems, a company acquired by IBM. Later, he was a kernel software
engineer at Sun Microsystems. He has also been Director of Marketing and
then Director of Asia/Pacific Operations for nCUBE, a manufacturer of
video-on-demand servers; and a board member of Alier, Inc., a data
integration software company that is now part of webMethods.

Shomit was accepted to the University of California, Berkeley, at age
15. He graduated in 1982 with a degree in Computer Science.

At ONSET Ventures, Shomit coaches, mentors and provides management
resources to portfolio companies to maximize their success. He focuses
on software, networking and infrastructure companies.

Corporate Sponsors Acknowledgement:

Brobeck, Phleger and Harrison, LLP

ONSET Ventures

Intel

Sybase