Tuesday, August 31, 2010 from 6:15 PM – 8:30 PM (ET)

Kramer Levin Naftalis & Frankel LLP
1177 Avenue of the Americas
New York, NY 10036

At this event, we are very privileged to have:

John F. Frankel, ff Asset Management:

http://ffassetmanagement.com/People.html

“John Frankel founded ff Asset Management LLC as an early stage venture fund because he saw a market that was not being served well by established venture funds.  There is a VC funding gap, that not only starves early stage companies of capital, but also of advice and expertise, impacting companies ability to grow and attract talent.  John Frankel has been an early-stage venture investor for the past eight years, with a broad portfolio of investments.  He has worked closely with entrepreneurs in a variety of fields and has experience advising start-ups.

Mr. Frankel started his business career with Arthur Anderson & Co. in the audit and insolvency divisions.  He spent the following twenty one years at Goldman, Sachs & Co. in a variety of roles that involved technology development, reengineering, and capital markets.  His primary focus is helping early stage companies deploy lightweight disruptive business models to become the low cost player in their respective market.

Mr. Frankel was an early stage investor and director of Quigo Technologies, Inc. which was purchased by AOL in December 2007, and is currently a director of Alerts.com and of  Patents.com, and a member of the board of advisors of Phone.com.

Mr. Frankel earned a Master of Arts from New College, Oxford where he studied Mathematics, Philosophy and Logic, and is a Fellow Chartered Accountant of the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales.”

Format: Introductions – Q&A – 5-minute pitches from 5 startups and 5-minute feedbacks from our speaker and the community.

To pitch apply here:

http://is.gd/dMFs7

To hear about future events, please sign up at http://eroundtable.net

Thanks to our venue sponsor: Kramer Levin

Organizer: Murat Aktihanoglu (@muratny)

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Hudson Terrace, 621 West 46th Street, New York, NY 10036

Monday, July 26, 2010 from 6:00 PM – 10:00 PM (ET)

Brought to you by Entrepreneurs Roundtable, Startup One Stop and more:

Learn how to start a venture the right way from experienced serial entrepreneurs. And find a co-founder!

Drink specials from 6PM-7PM.

Schedule:

6:30PM – 6:45PM – Leveraging PR to build momentum and value at early-stage startups

Bonin Bough – Global Director of Digital and Social Media, PepsiCo

6:45PM – 7:30PM – What is the best way to get started and find a co-founder?

Q&A; and presentations on detailed step-by-step instructions on how to get started and how to find a co-founder.

Speakers:

David S. Rose - New York Angels

Peter Shankman - Help a Reporter Out

7:30PM – 8:00PM – Find a co-founder open-pitch

30 second pitches to find co-founders.

8:00PM – … Networking and special “Movie Under The Stars” presentation upstairs

Wednesday, July 21st, 2010 from 6:15 PM – 8:30 PM (ET)

AXA Financial Center, 1290 Ave. of the Americas, 15th Floor, Big Apple Room, New York, NY 10104

At this event, we are very privileged to have:

Will Porteous, General Partner, RRE Ventures:

http://www.rre.com/team/will-d-porteous

“Mr. Porteous is a General Partner with RRE Ventures. Before joining the venture capital industry, Mr. Porteous held senior management positions in marketing and product management with SupplyWorks and NetMarket, the e-commerce pioneer now owned by Cendant Corp. Mr. Porteous is a Director of BuzzFeed, Data Robotics,Electric Cloud, Hot Potato, Liquid Machines, Peek, Skyhook Wireless and Xobni and a former Director of Frictionless Commerce (acquired by SAP) and Tacit Networks (acquired by PKTR). He also serves as an Adjunct Associate Professor at Columbia Business School and as Chairman of the Dockery Farms Foundation which he founded.

Mr. Porteous holds an MBA from Harvard University, an MSc from the London School of Economics and Political Science, and a BA with Honors from Stanford University where he served as Captain of the Varsity Crew.”

Format: Introductions – Q&A – 5-minute pitches from 5 startups and 5-minute feedbacks from our speaker and the community

Pitching companies:

Shekhar Pradhan mixpool.com

Dean Collins  livechatconcepts.com

Shefali  Kumar emotitone.com

Joe Williams revolutiontrades.com

Joe Filippazzo  knotebooks.com

Thanks to our venue sponsor: Vital Planning Group

Organizer: Murat Aktihanoglu (@muratny)

Big thanks to Kivanc Anar!
Panel discussion with Howard Morgan, Stephen Messer and Jeff Stewart:

30-second pitches:

Thursday, June 17, 2010 from 6:15 PM – 8:30 PM (ET)

At this event, we are very privileged to have:

Chip Hazard, General Partner, Flybridge Capital Partners:

http://www.flybridge.com/team/Chip-Hazard

“Chip is a General Partner at Flybridge Capital Partners whose investment interests and experience broadly cover companies and technologies in the information technology sector.
He currently represents the firm on the boards of 1-800-FREE411 (Jingle Networks), 10gen, First Best Systems, Goby,Infobright, Placemark, Reveal Imaging, and Sciformix and was previously a director at Bowstreet (acquired by IBM), mValent (acquired by Oracle) and SupplyScape (acquired by TraceLink).

Before joining the firm in May 2002, Chip was a General Partner with Greylock Partners, a leading venture capital firm he joined in 1994. While at Greylock, Chip led or participated in numerous successful investments in the enterprise information technology field including Narrative Communications (acquired by @Home), Idiom Technologies (acquired by SDL),  iPhrase Technologies (acquired by IBM), IBA (acquired by ServiceSoft/Kana), Storage Networks (IPO), Totality (acquired by MCI) and the Vincam Group (IPO in 1996, acquired by ADP). Prior to Greylock, he was with Company Assistance Limited, an investment and consulting firm in Warsaw Poland; and Bain and Company, an international management consulting firm.

Chip’s blog, Hazard Lights, can be found at www.hazardlights.net.”

Format: Introductions – Q&A – 5-minute pitches from 5 startups and 5-minute feedbacks from our speaker and the community

Please apply here to pitch: http://is.gd/cqkxV (Only 5 companies will be selected to pitch)

Murat Aktihanoglu (@muratny) is the organizer of the event.