Title:
GARAGE.COM ... We start startups...
Bill Reichert
President & CFO, GARAGE.COM
Palo Alto, CA
Abstract:
Garage.com is dedicated to helping entrepreneurs and investors build
great high-technology companies. Garage.com aims to expand the marketplace
for financing startups and make it more efficient. The professional staff
at garage.com identifies the most promising entrepreneurs and startup
companies and puts them together with experienced high-technology investors,
including angel investors, venture capitalists and corporate investors.
A key source of leverage in garage.com's model is its website. The
public areas of the garage.com website provide general information and
advice to investors and entrepreneurs interested in high technology. The
private areas of the website include listings of selected company private
placements and provide investors and entrepreneurs with a secure, efficient
mechanism for getting together. Entrepreneurs get access to resources and
advice that will accelerate their success, and investors get access to an
outstanding selection of high-quality, pre-screened investment opportunities.
President and CFO Bill Reichert is the co-founder of several startup
companies, most recently Academic Systems Corporation. He was part of the
turnaround team that made The Learning Company a market leader in home
education. He also worked at McKinsey & Company and Brown Brothers Harriman
& Co. Reichert holds a B.A. from Harvard and an M.B.A. from Stanford.