"Investor Guidance on Business Plans & Presentations"
Note: Meeting at Emerging Enterprise Center at Foley Hoag, 1000 Winter Street, Suite 4000, Waltham, MA. PRE-MEETING DINNER at 5:15 PM (sharp) at Bertucci's, Waltham. Directions.
Meeting Overview:
The business plan is your primary vehicle for conveying an organized thought process to investors about your business, team, and pathway to success. Entrepreneurs need well conceived business plans to raise capital and grow their business.
Panel:
Jerry Bird, VP - MTDC
www.MTDC.com
MTDC is an early-stage VC firm for
Jerry
Bird has served on the boards of over a dozen Massachusetts based technology
companies including UCMS (UMS.au), Andover.net (Lnux), Bitpipe and Ze-gen.
He has over 21 years of investing and financial
experience. Prior to joining
MTDC he was President of
Claflin Capital Management and spent 10 years at BankBoston in various
positions. He received an MBA degree from the
David Verrill, Co-Founder of Hub Angels
www.HubAngels.com
Hub Angels is a Boston-area Angel Group with over 75 members.
They have invested over $12 million in 14 companies since 2000.
Investments are usually in the $250K-$1M range.
David Verrill spent a decade connecting industry with research at MIT, was
Manager of International Sales & Business Development at Xerox Adaptive
Products, and founded two businesses in technology consulting and third
party marketing. He received an
SM degree from the MIT Sloan School of Management.
Sean Marsh, General Partner, Point Judith Capital
www.
PointJudithCapital.com
Point Judith Capital is an early stage VC firm which invests mainly in
communications, information, Internet, and healthcare technology companies.
Sean
Marsh leads the Point Judith’s communications and Internet investing.
He represents his firm on the boards of Multiply, Optasite, Music
Nation, PermissionTV, and Vaultus Mobile Technologies.
At Village Ventures he was instrumental in raising over $50M in
limited partner capital for various investment funds and over $100M of
venture capital for portfolio companies.
Sean graduated from
Moderator:
Alan Silver, PartimeCFO,
www.PartimeCFO.com
Alan
Silver has been the part-time CFO for 50 technology start-ups over the last
12 years. At Andover.net he was the
part-time CFO from when the company had fewer than 10 employees until just 5
months before the company went public.
He has an MSM degree from the MIT Sloan School of Management, is
Treasurer of the IEEE Boston Entrepreneurs’ Network, and has been a panelist
at MIT Enterprise Forum Start-up Clinics.
Site and Cost:
5:15 PM Pre-meeting
Dinner
Bertucci's Restaurant
475 Winter St., (exit 27B off Route 128), Waltham, MA ("pay-as-you-go")
7:00 - 10:00PM
Meeting Presentation
The Emerging Enterprise Center at Foley Hoag, 1000 Winter Street, Suite 4000, Waltham, MA
There is a $20.00 fee for nonmembers of ENET. Register Online!
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