Top Ten Reasons to Attend TiECON East: INVENT YOUR FUTURE April 26, 2012
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Top Ten Reasons to register for TiECON East: INVENT YOUR FUTURE:
10. Network with TiECON East Keynote speakers who are all game changers: Diane Greene, Sanjay Mehrotra, Carl Dietrich & Ronald Breaker
9. Getting from the Dorm Room to the Board Room: Meet our Young Entrepreneurs Panel
8. Get absorbed in the convergence of entrepreneurship and technology, life sciences, energy, mobile, & education
7. Tantalize your taste buds with sumptuous Indian cuisine, chai, and more!
6. Build entrepreneurial muscle: learn lean and mean methodology at BootCamp sessions
5. Meet enthusiastic, aspiring entrepreneurs – one of them could be your next co-founder!
4. Receive guidance from the people who’ve made it via TiE Challenge
3. Generate sparks at TiECON East: one will surely inspire you and sustain you as an entrepreneur!
2. Speed date with star-studded PowerLunch hosts: Bill Warner, Gail Goodman, Mohamad Ali, and more….
1. Maximize the chance to Invent Your Future!
With all of these great reasons, register now at TiECON East: INVENT YOUR FUTURE if you are serious about entrepreneurship!
Early Bird Pricing Ends This Week! April 17, 2012
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Register now for TiECON EAST: INVENT YOUR FUTURE!
TiECON EAST 2012 is the annual premier entrepreneurship conference in New England!
Over 500 entrepreneurs, venture capitalists, and others in the New England and national entrepreneur community will be attending.
Early bird pricing ends in two days on Friday, April 19.
Pricing & Registration:
| Early Bird Ends April 19th |
Advance April 19th – May 31st |
Regular/On site May 31st – June 1st |
| $249.00 Member |
$299.00 Member |
$349.00 Member |
| $299.00 Non-Member |
$399.00 Non-Member |
$449.00 Non-Member |
Register now at TiECON EAST: INVENT YOUR FUTURE to take advantage of early bird pricing and network with others in the national and New England entrepreneur community!
New Entrepreneurs Learn From the Gurus April 12, 2012
Posted by TiE Boston- "The Network for Entrepreneurs" in Capital Markets & Finance, Entrepreneurship, Exiting, General, Raising Money, Selling, Social Enterpreneurship.Tags: Entrepreneurship, Exiting, Innovation, Raising Money, Selling, social media, TiECON East
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Do you want to learn from the gurus?
Register now for TiECON EAST: INVENT YOUR FUTURE … the premier entrepreneurship conference in New England!
At TiECON EAST: INVENT YOUR FUTURE, there will be three exciting tracks:
1) Technology
2) Entrepreneurship/Startup
3) Hottest Sectors
All three tracks will have experienced panelists sharing their knowledge on how to become a successful entrepreneur.
On the Entrepreneurship/Start up track, there will be three panels on how to turn your ideas into successful companies:
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Leading investors and entrepreneurs discuss what works and what does not when it comes to raising capital for both lean and mean startups. |
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James Geshwiler |
Stan Reiss |
Niraj Shah |
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Panel 2: Scalable Selling In a New World |
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The most successful companies build a repeatable and scalable sales model. Learn how to secure customers based on new techniques that combine social media and communities. |
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Gail Goodman |
Brian Halligan |
Don LeBlanc |
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Panel 3: Exits: The Last Mile |
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How to be bought and not sold? What does an exit mean for your team and product? Learn from successful buyers and sellers in the industry. |
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Mohamad Ali |
Steve Papa |
Ready to learn from the gurus? To hear their invaluable advice, register now for TiECON EAST: INVENT YOUR FUTURE!
INVENT YOUR FUTURE: Raising Funding April 5, 2012
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Are you an aspiring entrepreneur with a promising idea or trying to grow your company or startup? The panel on Raising Funding at TiECON EAST 2012 will give you great advice on how to raise capital as well as find and engage the attention of angel investors and venture capitalists!
Raising Funding will cover funding options from angel investing, pre-money valuations, pitching to VC’s, understanding terms sheets, and practical tips that could help new entrepreneurs avoid costly mistakes.
Check out the knowledgeable speakers who will talk on the Raising Funding panel:
Niraj Shah, CEO and Co-Founder, Wayfair
Niraj has extensive experience founding and selling startups.
Eric Paley, Managing Partner, Founder Collective
Eric is an entrepreneur who now runs a venture fund that invests at the seed stage.
Stan Reiss, General Partner, Matrix Partners
Stan has considerable experience with investing in startups and bringing cutting-edge technology to market.
James Geshwiler, Managing Director, Common Angels
James has and currently runs an angel investing group that funds early-stage information technology startups.
Entrepreneurs looking for funding, particularly in the early-stages, should definitely attend the Raising Funding panel on the Entrepreneurial Track at TiECON EAST 2012.
57 more days until TiECON EAST – INVENT YOUR FUTURE!
TiE Challenge – Why it’s a big deal March 29, 2012
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I am excited that we launch a new program today called TiE-Challenge. What makes TiE Challenge unique is that it is designed around a “raw entrepreneur”.
If you are a “raw entrepreneur”, there is so much excitement about the idea you are hatching. The possibilities are endless. But so is the gnawing sense that there is so much to be figured out. Does the idea make sense? Is it too narrow or too broad? How do you convert it into a product or a solution? How do you pick the next person to join your team? How much capital do you really need? How important is ownership? How big is the market really? How do you approach investors? How do you shape the idea and product into something that can get into the market? Do you partner with the big companies out there, or do you take them head on?
I can go on and on…but this is the reality of the journey a raw entrepreneur takes. It’s a long journey with continuous questioning and pivoting. It has excruciating highs and numbing lows.
Our mission at TiE Challenge is to arm the entrepreneur with two guardian “angels” – we call them advisors – who can help out with this journey. Our advisors are there for the long term, not just for a meeting or two. Much like giving birth, we believe the first 9 months from hatching the idea are the most critical. We want to pick 5 winning ideas each of which can be surrounded with these advisors for 9 months. By the way, advisors are picked from TiE Charter Members – a who’s who of successful serial entrepreneurs in our industry. They will give their time and passion. No strings attached. No equity.
Oh yes, and a cash award goes to the winners. And access to real estate in Cambridge. Also, automatic pitching to TiE Angels as well as introductions to other angels and VC’s.
Now you see why we are excited.
If you are a “raw entrepreneur”, we would love to join your journey. To apply, check out http://www.tieconeast.org/2012/tie-challenge-2012.
Prat Moghe,
TiE Boston, President
TiECon East 2010 Day 1 May 30, 2010
Posted by TiE Boston- "The Network for Entrepreneurs" in General.Tags: Education, Entrepreneurship, Financial crisis, Innovation, microfinance, Microfinancing, TiECON East
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Reporting from the field – Vikram Venkatasubramanian says “I thoroughly enjoyed the first day of my first ever TiECon [East] event. I utilized the opportunity to gain some advice and mentoring as part of the eForum sessions, which kicked off the day’s proceedings.” – The complete blog is available at -> startapreneur
The formal sessions began with the keynote address by Robert Pozen of MFS Investment management. Robert had the audience completely captured with just the simplicity of his presentation of complex issues that affect capital markets today. …
As entrepreneurs we are constantly told about what investors look for in terms of idea, team, validation, etc, etc. So, consider this, a start up which is actually a bank that was started by an entrepreneur who had no background in business let alone banking serving a consumer base which lives below the poverty line issuing loans that are backed by NO (yes, you read that right!) collateral. Would you invest? Well, it turns out that when Padmaja Reddy wants to raise capital today, she gets 30 term sheets from various capital sources in 15 days. She has raised Rupees 12,500 crores (i.e. 125,000 MILLION rupees), built a business that delivers 60% ROE and serves a customer base of several hundred thousand! She is looking to take the micro finance institution IPO in 9 months time and diversify her focus into expense reduction aspects of small entrepreneurs. Padmaja, displaying an unabashed propensity for verbose detail, completely captured the audience’s hearts with her strong, blunt viewpoints and a brutally frank assessment of the business climate and opportunities in India. It was very encouraging to hear from Sameer Manchanda (Chairman, DEN networks) about the ease of doing business in areas such as new media due to the lack of regulation in these areas. Another key point that captured my attention was Shantanu Prakash (Chairman and Managing Directr, Educomp Solutions) the use of IT to level the playing field in the realm of education in India, specifically in areas where the physical infrastructure is lacking, to enable an education experience that is on par with what is available in the cities.
I look forward to another productive day of opening up channels of opportunities for SIPtopics as well as learning of challenges faced and solutions developed by other entrepreneurs.
About the author: Vikram Venkatasubramanian is CEO and co-founder of SIPtopics, a stealth mode software startup company that is developing TopicPhone™, a soon to be released telephone service targeted towards seniors and visually impaired callers that allows them to state the topic of the call and be connected directly and in a hands free manner to end points in businesses and business services. He can be reached at vikram@siptopics.com
