Listen and learn as serial entrepreneur and venture capitalist Tom Huseby of SeaPoint Ventures reveals:

- Why and how business planning is of critical importance to building a successful business
- The essential elements of a business and its plan
- The common mistakes most entrepreneurs make in business planning.

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For the entrepreneur, creating and building a valuable and sustainable business is what it is all about.  A great product idea or technology is a great start, but not enough.  You also have to plan and then build a great business.  Effective business planning and execution will increase your options at each step along the way.

Speaker

Tom Huseby, Managing Partner, SeaPoint Ventures

In 1997 Tom formed SeaPoint Ventures.  Prior to forming SeaPoint Ventures, Tom co-founded and was the first CEO of Metawave Communications Corporation, a manufacturer of cellular infrastructure equipment. Before Metawave, he was the first president and CEO of Innova Corporation, a manufacturer of digital millimeter wave radios. Tom spent the first seventeen years of his career at Raychem Corporation where he held a variety of executive positions in Europe, South America and the <?xml:namespace prefix = st1 ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags" /?>
U.S. His last position at Raychem was Group Vice President of the Industrial Products Group.

Tom is currently Chairman of the Board of Entomo, Hubspan, Qpass, MobileLime, and SnapIn Software and a board member of Kineto Wireless.  Tom is ex-chairman and currently a board member for Airspan Networks, Wireless Services Corporation and Telecom Transport Management. 

Tom has a Bachelor's degree in Economics and a BSIE from Columbia University and an MBA from Stanford University.