Rachid Sefrioui spoke at Silicon Valley Bank's CONNECT for Innovation

Rachid Sefrioui spoke at Silicon Valley Bank's sponsored conference in connection with San Diego's CONNECT for Innovation. The audience was mainly entrepreneurs and CEOs of startups in the San Diego area.

Since 1985, CONNECT has assisted in the formation and development of more than 2,000 companies and is widely regarded as the world's most successful regional program linking investors and entrepreneurs with the resources they need for commercialization

Today San Diego is home to almost 6,000 technology companies employing almost 140,000 people. Technology companies represent six percent of the region's employers and they pay 90 percent more than the average salary – a full quarter of our region's wages

Rachid Sefrioui - keynote speaker at Silicon Valley Forum

Rachid Sefrioui was the keynote speaker at Silicon Valley Forum, an EMI Engineering forum on Innovation and Cross-border engineering collaboration.

De grandes entreprises américaines intervenant dans le secteur de la haute technologie (Texas Instruments, Agilent Technologies, Qualcomm) ainsi qu'une dizaine d'entreprises de high-tech de pointe de la "Silicon Valley" examinent, ce jeudi à Rabat, les moyens de renforcer leurs partenariats dans le domaine de la haute technologie avec des chercheurs marocains.

 

Cette rencontre organisée par l'Ecole Mohammedia des ingénieurs (EMI) et l'université Al Akhawayn vise à établir des contacts entre les "entreprises de la célèbre Silicon Valley de Californie avec les experts marocains pour faire connaissance et travailler ensemble", a affirmé le directeur général de l'EMI, Ramdane Khalid.

Les dix entreprises High Tech de la Silicon Valley sont "General Photonics", "OEwaves, Inc", "Nanonexus", "Rfmagic", "Asip", "Atrenta", "GCS", "Neopad", "Nevis, Networks Inc", "Sequoia Communications".

Cette conférence s'inscrit dans le cadre de l'accord de libre-échange mis en place entre le Maroc et les Etats-Unis, selon les organisateurs.

Rachid Sefrioui speaks at PwC MoneyTree

Rachid Sefrioui was invited to speak at the Quarterly MoneyTree breakfast held by PwC to communicate to the Venture Capital Community investment reporting for the quarter and year-to-date.

The audience is made of about 100 VCs, CEOs and entrepreneurs.

The MoneyTree Report is a quarterly study of venture capital investment activity in the United States. As a collaboration between PricewaterhouseCoopers and the National Venture Capital Association based upon data from Thomson Reuters, it is the only industry-endorsed research of its kind.

Rachid Sefrioui - Entrepreneurship is about Determination

Rachid Sefrioui was the Featured Speaker at the University of Southern California's Marshall School of Business. This MBA program ranks in the top 10 in the U.S. and has produced many of California's most successful entrepreneurs. This was an absolute joy and honor to have the chance to discuss my first startup as a teenager, and how it lead to many others, successes and failures.

My speech focused on the Journey of an Entrepreneur, how Determination is the only character trait to success.

Rachid Sefrioui @MIT Forum - Not all Innovation is Equal

With 7 startups from the Optical Components space funded by my firm, Finaventures, it was only natural that the MIT Enterprise Forum, the global voice of entrepreneurship, the platform for entrepreneurial networking, inspiration and education, asks the question: Is there a real adoption chance for all these funded Optical component startups? Are they likely to be bought by any of the reluctant Not-Invented-Here-syndrome'd major Telcos?

My public speaking keynote focused on the importance of having paradigm-shifting innovations. Not all innovation is equal!

Rachid Sefrioui, Venture Capitalist: Scaling a Software Startup past $20M

As a the featured speaker at this Software roundtable, Rachid Sefrioui brought in his experience as a veteran venture capitalist and as a Technology CEO. The theme was familiar to many of the software CEOs in the audience: How do you scale a software company past the intial $20 milllion in revenues?

The Telecom Privatization Race in the MENA region

Rachid Sefrioui was the MENA Speaker at the Euromoney Conference on Finance & Banking. My experience as a Financier & Technologist made my presentation on The Telecom Privatization Race in the MENA region very relevant to the audience of Telecom executives from Telefonica, Motorola, Portugal Telcom, Vodafone, France Telecom, MENA region Banks and Private Investor Holding Cos from that region.