About

BAE Workshop is dedicated to improving the odds for entrepreneurs seeking funding for their venture through a unique approach to entrepreneurial training. We offer a series of eight weekly sessions with locations in the East Bay, on-line,  and the Peninsula. BAE Workshop is led by experienced professionals with a history of leading start-ups and working with start-ups. The Workshop has been created to meet a need that is unmet by the existing entrepreneurial training programs in the Bay Area.

BAE Workshop Sessions held in the East Bay and on-line are on Wednesdays and those on the Peninsula are on Thursdays. The next series begins September, 2010. Each Session begins at 9:00 AM and ends at 12:00 Noon, Pacific Time.

Team

Ralph Patterson, CEO

Ralph specializes in strategic consulting, helping companies develop the necessary strategies to obtain funding, to grow their market, to enter new markets and to acquire new technologies. His firm, Strategia, Inc. has consulted for venture capitalists, M&A organizations, Fortune 500 companies, small companies and start-ups. It currently focuses on start-ups. He also volunteers as the chair of eBig’s Start-ups and VCs SIG.

One of his clients was Technology Ventures Corporation* (TVC). At TVC, Ralph sat through about 300 investor pitches and evaluated over 1,000 executive summaries. He counseled entrepreneurs to prepare them for seeking venture funding and matched them to appropriate investors.

Prior to forming Strategia, Ralph had senior management positions with Hewlett-Packard, KLA-Tencor, and was the founding CEO of Headway Technologies.

*TVC is a Government-sponsored program to aid the commercialization of technology from the national labs and entrepreneurs in the communities of the labs. In its 15 years of operations, TVC has helped entrepreneurs raise over $1B of capital that has created over 12,000 jobs.