Pre-Registration Information: Pre-Registration will close at 6:00 PM on Tuesday February 28th. The association policy requires that a Pre-Registration must be cancelled prior to 4:00 PM on Monday February 27, 2012. All Pre-Registration are considered as Guaranteed Pre-Registrations and all No-Shows will be billed. We can only accept Credit Cards on our Website.

AGENDA: 5:15 PM Networking; 6:15 PM Self-Introductions & Dinner; 7:00 PM Presentation of the Gold Coast Venture Forum; 7:25 PM Guest Speaker

GCVCA Tru-Life Entrepreneurial Experience Series was created to provide a forum for successful entrepreneurs to share their story of the creation and success of their entrepreneurial experience. This event promises to be inspirational for entrepreneurs and an excellent networking opportunity for angel investors, entrepreneurs and industry professionals.

Guest Speaker John Ferber Co-Founder Advertising.com A Tale of Spectacular Success

John is a true visionary and pioneer of the digital world. At the age of six, John touched his first computer. Mesmerized, his passion was ignited and what followed was an odyssey of exploration into this new world and a journey through self discovery. In the early 90s, his junior year in college, he launched his first business venture buying and reselling used computers and consulting his buyers on “Internet Set-up”. This initial entrepreneurial success was followed by a series of grander ventures that pioneered many of the evolutionary milestones of the web, from creating the first-ever online interactive game to co-founding and building Advertising.com, the world’s largest and most successful third-party online display advertising network, search engine optimization, and domain name management. In 2004, he and his brother Scott sold Advertising.com their innovative online marketing system to AOL for $495 million. John has been named Entrepreneur of the Year by Ernst & Young LLP. Currently John is the co-founder of Domain Holdings. As you will learn, this was only a beginning.

Concurrent with his successfully developing business track, he has also focused much energy on a philanthropic track.He has levered his online acumen to build a unique charity fundraising site – Microgiving.com.Life events further stimulated his enthusiastic yearning to help people in need.Last year, John’s big heart was evidenced when he was featured on an ABC-TV episode of the Secret Millionaire.

John will join us and share his rich history of serial entrepreneurship and philanthropy as well as what exciting business opportunities he is now pursuing.You will surely be transfixed and inspired as he unfolds his spectacular story.

Gold Coast Venture Forum

Two (2) Presenting Companies

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The Gold Coast Venture Forum is designed to facilitate the flow of information between entrepreneurs and investors and does NOT function as a securities broker-dealer, securities exchange or an investment advisor and it is not registered as such with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission. Companies making presentations to the Gold Coast Venture Forum have not been recommended by any federal or state securities commission, regulatory authority and government entity or by the Gold Venture Capital Association. The GCVCA makes no representation or warranties regarding the truth, accuracy or completeness of the information provided by the entrepreneurs. The GCVCA is a not-for-profit networking membership organization. The Gold Coast Venture Capital Association does not recommend nor make investments.

If your company would like to make a Gold Coast Venture Forum presentation at a GCVCA Monthly Dinner Meeting Click Here.

Guaranteed Pre-Registration No-Show/Cancellation Policy

You can make a Pre-Registration on our Website until 6:00 PM on the Tuesday February 28, 2012. All Pre-Registrations are considered as a Guaranteed Pre-Registrations. The association policy requires that a Pre-Registration must be cancelled prior to 4:00 PM on Monday, February 27, 2012 due to the fact that the Association must provide a guaranteed headcount to the meeting venue at that time. If the pre-registrant is a No-Show and has Pre-Registered using a Credit Card and the Association has not receive a cancellation prior to 4:00 PM on Monday February 27, 2012 the Credit Card payment will be forfeited. If the pre-registrant is a Member and has used the "Pay at the Door" option and is a No-Show and the Association has not receive a cancellation prior to 4:00 PM on Monday February 27, 2012 then the Member will be invoiced for the Pre-Registration and the Association would appreciate the payment of the fee indicated on the Guaranteed Pre-Registration Invoice so that the Association can cover its cost.

Benefits of GCVCA Membership

One of the benefits of GCVCA Membership is access to scanned Business Cards collected at each meeting. Join today and assure your ability to follow up on contacts made at each and every meeting. For those times when it is not possible to attend the regular Monthly Dinner Meeting, Members still enjoy the benefit of access to the scanned Business Cards. Click Here for Membership Application.