Venture Café Foundation
James Kwon
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Erica Guatieri
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Daniel Gertrudes
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Ryan Juliano
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Matthew Leathers |
David Hirschman |
Sarajane McMahon |
Scott Asadorian |
Jonathan Muniz |
Jessica Kerrigan |
Rosa Power |
Roni Kabessa |
Heather O'Neill |
Tino Chow |
Jay Round |
Theodore Howell |
Jess Bachman |
Tuni Schartner |
Andreas Randow
You built something? It solves a problem. Great. You think you understand your market. Do you? Let's figure out together where you're at and what needs to be done to turn your product into a functioning company.
Andreas has expertise in SaaS, Software & Data Architecture, Mobile Applications, Startups, Big Data / Deep Learning / AI, Data Acquisition & Imaging, and Turnkey Business Development. Andreas works with East Horizon Investments.
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Carol Peters
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Bill Larrenaga
Bill is a Director with The CFO Center, the largest international provider of CFO resources, services, and solutions to the small and medium sized enterprise sector. Bill was previously a Partner of KPMG LLP, one of the Big Four CPA Firms. He has experience in high tech, manufacturing and retail and distribution industries.
Be sure to bring your business plan including your high level pitch document, the problems you are addressing, the size of market, your team, the product offering, etc.
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Chuck Goldstone
Startups often falter, not because their technologies aren't good, but because the stories they tell about them aren't. It's about content and intent: Finding your Core Story...the right message that says who you are. Making it clear/ engaging. Finding and articulating a compelling story. Creating strategies for any audience. Movings investors and markets to action. You'll chat with Chuck Goldstone, who for more than two decades has helped organizations find their voice.
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David Boundy
David Boundy is one of the world's leading 300 Intellectual Property strategists. David was invited by the nation's primary patent court to conduct a teaching seminar for the judges. David helps companies protect their intellectual assets, and realize value from them.
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Debbie Lin
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Ed Friedman
Investors Collaborative (iC) provides venture capital to select early stage companies in a wide range of industry sectors including software, IT, biotechnology, clean technology, healthcare, energy, communications, hardware, and professional services. They seek to help individuals developing innovative technologies build world class companies.
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Elliott Laffer
A proven problem solver with a history of getting people and organizations, both professional and volunteer, to operate at a higher level of accomplishment. As a regional sales manager, I built up my regions to become the top performers at both firms for which I had that role. On the volunteer side, I had a leadership role in three successful public review processes that were key to the success of three of the largest private developments in Boston history.
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Erik Riedel
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Eric Ashman
Prior to founding Bothered Mind Media, Eric was the President of Group Nine Media and the CFO of the Huffington Post. Eric has led multiple fund raise processes of various levels of complexity, bought and sold companies through a wide variety of M&A transactions, and has built highly scalable operations teams from the ground up. Eric regularly advises founders on their business plan, fundraising strategy, and the development of KPI’s to reach important milestones.
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George Mabry
George is an active consultant, mentor and angel investor in the Harvard, MIT, and Boston entrepreneurial communities. With degrees in computer science and business, George co-founded a biotech market research company, acquired by a global bio-pharmaceutical service provider in 2008. If you are seeking feedback on your business concept, come prepared with high-level materials to explain your idea, including information on the market, team, and how you are addressing the problem/opportunity.
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Jacquie Kay
As an entrepreneur and educator, Jacquie works globally and locally, advising businesses, leaders, and organizations in planning and managing innovation, ventures, start-ups and projects. She founded two for-profit companies, WPI, Inc. and The Sun Walking Group, and, was founder of the Asian Community Development Corporation, a non-profit corporation. WPI, Inc., for 35 years, under Jacquie’s guidance, was a successful international development firm.
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Jessica Manganello
New Leaf Legal, focuses on creatively developing Corporate, Entertainment, and IP infrastructures for their start-up clients as well as helping established companies embark on new and entrepreneurial paths. Stop by the Cafe to talk shop with Jess and Shannon!
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Jodi-Tatiana Charles
Jodi has enjoyed bringing people and companies together for over three decades. As a strategic marketing/branding specialist she has combined her passion for branding with her love of business development. After working on her Global MBA at Babson College and traveling to 14 countries within a year, and starting two businesses, she continues to be inspired to share her knowledge and expertise with clients worldwide.
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Kerry Bowie
Prior to cofounding Msaada Partners, Kerry acquired extensive experience as an environmental engineer and manager with Texas Instruments in Dallas and the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. Kerry holds bachelor’s and master’s degrees in environmental engineering from MIT and the University of Michigan, respectively, as well as an MBA from the MIT Sloan School of Management.
Kerry is able to assist entrepreneurs with Business Fundamentals, Financial Management/Reporting, and Strategic Planning.
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Kevin Wiant
Kevin is Executive Director of Venture Café Boston, a nonprofit Foundation that connects the innovation community by managing spaces, programs and conversations. Previously, Kevin has been on the management teams of several early stage companies in the mobile, telecommunications, web and software industries. His executive roles have been in business development, sales, marketing, product management and corporate development.
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Kevin Winter
A Ceramic Engineer with over 40 years of Manufacturing & Sales experience with large (e.g. GE, UTC, Teco-Westinghouse) and smaller companies.
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Le Zhang
Le is the founder and CEO of Squadle, an IoT platform company that helps automate multi-unit restaurant operations for the likes of Sonic Drive-In and Chick-fil-A. Squadle is backed by 500 Startups, Bolt VC, Accomplice, Walnut Ventures, and more. He is named in several patents in the IoT field.
Le has experience building technology companies from scratch, building scalable software technology platforms, fundraising, and in enterprise sales.
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Marcus Yee
Marcus recently left IBM after more than 20 years of services to join force with an IBM Watson business partner and a predictive software startup. He sees the future as one of predictive. Any startups or enterprises that process the predictive capabilities will have the competitive edge. He specializes in strategic and sales process consulting to shorten sales cycles to customers. In 2015, he was on a team that works with startups, entrepreneurs, enterprises, developers, incubators, and VCs.
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Marta Wolska-Brys
15+ years of experience as Packaging Developer and New Product Launches Enabler at #1 in beauty industry-L'Oreal France & USA. Core expertise: Open Innovation, Packaging Development, Supplier Partnerships, New Product Launches, Continuous Quality Improvement. Recently founded Packaging&Beyond, LLC consulting firm with an objective to help startup brands in packaging development and new product launches-project management. Industry focus: consumer packaged goods
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Marty SackSCORE Mentor
Marty Sack has mentored more than 200 start-ups over the last two years and is a regular business mentor at the Venture Cafe. As a Certified SCORE Mentor he brings with him the resources of more than forty additional successful executives, Venture Capitalists, Marketing and Digital Marketing experts, small business owners, and other Professionals from diverse areas of business and non-profits–all volunteers offering free business advice and mentoring services.
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Maura Moran
Maura Moran is a partner at Cambridge Technology Law, advises on Intellectual Property, technology transfer, licensing, and strategic alliances. She conducts patent prosecution for tech ranging from software and robotics to sporting goods. Maura holds a B.S. (Math) from the U of Dayton and a J.D. from Boston U School of Law, completed graduate coursework in Electrical Engineering at Northeastern U, and is registered to practice law in MA and at the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office.
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Melissa Yee
Are you new to the Greater Boston startup scene or would you like some personal guidance on navigating the community? Meet wiith Melissa Yee, Editor of StartHub.org -- a comprehensive, centralized online platform designed to connect, support, & grow Greater Boston’s world-class tech and early-stage community. Her insight and knowledge of the ecosystem will help give you the confidence to move forward, build connections, & make things happen!
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Rachel O’Neil
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Mitch Tyson
Mitch is a former CEO and is currently helping to build the cleantech ecosystem. He coaches entrepreneurs and serves on corporate, non-profit, and governmental boards. He is Chair of the New England Clean Energy Council, a partner in Clean Energy Venture Group, and serves on the boards of both Venture Café Foundation and Greentown Labs. If you want to talk to someone about the challenges you're facing as an entrepreneur he'd be glad to chat.
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Rob Kornblum
Former venture-backed executive and VC, now coaching founders for dynamic growth
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Scott Mckenzie
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Robert Donahoe
Talk strategy with a fellow innovator and founder who maintains an active IP Legal practice. Bob Donahoe focuses on “getting to yes” – assisting founding teams achieve their business goals with a strategic and efficient approach. He currently represents startups and global companies in technologies such as medical device, wearables and software. Bob recently led the development and business team that created a top-ranked (and patented) mobile sports app.
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Stephanie Lustgarten
If you have a Life Science clinical question, bring it to Stephanie Lustgarten. She has nearly 15 years of experience in clinical development in the life sciences/biotechnology/pharmaceutical industry with a focus in oncology. Additionally, she has experience in phase I through phase III clinical trials and has lead global regulatory submissions from a clinical data sciences perspective, including New Drug Applications (NDA) and Marketing Authorization Application (MAA).
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Thomas McGauley
Tom is a Director in the Accounting Advisory Practice at CBIZ & MHM. He has more than 20 years of experience working with life science and technology companies, including more than 10 years as the CFO or senior financial executive of both publicly-traded and early-stage privately-held companies. Tom has helped companies from start-up through IPOs, up-listing to the Nasdaq, and numerous fundraisings and convertible debt offerings.
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Vinit Nijhawan
Vinit is an entrepreneur, investor and academic:
- Led Boston University Office of Technology Development, launched 8 VC backed spinoffs
- Teach entrepreneurship and technology development to graduate students: MBA, ENG, LAW, MED
- Co-founder of LearnLaunch EdTech Accelerator
- CEO and/or Founder of 5 startups
- Past Partner at Key Ventures and Board of MassVentures
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Tim Bye
Senior Operations and Supply Chain Executive with experience in medical device, contract manufacturing and computer industries. Worked with innovation teams on new product introductions from prototype to steady state manufacturing. Developed and implemented supply chain strategies which include sourcing, assembly, testing and distribution of equipment and disposable products. Focused on establishing metrics to ensure achievement of product goals in terms of quality, reliability and cost.
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Will Brierly
Will is a widely recognized and followed expert in digital marketing, gaming, public relations, and crowdfunding. For the past 17 years, Will Brierly has run Snowrunner Productions. He has worked with Grammy Award-winning artists, Emmy Award-winning TV shows, NY Times best selling authors, international government agencies, video games and more.
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Venture Café Providence
225 Dyer Street, Providence, RI 02903
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Thursday
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4:00pm - 6:00pm
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District Hall Boston
75 Northern Avenue, Boston, MA
617-982-3213
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Wednesday
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10:00am - 6:00pm
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Venture Café Cambridge
One Broadway, 5th Floor, Cambridge, MA 02142
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Thursday
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3:00pm - 8:00pm
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Roxbury Innovation Center
2300 Washington Street, 2nd Floor, Boston, MA
(617) 858-6462
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Tuesday
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4:00pm - 9:00pm
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Venture Café Providence
225 Dyer Street, Providence, RI 02903
District Hall Boston
75 Northern Avenue, Boston, MA
617-982-3213
Venture Café Cambridge
One Broadway, 5th Floor, Cambridge, MA 02142
Roxbury Innovation Center
2300 Washington Street, 2nd Floor, Boston, MA
(617) 858-6462
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