April
9, 2002, Zanzibar, New York
Straight-Talk (ST) Topic: 5 things
you should expect from your VC besides money.
Speaker: Mr. Stephen Ciesinski, Managing
Partner, Earlybird-VC from Silicon Valley, California.
More than 135 CEO's, entrepreneurs, and investors
registered for this event. They all gathered at Zanzibar to
listen to an honest presentation by Mr. Ciesinski and network.
Five companies selected through our Business Defense Program
were introduced to Mr. Ciesinski and they pitched their biz
plans for possible funding. Zevila.com, a software company
of New York, was the lucky winner for the "Your Pitch" program.
Harry Sticker, CEO of Zevila introduced his company/product/services
to more than 135 CEO's and senior management members in attendance.
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March
5, 2002, Zanzibar, New York
Straight-Talk (ST) Topic:10 things
I wish my lawyer had told me about starting a tech company
!
Speaker: Mr. John Delaney, Partner, Morrison
& Foerster LLP
More than 148 CEO's, entrepreneurs, and investors
registered for this event. They all gathered at Zanzibar to
listen to an honest, truthful educational presentation by
Mr. Delaney and network. More than 20 executives/entrepreneurs
received advice or had their question answered during the
one-hour limited program "Legal advice from John." matrixM,
a mobile messaging company of New York, was the lucky winner
for the "Your Pitch" program. Amit Joshi, CEO of matrixM introduced
his company/product/services to more than 140 CEO's and senior
management members in attendance.
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January
15, 2002, Zanzibar, New York
Straight-Talk (ST) Topic: THE NUTS
AND BOLTS OF VENTURE TERMS: Insights into the legal structure
and terms that venture capitalists require for their investments.
Speaker: Mr. Babak(Bo) Yaghmaie, Partner,
Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati.
More than 135 CEO's, entrepreneurs, and investors
registered for this event. They all gathered at Zanzibar to
listen and get an insight into the complex term sheet process
presented by Mr. Yaghmaie and network. More than 25 executives/entrepreneurs
received advice or had their question answered during the
one-hour limited program "Legal advice from Bo." McGuireWoods,
a New York city law firm was the lucky winner for the "Your
Pitch" program. Yvenne M. King, Attorney at Law of McGuireWoods
introduced her company and services to more than 140 CEO's
and senior management members in attendance.
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December
11, 2001, Zanzibar, New York
Straight-Talk (ST) Topic: TRUE CONFESSIONS
OF AN ANGEL INVESTOR
Speaker: Mr. Michael Tannen, Managing Partner,
Tannen Media Investment Fund LLC.
More than 175 CEO's, entrepreneurs, and investors
registered for this event. The honest and straight forward
presentation by Mr. Tannen was a surprise to most attendees.
More than 20 executives/entrepreneurs received advice or had
their question answered during the one-hour limited program
"Advice from Mike." Wireless Evangelist, a New York city wireless
company was the lucky winner for the "Your Pitch" program.
Seth Daniels, Chief Evangelist of Wireless Evangelist introduced
his company and services to more than 170 CEO's and senior
management members in attendance.
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November
5, 2001, Zanzibar, New York
Straight-Talk (ST) Topic: How to Raise
Capital from Multiple VCs in the Current Market Conditions
Speaker: Mr. Steve Brotman, Managing Director
and Founder of Silicon Alley Venture Partners
More than 200 CEO's, entrepreneurs, and investors
registered for this event. Mr. Brotman made a superb presentation
relating his own story of building his first company and the
current market condition. More than 40 executives/entrepreneurs
received advice or had their question answered during the
one-hour limited program "Informal Chat with Steve". Advance
Online, a Cape Town, South Africa, Internet Media Management
company was the lucky winner for the "Your Pitch" program.
John De Bruyn, Managing Director, of Advanced Online introduced
his company and and services to more than 200 CEO's and senior
management members in attendance.
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October
9, 2001, Zanzibar, New York
Straight-Talk (ST) Topic: They got
$30M and I can't even talk to the VCs ! Learn the inside scoop
on what it takes to get the big money. Hear the truth and
the only truth
Speaker: Mr. Jerry Colonna, Co-founder and
Managing Partner of Flatiron Partners.
More than 310 CEO's, entrepreneurs, and investors
gathered at Zanzibar to listen to Mr. Colonna. More than 40
executives received advice or had their question answered
during the one-hour limited program "Biz-Chat with Jerry."
A new program entitled "Your Pitch" was introduced to give
the unique opportunity to a local company to make a FREE presentation
to this highly influential audience about their business.
BenefitEvents.com was the lucky winner chosen by a lottery
drawing and they made a superb presentation. A moment of silence
was observed for the people who were lost in the September
11 WTC tragedy.
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September
12, 2001
This event was cancelled due to the WTC tragedy of September
11.
August 14,
2001, Zanzibar, New York
Straight-Talk (ST) Topic: How to build management
teams and boards the right way in early-stage ventures.
Speaker: Mr. Lawrence E. Phillips, Managing Director at
PRIMEDIA Ventures
More than 270 CEO's, entrepreneurs, and investors gathered
at Zanzibar to listen to Mr. Phillips. A new one-hour program
("Biz-Chat") was introduced to give an opportunity to entrepreneurs
meet in with Mr. Phillips in person and have their questions
answered. This program was very well received and more than
25 executives took advice or had their questions answered
in the one-hour limited program "Biz-Chat with Larry".
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July 10,
2001, The Gaslight, New York
Straight-Talk (ST) Topic:: What and how entrepreneurs
should do things differently to raise funds or approach investors
to succeed in the current market condition.
Speaker: Mr. Jason Chervokas, Venture Partner at PRIMEDIA
Ventures
More than 250 CEO's, entrepreneurs, and investors gathered
at The Gaslight to listen to Mr. Chervokas. The newly introduced
"Who Is Coming List" concept in our Bulls Eye Networking program
was much appreciated by the participants. This enabled registered
participants to identify who they wanted to meet before coming
to the event.
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June 12,
2001, Carnegie Hill Brewing, New York
Title: SAEC FREE "Networking Big-Event"
More than 300 CEO's, entrepreneurs, and investors networked
and had fun. A newly introduced numbering scheme as part of
the Bulls Eye Networking was introduced to enable participant
recognize each other easily.
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May
8, 2001, Carnegie Hill Brewing, New York
Straight-Talk (ST) Topic: SAEC Vision
for Nurturing Entrepreneurs and Developing a Community.
Speaker/Host: Dr. Gyan Parida, Founder/President,
Silicon Alley Entrepreneurs Club (SAEC)
Dr. Parida laid out his vision for providing
FREE help to entrepreneurs of early stage start-up through
community participation. More than 320 CEO's, entrepreneurs,
and investors gathered and were excited to listen to the ambitious
program laid out by Dr. Parida. The details of SAEC programs
Free Networking Event, VC-Meet, e-Meet, CXO-Meet,
CEO-Meet, National and Global Venture Forum series,
Bulls Eye Networking (BEN), Straight-Talk (ST),
Entrepreneurs Advisory Program (EAP), Business Defense
Program (BDP), Business Builder Program (BBP), and the
Green Leaf program (GLP) all developed at Dr. Parida's
own Digital Research facility iZyn Digital was taken by surprise
to most of the audience.
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March
13, 2001, The Gamut, New York
Straight-Talk (ST) Topic:"Holland Still
Grew Tulips After the Tulip Mania."
Speaker: Mr. Tom Lipscomb, Director of the
Center for the Digital Future
Mr. Lipscomb presented an overview of New York's
Digital Future at Silicon Alley Entrepreneurs Club Entrepreneur's
Soiree. This event was jointly sponsored with The Elevator.
February
13, 2001, The Gamut, New York
Straight-Talk (ST) Topic:"What I Learned at the
Dot-Com Debacle"
Speaker: Mr. Pascal Helou, former CEO of globotron.com,
Mr.Corey Podolsky former vice president and head of product
development at Urban Box Office.
Both speakers described what could best be characterized
as the "War Stories from the Bleeding Edge." This event was
jointly sponsored with The Elevator.
January 16,
2001, The Gamut, New York
Straight-Talk (ST) Topic:: "Dot-Coms are Dead! What
a Great Time to Start a Dot-Com!"
Speaker: Mr. Andy Sernovitz, visiting scholar at the Wharton
School of Business and CEO of GasPedal Ventures.
He gave a rousing presentation that the opportunities for
Internet businesses have never been better. This event was
jointly sponsored with The Elevator.
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