[BusinessTeam] MIT Venture Capital Speaker Event (fwd)

Message-ID: <6B75EF096AE0BE428B8CEDEA89C5F63278234A@exchange01.lab49.com> · Fri Feb 09 13:17:08 2001 UTC

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Date: Thu, 8 Feb 2001 17:41:50 -0800 
From: Kathy Hershcovitch <KLGILDEA@prodigy.net> 
Reply-To: Kathy Hershcovitch <admin@mitclub.org> 
To: "MITNY@MITVMA.MIT.EDU" <MITNY@MITVMA.MIT.EDU> 
Subject: MIT Venture Capital Speaker Event 

MIT Club of New York, 
MIT Entrepreneurship Center, 
MIT Enterprise Forum of New York, 
MIT Sloan Club of New York, 
and the NYU Berkley Center for Entrepreneurial Studies, 
Present 

Event: What Venture Capitalists are Looking for in the Current Market 
Date: Thursday, February 22, 2001 
Time: 6:00 - 9:00 PM 
Location: NYU Stern School, Kaufman Management Center 44 West 4th St. 
Cost: Payment info and form at bottom of announcement 
RSVP to admin@mitclub.org by 2/19/01 to confirm your reservation. 

Featured Speakers: 
Kenneth P. Morse: Ken is the Managing Director of the MIT Entrepreneurship

Center and a Senior Lecturer at the MIT Sloan School.  Today's focus is on

"Critical Success Factors in High Tech Entrepreneurship."  He will discuss

new technologies for the post-crash New Economy and how to identify and 
train winning teams. 

Chris Tucci, NYU Stern Professor of Entrepreneurship, Innovation and 
Operations Management will speak on "Development Webs: A New Paradigm in 
Product Development?"  He will discuss the complex web of factors that
must 
be considered when developing a new product.  Chris received his Phd in 
Management from the MIT Sloan School of Management. 

Panel Discussion: 
Until recently, it "seemed" that venture capital was easily available to 
anyone with an interesting idea and a powerpoint presentation.  That
feeding 
frenzy certainly changed in March 2000.  Today, for some start-ups, it is 
considerably more difficult to raise venture capital. 
"What Venture Capitalists are Looking for in the Current Market" aims to 
help entrepreneurs understand the current state of the venture capital 
market and the critical factors venture investors are presently looking
for 
in deciding to fund a new company. A panel representing some of New York's

top venture capital firms will discuss what it takes to raise capital in 
this new environment. 

Venture Capitalist Panel: 
Moderator: Ari Ginsberg, Director, Berkley Center for Entrepreneurial 
Studies and Harold Price Professor of Entrepreneurship at NYU Stern. 

Ross Goldstein: Ross is a Managing Partner and co-Founder of Draper Fisher

Jurvetson Gotham Ventures based in New York City. 

Bob Greene: Bob is a Managing Partner at Flatiron Partners based in New
York 
City.  Bob received his MBA from MIT Sloan School. 

Paul Jacobson:  Paul is one of the founding partners at StartingPoint 
Venture Partners, an early-stage venture capital fund based in New York 
City. 

John Mahoney:  John is the co-Head of GSVentures, a venture arm within 
Goldman Sachs focused on early-stage financial services related companies.

David Shrier:  David is a Director of i-Hatch Ventures, an East 
Coast-focused early-stage VC fund based in New York City. 

Event Schedule 
6:00-6:30 pm Registration, Networking 
6:30-6:35 pm Welcome Ari Ginsberg, Director NYU Berkley Center for 
Entrepreneurial Studies and Morgan Slade MIT '95, President MIT Club of
New 
York. 
6:36-6:55 pm Chris Tucci, NYU Professor of Entrepreneurship and Innovation

will speak on "Development Webs: A New Paradigm in Product Development?" 
6:56-7:15 pm Ken Morse, Managing Director of the MIT Entrepreneurship 
Center, will speak on "Critical Success Factors in High Tech 
Entrepreneurship."  He will discuss new technologies for the post-crash
New 
Economy and how to identify and train winning teams. 
7:16-8:00 pm Venture Capital Panel discussion entitled, "What Venture 
Capitalists are Looking for in the Current Market" 
8:00-8:15 Questions & Answers 
8:16-9:00 pm Networking, Cocktails 

Enjoy cocktails and hors'd-oeuvres with fellow MIT alums, venture 
capitalists, faculty from the MIT Entrepreneurship Center, and NYU Stern 
School of Business MBA students and faculty. 

Special thanks to our sponsors! 

Flatiron Partners  (www.flatironpartners.com): Flatiron Partners is one of

the preeminent Internet-focused venture capital firms. Located in New
York's 
historic Flatiron district, the heart of Silicon Alley, Flatiron thrives
off 
the synergy between the rapid evolution of digital technology and New
York's 
traditional focus of content, commerce, and communications. Founded in
1996, 
the firm is a pioneer in Internet investing, and has established more than

fifty companies including some of the best known companies of the Internet

Age. 

Brobeck, Phleger & Harrison LLP (www.brobeck.com): We've been introducing 
companies to the leading venture capital and investment banking firms for 
decades. In the past two years, we've put together more than 700 venture 
investment deals and 400 merger and acquisition engagements. 

IT Angel (www.itangel.com): ITAngel is a consulting firm specializing in 
financial technology and web design with offices in New York City and
Delhi, 
India. 

ThoroughBred Partners: ThoroughBred Partners provide professional sales
and 
business development skills and resources to early stage technology 
companies 

Reserve your place today!  Space is limited! 

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at 
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