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| Tuesday May 26th |  |
Ellen Thompson - Serial Tech Entrepreneur, Co-Founder and CEO at eRetriever Alan R. Kraus - Senior Dir. of Investments, Ben FranklinTechnology Partners Kathleen M Shay - IT Advisement Committee, Ben Franklin |
The nuts, bolts and pragmatics of getting funding from Ben Franklin — one of the best, and lowest cost sources of funding for startups. |
| Thursday May 28th |  |
John Galvin - ClickEquations Inc, VP - R&D/Engineering John is a software Development executive with experience in the development of enterprise-level commercial software products and solutions from both a management and technology perspective. Recognized as particularly adept at building and motivating high-performance technical teams. Advocate for Agile project and software development methodologies. |
Agile development methods |
| Thursday June 4th |  |
David Capece -Sparxoo, Managing Partner David brings 11 years of diverse work experience in corporate finance, venture capital, strategy, branding and marketing. During his career, David has worked with leading organizations such as ESPN, CNN, Lifetime, AT&T, McDonald's, and Habitat for Humanity, as well as entrepreneurs and their startups. |
Lessons learned, tricks and traps, and other gems related to marketing experiences. Pragmatic, actionable advice for entrepreneurs doing it for the first time. |
| Tuesday June 9th |  |
Craig Danuloff - ClickEquations Inc, Founder & President Craig is a serial entrepreneur with experience running venture-backed startups. Strategic thinker with a history of seeing opportunities and trends early. General focus in ecommerce and online marketing. |
Search Engine Optimization |
| Tuesday June 16th |  |
Leonard M. Lodish - Wharton University Professor - Samuel R. Harrell Professor; Professor of Marketing, Vice Dean, Program for Social Impact; Leader and Co-founder, Global Consulting Practicum Leonard M. Lodish is the Samuel R. Harrell Professor in the Marketing Department of the Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania, where he has been since 1968. He received a Ph.D. (Marketing and Operations Research) from Massachusetts Institute of Technology's Sloan School of Management in 1968 and an A.B. (Mathematics) from Kenyon College in 1965. He has been at Wharton since 1968 where he was department chair from 1984-1988 and 1991-1992. He has also been a visiting Professor at the Harvard Business School. He is also Vice Dean for Wharton West, Wharton's San Francisco campus since 2001. He has published over 50 articles, is active as an editor in leading marketing and management science journals, and is the author of several books including "Entrepreneurial Marketing: Lessons from Wharton's Pioneering MBA Course". |
Successful startups and the pattern of success.
Entrepreneurial Marketing |
| Wednesday - mid-day June 17th |  |
Howard Linzdon -Partner in the Fund and a Principal Knight’s Bridge. Howard is the author of the Financial Blogs at howardlindzon.com. Mr. Lindzon (through his hedge fund) has made many successful minority angel investments including Rent.com (soldto Ebay in 2005), Lifelock and Internet Brands (NASDAQ). Author of The Wallstrip Edge: Using Trends to Make Money -- Find Them, Ride Them and Get Off." |
TBD |
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Danilo Diaz - Evangelist, Microsoft Danilo Diaz, aka Dani, is a Developer Evangelist for Microsoft's Mid-Atlantic State district. In this role, he helps developers understand Microsoft's product offerings and strategy. Prior to joining Microsoft, he worked at Perficient Philadelphia where he helped establish their Mobility Practice. Dani has over 8 years of experience in the IT industry. His ability to identify and utilize the right blend of technologies to solve business needs has been an asset on all projects he has worked on. Dani's first .NET project was a Web-based eLearning application which was built on ASP.NET 1.0 Beta 2. As a consultant he has served the roles of system architect, technical lead, developer and mentor on various large and small projects. He has worked on SOA-based applications, Web applications, Windows applications and mobile systems.. |
Technical presentations on using varying software architecture and scalability |
| Tuesday June 23th |  |
Gabriel Weinberg - President & Founder - DuckDuckGo Gabriel is a serial entrepreneur and hacker (the good kind). His current startup is DuckDuck Go, a new search engine. Before that he started The Names Database, a tool to find old friends and classmates that was acquired in 2006. He is a graduate of MIT. When hacking (computer stuff) I often use Perl, JavaScript,FreeBSD, PostgreSQL,DJB's stuff, and nginx. |
“Go Fast – Get Found – Spread it Around: 3 Killer Steps to Building a Successful Internet Venture.” |
| Monday June 29th |  |
DavidWhittemore - Product Manager - On Deck Capital David Whittemore is an entrepreneur and startup enthusiast. He is currently a Product Manager at a rapidly growing financial services startup, On Deck Capital. Previously he was the first employee and Product Manager at Monitor110, a financial services startup that closed its doors with many lessons learned in 2008. He also organizes events for Blue Venture Community, an entrepreneurship community for Columbia University alumni. While at Columbia, he co-founded Varsity Flicks, an online video and social networking website. |
Practical customer development advice based on startup failure and success |
| Tuesday June 30th |  |
Brad Feld - Managing Director, The Foundry Group Brad has been an early stage investor and entrepreneur for over 20 years. Prior to co-founding Foundry Group, he co-founded Mobius Venture Capital and, prior to that, founded Intensity Ventures, a company that helped launch and operate software companies and later became a venture affiliate of the predecessor to Mobius Venture Capital. |
TBD |
| Tuesday July 7th |
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Bill Wasik - Senior Editor, Harper's Magazine Bill Wasik is a senior editor of Harper's Magazine and author of the new book And Then There's This: How Stories Live and Die in Viral Culture. Before he got into writing and editing, he was a technology analyst at Bessemer Venture Partners, a VC firm near Boston. |
TBD |
| Wednesday July 8th |
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Josh Kopelman - Managing Partner, First Round Capital Josh is currently Managing Director of First Round Capital, a seed stage technology venture fund. Josh has been an active leader in the Internet industry since its commercialization. |
Lessons learned from a VC. |
| Tuesday July 14th |  |
Dick Grove - Chairman/CEO, INK inc. PR Dick's background includes top posts for such companies as Burson-Marsteller, ITT and Intel, formed his own agency in 1997 with the idea that PR firms should be held to an accountable method of compensation and thus share in the financial risk of the client. |
Secrets revealed of how to get mainstream PR coverage from top news media outlets. |
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Thursday July 16th |
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Chris Fralic - Partner, First Round Capital Chris joined First Round Capital in 2006. Chris was most recently VP of Business Development at del.icio.us, which was acquired by Yahoo! in December 2005, focusing on distribution partnerships to integrate del.icio.us across a broad set of browsers, tools and publishing partners. |
Getting biz dev deals done when you are an early stage startup. Tricks & traps revealed. |
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Tuesday July 21th |
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Mark Hughes - Buzz Marketing Mark grew eBay’s Half.com from zero to 8 million customers as its VP of Marketing and PR in less than 3 years. He did that by out-thinking versus out-spending. |
Creating a Marketing Buzz. Find out how to use the 4i's to improve and grow your business. |
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Wednesday July 22nd |
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Jim Young - Former Founder/CTO/CEO at HOTorNOT.com Co-Founded in 2000, HOT or NOT® is the original place to rate, date and hook up with single people 18-34. With millions rated using HOT or NOT's proprietary "RATE" feature, HOT or NOT is the official home of hotness. HOT or NOT was acquired in 2005 for approximately $20 million. |
How to build, create and sell a company with with no VC funds. |
| Tuesday July 28th |  |
Gil Beyda - Managing Partner, Genacast Ventures Managing Partner at Genacast Ventures. Gil Beyda is a seasoned entrepreneur turned venture capitalist. Gil launched his first company Mind Games in 1982 to develop games for the original Apple II. Gil then started a software consulting firm with Fortune 100 clients in the U.S., Asia and Europe. In 1995, Gil helped pioneer Internet advertising by founding Real Media, the first online ad network and ad server company. After Real Media was acquired in 2001, Gil pioneered the next wave of online advertising as CTO of TACODA, the first behavioral targeting, ad network. Following AOL’s acquisition of TACODA in 2007, Gil founded Genacast Ventures in partnership with Comcast Interactive Capital to invest in seed-stage, technology-centric, Internet start-ups. |
Everything you wanted to ask a VC but thought they'd never answer. |
| Thursday July 30th - Noon |
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Steve Barsh - DreamIt Ventures Partner and Serial Entrepreneur Steve is an accomplished CEO, entrepreneur, and senior executive whose expertise is leading world-class teams and companies to deliver superior results. With over 20 years of experience, Steve has the ability to both determine a winning strategic direction and drive its execution. | Secrets revealed along with tricks and traps of pitching VCs. |
| Thursday July 30th |
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Howard Greenstein - Howard Greenstein is a Social Media Strategist and Evangelist, and President of the Harbrooke Group. He has been involved in cutting edge technology applications including online communities and streaming media for over fifteen years. |
Leveraging Social Media. |
| Tuesday August 4th |  |
Lucinda Holt - CEO, ClickEquations Lucinda is an accomplished technology CEO who led a number of successful companies. In 2004, Lucinda co-founded and led TurnTide, an anti-spam technology company, which was acquired by Symantec for $28 million in only six months. Prior to founding TurnTide, Lucinda was President & CEO of Destiny WebSolutions. |
5 Lessons from a Battle Scarred Entrepreneur |
| Tuesday August 11th |  |
Colin Evans -Founder & Managing Partner,Sandwith Ventures LLC Previous to launching Sandwith, Colin was a Co-Founder and Vice President of Sales and Business Development at StubHub.com, a successful online ticket exchange founded in 2000 and sold to eBay in early 2007 |
TBD |
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Doug Alexander - Managing Director, Operations, Internet Capital Group Doug is an original member of ICG's advisory board, Doug joined the company full-time in September 1997 as Managing Director, and was appointed President of ICG in January, 2009. Doug has had many roles at ICG including CEO of WiseWire Technologies, which was successfully sold to Lycos; Chairman of Verticalnet through its IPO; CEO of ICG Europe; and CEO of Traffic.com, which was later successfully sold to Navteq. | TBD |
