Hey BVCPErs,
The 2010 New England Venture Summit is this coming Wednesday and Thursday in Dedham at the Hilton. While you can buy a ticket for $495, we have found space for volunteers! Details about the conference and volunteering are below. I should have more details soon.
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The 2010 New England Venture Summit (December 14-15 @ Hilton in Boston Dedham) is an exclusive venture capital summit which will bring together an intimate group of over 450 Venture Capitalists, Corporate VCs, Private Investors, Investment bankers and CEOs of cutting edge companies, and will feature an impressive line-up of VCs on interactive panels; CEO presentations and high-level networking opportunities.
By volunteering, students are able to gain free admission (normally $495) and in turn help out for part of the day and enjoy the summit for the other part.
Partial list of VCs confirmed to speak include:
• Neeraj Agrawal, General Partner, Battery Ventures
• Omar Amirana, MD, Partner, Oxford Biosciences
• Christian Bailey, General Partner, incTANK Ventures
• Michael Balmuth, General Partner, Edison Ventures
• Dr. Jonathan Behr, Principal, PureTech Ventures
• Tom Cain, Managing Partner, Sail Venture Partners
• Jon Chait, Partner, Dace Ventures
• Andrew D. Clapp, Managing Partner, Arctaris Capital
• Issam Dairanieh, US Director, BP Alternative Energy Ventures
• Rob Day, Partner, Black Coral Capital
• Ohad Finkelstein, Partner, Venrock
• Patrick J. Fortune, Ph. D., Partner, Boston Millennia Partners
• Liron Gitig, Principal, FTV Capital
• Jeffrey Glass, Managing Director, Bain Capital Ventures
• Greg Kats, Managing Director, Good Energies
• Alan J. Koenning, Fund Manager, UPS Strategic Enterprise Fund
• Venetia Kontogouris, Managing Director, Trident Capital
• John Lawrence, Partner & CFO, Longworth Venture Partners
• David J. Martirano, Co-Founder and General Partner, Point Judith Capital
• Chuck McDermott, General Partner, Rockport Capital Partner
• Robert McNeil, Ph.D., Managing Director, Sanderling Ventures
• Jeffrey B. Moore, Vice President, MP Healthcare Venture Management
• Ira Nydick, Senior Technology Analyst, Panasonic Venture Group
• Brendan O’Leary, General Partner, Prism VentureWorks
• Patrick O'Neill, P.E., Investment Associate, Connecticut Innovations
• Scott Requadt, Transactional Partner, Clarus Ventures
• Chris Risley, Operating Partner, Bessemer Venture Partners
• Joseph Riley, Managing Member, Psilos Group Managers
• Robert Rosenberg, Partner, New Venture Partners
• Mitchell Rosich, Partner, Athenian Venture Partners
• Praveen Sahay, Founder & Managing Director, WAVE Equity Partners
• Gavin B. Samuels, M.D., MBA, Senior Partnering Director, Teva Innovative Ventures
• Steven St. Peter, Managing Director, MPM Capital
• Bart Stuck, Managing Director, Signal Lake
• Jake Tarr, Managing Director, Kinetic Ventures
• Louis A. Toth, Senior Managing Director, Comcast Interactive Capital
• Markus Thill, Managing Director, Robert Bosch Venture Capital
• Chris Varma, Entrepreneur-in-Residence, Third Rock Ventures
• Patrick Wack, Venture Partner, Rho Capital Partners
• Tracy S. Warren, General Partner, Battelle Ventures
• Tom Whiteaker, AVP, Hartford Ventures
• Caleb Winder, Vice President, Excel Venture Management
• Bilal Zuberi, Principal, General Catalyst Partners
Dec 8, 2010
Dec 3, 2010
Today: Meet VCs from HLM, Polaris, Harbourvest, New Harbour, and General Catalyst! Pe guys too! Babson Venture Capital & Private Equity Club Newsletter
Announcements
Remember, you didn't come to business school to study, you came to network! (aka:Drink!) You are not going to succeed on your own. So everyone should make it out to the Holiday Happy Hour at the Bottom Line Lounge at 5:30pm today. Come meet Babson professors from the industry, angels, and VCs from HLM, Polaris, Harbourvest, New Harbour, General Catalyst, and others. Pe guys too! Come have a drink with us and relax. It will be Christmas break soon.
David Gammell of Brown Rudnick gave a great overview of term sheets for the VCIC competition last Tuesday. He even drew on his experiance as a VCIC judge to help guide teams towards exactly what will matter during the competition. His powerpoint slides are attached. If any of you want to get in touch with him for further questions about the competition or about your next great business idea, you can reach him at:
dgammell@brownrudnick.com
P: +1.617.856.8582
Enjoy the lull in networking over the next few weeks and good luck with exams!
If you know anyone who is interested in the club, anyone can join our mailing list by sending a blank email to join-bvcpe@listserv.babson.edu.
Upcoming Events
Follow all of BVCPE clubs events at our Google Calendar and our Life @ Babson page.
http://www.google.com/calendar/embed?src=d1rtihf4el3sptonck8n7fm1hc%40group.calendar.google.com&ctz=America/New_York
and
https://life.babson.edu/organization/babson-venture-capital-private-equity-
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VCIC Mock Competition: Late January - TBA
Get ready for our mock competition after the break. Part of learning is failing. Do it here before the real thing. Past participants note: Unless you have been to the regional competition, you are still eligible to compete. You can compete in the Babson competition as many times as you want.
VCIC will put you in front of real VCs and give you the chance to negotiate with real startups, you can learn more about it here: http://www.vcic.unc.edu/
Still need a team? Have a team already? Register your team and scout for talent by filling in your information to this Google Doc.
https://spreadsheets.google.com/ccc?key=0Am_3P5GXFQ96dGlncDZORExHWFZ6a3djZnVOTWlScVE&hl=en&authkey=CJenyvgP
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BVCPE Holiday Happy Hour: Friday, December 3rd @ 5:30pm - Bottom Line Lounge
Beavers, the weekend starts here. Come celebrate the holidays with BVCPE and class up your on-campus drinking at the Bottom Line. VCs, PEs, angels, and Babson Professors will be there to grab a drink and slip into the weekend. Come to look for a job, seek funding, or find out what professors to take next semester, but really, just come for a drink.
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Other Events
Know of an event that you don't see listed? Email me at arthurawaston@gmail.com
For more events in the Boston startup scene, check out Greenhorn Connect, at http://greenhornconnect.com/events/calendar and for help paying all those registration fees, visit Stay in MA, at http://www.stayinma.com/home
New!!! Tie: Nuts and Bolts of Starting Up: 12/6 @ 6:30-9pm - MIT, 77 Mass Ave, Cambridge, MA
(What a ripoff name!!!! Oh well, imitation is the most sincere form of flattery.)
Please join us for the first 'Open' Startup Leadership class to learn the key steps and identify the biggest mistakes of growing a new business. Our expert guests will offer an inside look at four critical areas that every new business must work through: Incorporation, Finding space, Insurance and Accounting.
Speakers
Paul Sweeney is a Partner of Foley Hoag LLP
Scott Goodwin is a Certified Public Accountant at Wolf & Company
Sean Coady is a Senior Partner of EBS Capstone Insurance
Ty Janney is a Principal Partner at Landmark Real Estate Advisors
Learn more here:http://slpopenevent2.eventbrite.com/
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New!!! In Search of the Perfect Earnout and Other Practical Tips for Successful Mergers & Acquisitions:
12/8 @ 7:30am-9:15am - Olin Auditorium
Panel:
•Helgi Bloom, Vice President for Corporate Development, Nuance Communications, Inc.
•Tom Donahue, Managing Director, Bulger Capital Partners
•Iain Michel, Senior Vice President for Corporate Development, PTC
•Kevin Mulvaney, Senior Lecturer Babson College, Former President, DRI/McGraw Hill
•Lawrence Siff, Managing Director, Neptune Advisors
Moderator: Neil Aronson, Partner, Gennari Aronson
Admission is free but seating is limited and advance registration is required. Please RSVP to Claudia Eden at ceden@galawpartners.com or 781 719-9805
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New!!! Xconomy Forum: 5x5—Five Cities, Five Big Tech Ideas: Wednesday 12/8 @ 1:30PM - 5:30 PM - Fidelity Center for Applied Technology, 245 Summer Street, Boston
Xconomy has canvassed its national network for the most potentially transformative tech ideas—across mobile, software, hardware, energy, robotics, Internet, and more—and we are inviting a select few companies to Boston for an afternoon of mind-bending presentations and networking.
Keynote: How to Build Your Startup From the Heart Bill Warner, entrepreneur evangelist, angel investor, founder of Avid,Wildfire, and more
Featured 5×5 presenters: Kiva Systems (CEO Mick Mountz), Boston—warehouse robots for retail, distribution, and manufacturing applications On-Ramp Wireless (CEO Joaquin Silva), San Diego—wireless monitoring and data tracking for the electric grid (World Economic Forum Technology Pioneer) TerraPower (CEO John Gilleland), Seattle—nuclear power startup backed by Bill Gates, Nathan Myhrvold, Vinod Khosla, and Charles River Ventures Arbor Networks (chief scientist Craig Labovitz), Detroit—mobile and Internet security firm CarWoo (CEO Tommy McClung), San Francisco—online car-buying startup out of the Y Combinator incubator
Bonus presentations: Duo Security, Ann Arbor, MI–secure mobile/Internet transactions Fashion Playtes, Salem, MA–online customized clothing peerTransfer, Cambridge, MA–global finance Pixability, Cambridge, MA–online video Prysm, San Jose, CA–next-generation laser displays
Learn more here: http://xconomyforum30.eventbrite.com/
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New!!! Cleantech Project Finance 101: 12/9 - Virtual
Clean Economy Network welcomes its members to our next Executive Briefing to learn about and discuss what it takes to develop a cleantech project that is “bankable” in the project finance market.
Speakers include:
*Maura Goldstein, Partner, Baker Botts L.L.P. (moderator)
*Steve Krebs, Partner, Baker Botts L.L.P.
*John Zahurancik, Vice President, The AES Corporation
*Sid Sinha, Vice President, Marathon Capital
The purpose of this call is to lay the foundation for follow-on briefings in which we will explore particular aspects of project development and finance for cleantech projects, including cleantech project incentive schemes, financing sources and key issues in early stage development agreements, such as project site arrangements and joint development agreements.
Register here to receive instructions to join the briefing <http://www.cleaneconomynetwork.org/sites/all/modules/civicrm/extern/url.php?u=2045&qid=61830>
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The New England Venture Summit: 12/10 - Hilton, Boston Dedham
Whether you are an investor seeking access to new early stage deals, or a CEO or Founder of a new venture looking for funding, visibility and growth, the New England Venture Summit is one event you won’t want to miss. This exclusive full-day Venture CapitalSummit will feature:
• 40+ Venture Capital Speakers
• 5 Venture Capital Panels
• 50 of the Hottest Emerging Companies Seeking Funding
• Emerging Company Presentations
• High Level Networking Opportunities
More information here: http://www.youngstartup.com/newengland2010/overview.php
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The Capital Network - Upcoming Events:
Dec. 1
Women's Entrepreneurship Breakfast
How to Build an Entrepreneurship Ecosystem for Women in Greater Boston
For information on all TCN events, check http://thecapitalnetwork.org/programs.upcoming.php
________________________________________
Masschallenge Upcoming Events: http://www.masschallenge.org/resources/events/calendar
________________________________________
Entretech Forums Upcoming Events:
For more check http://www.entretechforum.org/2_calendar.htm
December 21, 2010 Energy Storage: Focus on batteries
January 18, 2011 Communications Intersections of smart-phone/netbook/laptop/desktop web services
________________________________________
MIT Enterprise Forum Events: http://www.mitforumcambridge.org/category/events/upcoming/
Links, Articles and Resources
http://www.techcrunch.com/
http://www.venturebeat.com/
http://www.bostinnovation.com/
http://blogs.wsj.com/venturecapital/
http://www.vcaonline.com/news/
http://www.pehub.com/
http://www.xconomy.com/
http://www.thedeal.com/
http://www.avc.com/
http://www.venturehacks.com/
Remember, you didn't come to business school to study, you came to network! (aka:Drink!) You are not going to succeed on your own. So everyone should make it out to the Holiday Happy Hour at the Bottom Line Lounge at 5:30pm today. Come meet Babson professors from the industry, angels, and VCs from HLM, Polaris, Harbourvest, New Harbour, General Catalyst, and others. Pe guys too! Come have a drink with us and relax. It will be Christmas break soon.
David Gammell of Brown Rudnick gave a great overview of term sheets for the VCIC competition last Tuesday. He even drew on his experiance as a VCIC judge to help guide teams towards exactly what will matter during the competition. His powerpoint slides are attached. If any of you want to get in touch with him for further questions about the competition or about your next great business idea, you can reach him at:
dgammell@brownrudnick.com
P: +1.617.856.8582
Enjoy the lull in networking over the next few weeks and good luck with exams!
If you know anyone who is interested in the club, anyone can join our mailing list by sending a blank email to join-bvcpe@listserv.babson.edu.
Upcoming Events
Follow all of BVCPE clubs events at our Google Calendar and our Life @ Babson page.
http://www.google.com/calendar/embed?src=d1rtihf4el3sptonck8n7fm1hc%40group.calendar.google.com&ctz=America/New_York
and
https://life.babson.edu/organization/babson-venture-capital-private-equity-
________________________________________
VCIC Mock Competition: Late January - TBA
Get ready for our mock competition after the break. Part of learning is failing. Do it here before the real thing. Past participants note: Unless you have been to the regional competition, you are still eligible to compete. You can compete in the Babson competition as many times as you want.
VCIC will put you in front of real VCs and give you the chance to negotiate with real startups, you can learn more about it here: http://www.vcic.unc.edu/
Still need a team? Have a team already? Register your team and scout for talent by filling in your information to this Google Doc.
https://spreadsheets.google.com/ccc?key=0Am_3P5GXFQ96dGlncDZORExHWFZ6a3djZnVOTWlScVE&hl=en&authkey=CJenyvgP
________________________________________
BVCPE Holiday Happy Hour: Friday, December 3rd @ 5:30pm - Bottom Line Lounge
Beavers, the weekend starts here. Come celebrate the holidays with BVCPE and class up your on-campus drinking at the Bottom Line. VCs, PEs, angels, and Babson Professors will be there to grab a drink and slip into the weekend. Come to look for a job, seek funding, or find out what professors to take next semester, but really, just come for a drink.
________________________________________
Other Events
Know of an event that you don't see listed? Email me at arthurawaston@gmail.com
For more events in the Boston startup scene, check out Greenhorn Connect, at http://greenhornconnect.com/events/calendar and for help paying all those registration fees, visit Stay in MA, at http://www.stayinma.com/home
New!!! Tie: Nuts and Bolts of Starting Up: 12/6 @ 6:30-9pm - MIT, 77 Mass Ave, Cambridge, MA
(What a ripoff name!!!! Oh well, imitation is the most sincere form of flattery.)
Please join us for the first 'Open' Startup Leadership class to learn the key steps and identify the biggest mistakes of growing a new business. Our expert guests will offer an inside look at four critical areas that every new business must work through: Incorporation, Finding space, Insurance and Accounting.
Speakers
Paul Sweeney is a Partner of Foley Hoag LLP
Scott Goodwin is a Certified Public Accountant at Wolf & Company
Sean Coady is a Senior Partner of EBS Capstone Insurance
Ty Janney is a Principal Partner at Landmark Real Estate Advisors
Learn more here:http://slpopenevent2.eventbrite.com/
________________________________________
New!!! In Search of the Perfect Earnout and Other Practical Tips for Successful Mergers & Acquisitions:
12/8 @ 7:30am-9:15am - Olin Auditorium
Panel:
•Helgi Bloom, Vice President for Corporate Development, Nuance Communications, Inc.
•Tom Donahue, Managing Director, Bulger Capital Partners
•Iain Michel, Senior Vice President for Corporate Development, PTC
•Kevin Mulvaney, Senior Lecturer Babson College, Former President, DRI/McGraw Hill
•Lawrence Siff, Managing Director, Neptune Advisors
Moderator: Neil Aronson, Partner, Gennari Aronson
Admission is free but seating is limited and advance registration is required. Please RSVP to Claudia Eden at ceden@galawpartners.com or 781 719-9805
________________________________________
New!!! Xconomy Forum: 5x5—Five Cities, Five Big Tech Ideas: Wednesday 12/8 @ 1:30PM - 5:30 PM - Fidelity Center for Applied Technology, 245 Summer Street, Boston
Xconomy has canvassed its national network for the most potentially transformative tech ideas—across mobile, software, hardware, energy, robotics, Internet, and more—and we are inviting a select few companies to Boston for an afternoon of mind-bending presentations and networking.
Keynote: How to Build Your Startup From the Heart Bill Warner, entrepreneur evangelist, angel investor, founder of Avid,Wildfire, and more
Featured 5×5 presenters: Kiva Systems (CEO Mick Mountz), Boston—warehouse robots for retail, distribution, and manufacturing applications On-Ramp Wireless (CEO Joaquin Silva), San Diego—wireless monitoring and data tracking for the electric grid (World Economic Forum Technology Pioneer) TerraPower (CEO John Gilleland), Seattle—nuclear power startup backed by Bill Gates, Nathan Myhrvold, Vinod Khosla, and Charles River Ventures Arbor Networks (chief scientist Craig Labovitz), Detroit—mobile and Internet security firm CarWoo (CEO Tommy McClung), San Francisco—online car-buying startup out of the Y Combinator incubator
Bonus presentations: Duo Security, Ann Arbor, MI–secure mobile/Internet transactions Fashion Playtes, Salem, MA–online customized clothing peerTransfer, Cambridge, MA–global finance Pixability, Cambridge, MA–online video Prysm, San Jose, CA–next-generation laser displays
Learn more here: http://xconomyforum30.eventbrite.com/
________________________________________
New!!! Cleantech Project Finance 101: 12/9 - Virtual
Clean Economy Network welcomes its members to our next Executive Briefing to learn about and discuss what it takes to develop a cleantech project that is “bankable” in the project finance market.
Speakers include:
*Maura Goldstein, Partner, Baker Botts L.L.P. (moderator)
*Steve Krebs, Partner, Baker Botts L.L.P.
*John Zahurancik, Vice President, The AES Corporation
*Sid Sinha, Vice President, Marathon Capital
The purpose of this call is to lay the foundation for follow-on briefings in which we will explore particular aspects of project development and finance for cleantech projects, including cleantech project incentive schemes, financing sources and key issues in early stage development agreements, such as project site arrangements and joint development agreements.
Register here to receive instructions to join the briefing <http://www.cleaneconomynetwork.org/sites/all/modules/civicrm/extern/url.php?u=2045&qid=61830>
________________________________________
The New England Venture Summit: 12/10 - Hilton, Boston Dedham
Whether you are an investor seeking access to new early stage deals, or a CEO or Founder of a new venture looking for funding, visibility and growth, the New England Venture Summit is one event you won’t want to miss. This exclusive full-day Venture CapitalSummit will feature:
• 40+ Venture Capital Speakers
• 5 Venture Capital Panels
• 50 of the Hottest Emerging Companies Seeking Funding
• Emerging Company Presentations
• High Level Networking Opportunities
More information here: http://www.youngstartup.com/newengland2010/overview.php
________________________________________
The Capital Network - Upcoming Events:
Dec. 1
Women's Entrepreneurship Breakfast
How to Build an Entrepreneurship Ecosystem for Women in Greater Boston
For information on all TCN events, check http://thecapitalnetwork.org/programs.upcoming.php
________________________________________
Masschallenge Upcoming Events: http://www.masschallenge.org/resources/events/calendar
________________________________________
Entretech Forums Upcoming Events:
For more check http://www.entretechforum.org/2_calendar.htm
December 21, 2010 Energy Storage: Focus on batteries
January 18, 2011 Communications Intersections of smart-phone/netbook/laptop/desktop web services
________________________________________
MIT Enterprise Forum Events: http://www.mitforumcambridge.org/category/events/upcoming/
Links, Articles and Resources
http://www.techcrunch.com/
http://www.venturebeat.com/
http://www.bostinnovation.com/
http://blogs.wsj.com/venturecapital/
http://www.vcaonline.com/news/
http://www.pehub.com/
http://www.xconomy.com/
http://www.thedeal.com/
http://www.avc.com/
http://www.venturehacks.com/
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