Vinnie is entrepreneur turned venture capitalist. He is a founding partner of Golden Gate Ventures, an early-stage VC firm in Southeast Asia with over 20 investments to date.  He was part of the founding team of Meetro, a notable start-up that built a location-based services (LBS) social messenger built out of a garage in Palo Alto. Lauria co-founded Lefora.com and served as VP of Product until the company’s acquisition by CrowdGather. He was a contributing author to the book “Web 2.0 Fundamentals: With AJAX, Development Tools, and Mobile Platforms”. He will be speaking from a successful VC’s perspective on the growth of Southeast Asia eCommerce and his criteria for investment.