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Saturday, March 17, 2001, 2:15 pm 

How To Start a Business Without Venture Funding
Speaker: Greg Eoyang, President, WestLake Consulting Group

So, you think you want to be an entrepreneur, but you are not crazy about the idea of venture funding? How do you get from the idea stage to running a successful business? While there is no strict formula, there are important issues you will have to address along the way: 

• Are you ready to be brutally honest? 
• Why do you want to create your own business? 
• What is your end game? 
• How do you hire when you don't really have any funding? 
• When do you need to bring in the experts? And the attorneys, the accountants, and so forth? 
• What is the most important key to success?

Speaker: Greg Eoyang has built his career on the cutting edge of the Internet revolution since its inception, and he has turned vision and entrepreneurial skill into the fourth fastest-growing Internet company in the Washington, DC, area (Washington Technology). He founded WestLake Solutions in December of 1994 to provide Internet training and consulting. To accommodate the company's rapid growth, two new companies were formed in 1999. WestLake Internet Training helps thousands of Washington, DC, area professionals develop their IT skills, and The WestLake Consulting Group provides sound business solutions to both corporate and government clients using cutting-edge Internet technologies. The combined gross revenue of the WestLake companies exceeded $10 million in the year 2000.

Before founding WestLake Solutions, Mr. Eoyang worked as an analyst at DARPA, the government agency that invented the Internet. While studying at Carnegie Mellon University, he helped develop and taught its first university-wide computer course for freshmen and earned his Bachelor of Science in Computer Science.

Agenda
2:15 pm    Welcome
2:20 pm    Accounting Tips/Tax Updates, Jina Etienne, CPA
2:30 pm    How To Start a Business Without Venture Funding; Greg Eoyang
3:55 pm    Q&A
4:10 pm    Closing announcements
4:15 pm    Informal queries, conversation, networking

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