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.