Melissa DiPalma |
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Mark Maragni |
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David Platt |
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Norman Eng |
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Stephen Pitt |
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Angela Pitter |
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Tara Atwood |
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Pardees Safizadeh |
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kevin Wiant |
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Tino Chow |
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Tuni Schartner |
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Jordan Elster |
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RI Commerce (Siu-Li Khoe) |
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Brave River Web Support |
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OnWebLocal (Mark Collins) |
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Pro Products Web Development Team |
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NetCenergy Team |
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Aperture (Jamie Schapiro) |
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United States Postal Service |
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Pro Internet Marketing |
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Luminous Creative Agency |
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Hope & Main |
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Sterling Clinton-Spellman |
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RCC Support |
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The Spark Social Team |
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Trailblaze Marketing |
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Advolution Inc. |
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Figmints Team |
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Sixcia Devine |
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Galen Mooney |
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Esther Jazmin |
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MultiCultural Innovation Center (Maryann Matthews) |
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Brian Morley |
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Lisa Foster |
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Ronia Peguero |
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Sarah Linker |
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John Houle |
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Margo Crawford |
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DataGenius Technologies (Amar Verma) |
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Gianne Doherty |
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Kelsey Bohannon |
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Vinay Ganti |
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Jesse Bardo |
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Jay Weeks |
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Christian Gonzalez |
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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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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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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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Erik Riedel |
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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