NECINA Venture Club/Excubator Conference (May 3rd) Move Dream Forward? - You can do it, too!
Funding Trends from East to West - Venture Capital Opportunities in Tianjin, China and Boston, MA
- Time: 9:00am to 2:00pm, Sunday, May 3, 2009
- Venue and Event Sponsor: Foley Hoag LLP, 1000 Winter St, North Entrance, Suite 4000, Waltham, MA
- Free to NECINA members and general public (Breakfast and lunch included)
- To register, please go to http://tianjinventurecapitalassociation.eventbrite.com/
Are
you considering start a business but hesitating to take the plunge? How
to move your dream forward after you have a business plan? Is it
possible to raise money in the downturn economy? How to bootstrap a
business in difficult times? Please come and join us to listen to
entrepreneurs who have done it before. You can do it, too!
NECINA
Venture Club and Excubator at the Entrepreneurship Center are proud to
present Jimmy Chen, founder and chairman of GotoBus.com (NECINA
sponsor) and Coach Wei, founder and chairman of Nexaweb to share their
views and experiences.
Also welcome Tianjin Venture Capital Association invited by our
event sponsor Foley Hoag. Please join us for a unique opportunity to
meet our special guests from Tianjin, China, learn how to raise money
and prevail in a slow economy and discuss venture opportunities in
China.
Following the event, please sign up your team with Venture Club and
Excubator for future event and services, and network one-on-one with
guest venture capitalists and Excubator service providers. Agenda - 9:00 - 9:30am Registration & Networking
Light refreshments will be served. - 9:30 - 9:50am Open Remarks by NECINA Organizer & Sponsor
- 9:50 - 10:20am Keynote: "Raise Money in Difficult Times",
Coach Wei, Founder & Chairman, Nexaweb - 10:20 - 10:50am Keynote: "Bootstrap to Prevail",
Jimmy Chen, Founder, Chairman & CEO, GotoBus.com - 10:50 - 11:00am Break
- 11:00 - 11:30am Keynote: "Venture Opportunities in Tianjin",
Tianjin Venture Capital Association - 11:30am - 12:00pm Q & A
- 12:00 - 1:00pm Lunch & Networking
- 1:00 - 2:00pm One-on-one Meetings with Venture Capitalists
About the Speakers
Jimmy Chen, CEO and Chairman, GotoBus.com
Jimmy
(Xiangping) Chen founded IvyMedia Corporation aka GotoBus.com in the
Summer of 2000 with the mission of providing affordable and easy-to-use
solutions for e-commerce and content management. Since then GotoBus.com
has become the leading online bus ticketing service provider and was
named Best of the Web by Washington Post in February 2007. Before
founding IvyMedia Corporation/GotoBus.com, Jimmy held various software
development and management positions at PTC and SolidWorks. He is also
active in computer science research and his publications (eg. CAD Vol
27.9, ISBN:0-89791-672-7, CAD Vol 27.12 and CAD Vol 28.1) were well
received in the Computer Aided Design research community. Jimmy has a
Ph.D. from Computer Science at Purdue University; a Master's and a
Bachelor's from Zhejiang University.
Coach Wei, CEO, Yottaa Inc. and Chairman, Nexaweb Technologies, Inc.
Coach
is CEO of Yottaa Inc. He is also Chairman of Nexaweb technologies, an
Enterprise Web 2.0 software company he founded in 2000. He served a
variety of roles at Nexaweb including CEO, VP Engineering, CTO and
marketing from 2000 to 2008. Before Nexaweb, Coach designed software
for managing storage networks at EMC Corporation. He is a frequent
speaker at industry events and has many publications on various
technical journals. Coach obtained his master's degree from MIT, holds
six patents and maintains a blog on startups, web 2.0 technologies and
entrepreneurship at http://www.coachwei.com.
About NECINA Venture Club
NECINA Venture Club is an
exclusive entrepreneurial community for members to share experience,
network and best practice across global economy. NECINA Venture Club
organizes advanced workshops and discussion forums specific to
challenging issues faced by the executives. Club membership is limited
to advisors, corporate executives, established entrepreneurs with
mature business operation and selective early stage entrepreneurs with
concrete business plan. The Venture Club is the premier networking club
in New England focusing on entrepreneurship and bridging the gap
between business in the US and Asia.
About NECINA Exubator Program
NECINA Excubator Program is
a service oriented pilot program as an extension to global venture
incubators helping business teams in the bootstrapping stage from
business plan inception to successful seed funding. As a platform
aligning NECINA resources in areas such as engineering, marketing,
sales, legal, finance, venture capital, human resource, it provides
continuous services to NECINA business teams and all stage
entrepreneurs.
For more information, visit http://www.necina.org.
Partner Events
Seminar: The Inception: Starting Your Company
Foley
& Lardner LLP and BNY Mellon Wealth Management invite you to join
us for an informal, interactive panel focused on "The Inception:
Starting Your Company." This is the first session in our four-part
series, The Life Cycle of the Entrepreneur in Today's Economy.
The panel will explore the following issues: - What does it really take to start a business?
- Is your idea timely? Is there a convergence of need, market, and time?
- How do you identify and incentivize both your internal and external teams?
- How do you find the early money to launch the business?
- What role does personal wealth play in starting a company?
Rob
Adler, President and Chief Executive Officer of WordStream, Inc., Chris
Sheehan, Managing Director of CommonAngels, and Edward J. Mooney,
Senior Director at BNY Mellon Wealth Management, will be joined by Paul
D. Broude , Vice-Chair of Foley's Emerging Technologies Industry Team,
in discussing these topics. -
When:Tuesday, April 28, 2009
12:00 p.m. to 12:30 p.m. - Registration and Networking
12:30 p.m. to 2:00 p.m. - Working Program Lunch
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Where Foley & Lardner LLP 111 Huntington Avenue 26th Floor Boston, Massachusetts 02199
- Attendance is complimentary, but advance registration is required. For additional information, please contact Wendy Decker at wdecker@... or 617.342.4081.
- Register here Today.
From Boston Entrepreneurs' Network (ENET):
"Investor Guidance on Business Plans and Presentations"
Hear
our ENET panel of 3 successful investors discuss how to put a business
plan together, tell you what works and doesn't work in today's
investment climate. -
Time: Tuesday, May 5, 2009, 7-10pm,
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Venue:Folely-Hoag Emerging enterprise Center, 1000 Winter St., Waltham,
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topic "Investor Guidance on Business Plans and Presentations".
- Cost: $20 for non-members. Visit www.boston-enet.org to register online or for more information.
- Please contact Rob Adelson (radelson@...) for any questions or comments.
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