Summary
Walter R. Roth has over 10 years of experience founding and funding technology startups, with experience on both sides of the funding table as a venture backed CEO and as an entrepreneur in residence at a Silicon Valley venture capital fund. He has had various roles within executive management, board management, business development, sales, recruiting, product development and marketing and fund raising.
Key Milestones
- Closed $5M VC financing (02.03.00 & 08.15.00)
- Manged executive team and board for start-up during product launches, financing(s) and growth
- Re-started sales and generated first $1M for start-up
- Identified and closed large anchor tenant (United States Postal Service & State of Florida Turnpike)
- Established key strategic relationships
- Advised and helped prepare CEO’s for successful rounds of financing
- Formally trained in sales at Oracle
- Set up inside sales organizations
Corporate History
See my LinkedIn profile: http://www.linkedin.com/in/walterroth
Sweat Investing Expertise
- Setting up Sales processes for Start-ups
- Raising venture capital
- Team building
- Product marketing
- Selling enterprise software
- Selling new media
Interests
- Traveling Abroad
- Running
- Cycling
- Reading
- Surfing
- SweatInvesting
Education
- Oracle Sales Training (based on Sandlers Sales Systems)
- University of Wisconsin at Madison (B.S. Engineering)
- Punahou High School
Sweat Portfolio
- Silver Tail Systems
- Watercooler-Inc
- United Technologies (Acquired: Enforma Diagnostisc)
- …more to come…
Preferred Contact
- Comment on one of my posts on the SweatInvestor blog (SweatInvestor Profile Post: walter.roth)
- Follow up may be a comment, new post, email and/or 30-60 minute phone call to assess if there is a match for further SweatInvesting
Other Links
http://www.facebook.com/walter.roth
http://www.linkedin.com/in/walterroth
http://www.google.com/profiles/walter.roth
Note: This is a first draft. I will be tweaking the format of the SweatInvestor profile and then will start adding more of them. Please feel free to send in suggestions/feedback.
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