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TechnoCap

TechnoBrainGain

Susan ReadVice-President, TechnoBrainGain

SRead@TechnoCap.com

World-Class Institutions

World-Class Startups

National Bank of Canada

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TechnoBrainGain Susan Read - Background

Positron / Positron Fiber – Director Human Resources – Hired 100 employees per year

– Established technology culture with 1% turnover of technology professionals

Readplan – Recruiting & Training Independent Consultant– Telecommunications, electronics & software clients

– Organizational development, salary plans & strategic planning

– Trained over 3000 managers and trainers in leadership, total quality management

M. Ed. (Adult Education), B.A. Industrial Relations & Economics

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TechnoCap Sectors

WAN – Wide Area NetworksLAN – LocalSAN – Storage BLAN – Broad LocalCAN – Clustered Servers WiAN – WirelessChAN – Chip Area Networks

EAN – Enterprise Area NetworksSCAN – Supply Chain DAN – Data Area Networks

NAN – Net CommunicationsAAN – Application Area Networks

Enterprise Software

Hyperchip

YottaYottaBigBangwidth

FreeBalancewebplanBiblioMondo

Enterprise Services

Networking Hardware

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TechnoBrainGainIf you are a person who makes the technology business happen,

with unlimited talent & happy, tireless, formidable work @ webspeed

 

we want you ! 

TechnoCap is a leading venture capital company building world class massively scalable technology companies

in an open, collaborative, webspeed environment. 

Software Gods and Gurus Startup Board Director (TechnoGrayHair)

President (eCEO)VP R&D (Product Development & Program Management)

Optical and MEMS Engineers System Architects 

ASIC DesignersIP Developers

 VP Marketing   VP Finance

VP SalesPatent Writer

Product ManagerCorporate Counsel

Recruiter – TechnicalMarcom – Digital Specialist

Webmaster – Viral Marketing 

e your Resume toeResume@TechnoCap.com 

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TechnoBrainGain Network

• TechnoCap’s team– Over 50 trade shows and conferences in North America & Europe per year.

• TechnoResources– Auditors, lawyers, analysts and marketing, finance and R&D consultants.

• TechnoAffiliates’ Network– Over 500 years of contacts in web software, enterprise software, networking, telecom and

semiconductors.

• TechnoCap Angel, VC, Financial & Corporate Co-investors– Boston, San Francisco, Seattle, New York, Philadelphia, London– Montreal, Ottawa, Quebec City, Toronto

• Recruiters – Over 10 top tier technology recruiters– Montreal, Toronto, Ottawa– Seattle, Boston, San Francisco

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TechnoCap People & Teams Model

Gestion TechnoCap Inc.

Round Life Cycle Stage Culture Doing / Thinking

Seed Newborn R&D Innovators 90 / 10

A Infant Revenue Jr Entrepreneurs 75 / 25

B Primary School Alliances Sr Entrepreneurs 50 / 50

C High School Profitable Professionals 25 / 75

IPO University Public Executives 10 / 90

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TechnoCap Four Cylinder Engine Model

Gestion TechnoCap Inc.

R&DFinance

MarketingSales

0

25

50

75

100

R&D Finance Marketing Ventes

• Each cylinder is rated at 0%, 10%, 25%, 50%, 75%, 90% or 100%

• Four cylinder engine has 400 hp (400%) potential (standard)

• Potential (size of market & potential market share):

1 = standard potential (4 cylinders) 400 hp

2 = large potential (8 cylinders) 800 hp

3 = immense potential (12 cylinders) 1200 hp

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TechnoCap Learning Community

TechnoCulture– Open & Direct

Leverage everybody all the time

– Mistakes at webspeedMust do in a webyear (3 months) what others do in a calendar year, Next

– Collaborative learning community

Alpha, beta, v1.0

Professional Development– eMails daily: business intelligence– CDrom Back Door: Best Practices shared amongst TechnoAffiliates– Professional Days: Best Practices of R&D, Finance, Marketing, Legal & Recruiting– Leverage Events: San Francisco, Boston, Atlanta, New York, Los Angeles

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TechnoCap Network Effect TechnoCap CDrom

Leverage tool for the TechnoAffiliates:1. Potential investors

2. WallSt analysts coverage

3. Recruiting management

4. Training new and existing management

5. Influencers and advisory committee recruitment

6. Media for financing, recruitment and beta customers

3,000 TechnoCap CDrom distributed (>2,500 in US) Distributed one on one to investors & influencers

129 person events for TechnoCap’s team

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TechnoCap Investor Leverage Events

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Investors’ Choice Awards

Ten major awards in five cities won by four TechnoCap TechnoAffiliates:

• FreeBalance Canadian IT Financing Forum 2002 Toronto • FreeBalance Venture Fair 2002 Toronto• YottaYotta Network Outlook 2002 San Francisco

• Hyperchip Network Outlook 2001 San Francisco• YottaYotta Network Outlook 2001 San Francisco• YottaYotta Venture Fair 2001 Toronto• BiblioMondo Canadian IT Financing Forum 2001 Toronto

• YottaYotta Venture Entrepreneur’s Summit 2000 Boston• YottaYotta Banff Venture Forum 2000 Banff• BiblioMondo Alliance Financing Forum 2000 Montreal

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Other Awards

FreeBalance Top Ten Companies to Watch in 2001

webplan Upside Hot 100 private companies to watch in 2001

webplan Start Magazine’s Hottest Companies in 2001

YottaYotta Best Investment Opportunity at VentureFair 2001YottaYotta Wayne Karpoff named Edmonton Ambassador 2001

Hyperchip CataAlliance’s Emerging Technology of 2001

Hyperchip Telecommunications’ Hot Start-ups of 2001

Hyperchip First Canadian company to break $100M in venture financing

webplan Canada’s 50 best managed private companies in 2000

webplan Branham’s 200 Leading Software and Services Companies

TechnoCap Four of Canada’s Top 50 VC Deals in 2000

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Recrutement Media covering TechnoAffiliates

US

Canada

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TechnoBrainGain Value Add

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TechnoAffiliate

CD – Recruiting tool

Trade Shows & Conferences & Web recruiting

Database of over 1500 Candidates

Leverage Events

CD – Job Checklists

Recruiter sourcing & coaching

Candidates

Recruiting

CD - Best Practices

Coaching, Round Tables & Sounding Board

Culture

Management Training

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Example of Value Addtelweb

• Hired and coached recruiter of VP R&D

• Hired VP R&D

• Hired Marcom

Recruiting

• SuperComm 99

• Telecom Geneva 99

• Schlumberger bought telweb four months after team recruited

Leverage Events

• Member of the Board

• Stock plans

• Employment Contracts

• People & Teams issues

• Culture

Management Training

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Example of Value Add VIPswitch

Recruiting

• Hired President

• Hired VP Finance

• Hired VP R&D

• Hired VP Marketing

• Hired Internal Recruiter

Leverage Events

• Initiate discussions with

customers, alliance partners &

candidates at :

•Network Outlook

•Telecom Geneva

•MultiMediaCom

•NAB

•Supercomm

Management Training

• Member of Board

• Recruiting Training

• Stock plans

• Employment Offers/Contracts

• People & Teams issues

• Culture

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TechnoBrainGainPedigree of Hires – Networking Hardware

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TechnoBrainGainPedigree of Hires – Enterprise Software & Services

Services

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Technology Alliances - University of TechnoCap’s investee companies

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Technology Alliances – Corporateof TechnoCap’s investee companies

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Results

• 700+ new hires (from 349 to 1064)

• 2000 candidates in database

• 400 participants at 5 BrainGain recruiting events

• 50 recruiting media articles

• 16 internal recruiters (1 in 1999)

• 19 Best Practices sessions

Employee stock purchase and/or option plans in all TechnoAffiliates

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TechnoCap

TechnoBrainGain

Susan ReadVice-President, TechnoBrainGain

SRead@TechnoCap.com