Building a Team of All-Stars
Meeting Overview:
Why is it that some companies with merely average products succeed, and others with phenomenal ones fail miserably?
The difference inevitably comes down to the talent of the team behind the product.
It's often said in business that A players try to hire A players but sometimes hire B players, however B players always hire C players. So how do you make sure you get A players? Have you heard: “We don’t invest in products, we invest in people!”, or “Who’s on the management team?” from investors?
Whether your company is just an idea, a startup or one with limited resources that can’t really afford a Fortune 500 pay package, your company's success will depend on your ability to attract and retain top talent. This panel is organized to help you discover what you can do to attract and retain talent in a job market that remains competitive for A players. Come sit with team building experts and listen to their insights on how to build awesome teams no matter what your current stage of business development. Bring your questions and toughest challenges to this panel to advance your entrepreneurship skill set.
Panelists:
Eli is passionate about eradicating cancer and is a member of the American Society of Clinical Oncology. She has recently been awarded as one of the Top 40 most brilliant talents in Boston under the age of 40, a 2010 Woman to Watch by Mass High Tech and a Tech Pioneer by the World Economic Forum in Davos (Switzerland).
Moderator:
Andrew was most recently CEO of Photrade, a web 2.0 digital media and advertising company. While at Photrade, Andrew created patent-pending advertising technologies, forged business development with companies such as Apple, and led the eventual sale of Photrade to publicly traded, MPA, Inc. Prior to Photrade, Andrew worked for Fort Washington Capital Partners. While there, he completed numerous venture capital investments in technology and health care, and deployed more than $75M in capital. Prior to FWCP, Andrew worked for The Watermill Group, a Boston-based private equity firm. At Watermill, Andrew was involved in closing multiple investments totaling over $200M in transaction value. Andrew started his career in finance with the Georgetown Federal Credit Union, having also worked for the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston as well as the Digital Federal Credit Union.
Andrew received his Bachelors of Arts in English Literature, Summa Cum Laude, from the University of Massachusetts Amherst, and his Bachelor of Commerce in Economics from University of Auckland in New Zealand.
Yalin Solak, Founder, Chipalizer, Inc.
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www.chipalizer.com
Chipalizer Inc. is a software start-up of a semiconductor specific Integrated Development Environment for bench testing. We are located in Cambridge, MA at the CIC in Kendall Sq.
Initially Chipalizer Inc. will deliver an on premise service, evolving to a SaaS.
Our Target companies are chip designers, both fabricators and non fabricators of Analog, ASIC and Mixed signal chips and micro-controllers.
Using proprietary technology, C TestView bench system reads "your product datasheet" and produces "device specific" Integrated Development Environment (IDE) with fully integrated bench equipment of your choice. System, design and product engineers can do functional verification and/or automated characterization tests on the bench, instead of relying on costly ATE (Automated Test Equipment). The result is faster development, improved testing capability, higher reliability and lower cost. We can deliver our solution in less than two weeks, as opposed to 3-9 months.
Version 1.0 of the software will be ready on March 15th. We have begun selling the service, and have several interested prospects.
We are actively looking for customers. We are also looking for a Customer Engagement Manager.
Meeting at Emerging Enterprise Center at Foley Hoag, 1000 Winter St. Suite 4000, Waltham, MA.
PRE-MEETING DINNER at 5:15 PM (sharp) at Bertucci’s, Waltham
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