The Mock Presentation will be held at Babson College on February 27th.
Teams please plan on arriving at least 45 minutes prior to your presentation.
Please submit the Executive Summary of your Business consisting of 2 pages no later than February 24th by 10:00PM so that the judges have some background on your business plan ahead of time.
Please email the Executive Summary to: Hooman Hodjat at: hhodjat@gmail.com
Also please email the presentation slides by February 26th - 8:00PM to Hooman Hodjat as well and bring a copy on a flash drive to the presentation. No paper copies are necessary.
Emerging Enterprise Center at Foley Hoag Bay Colony Corporate Center 1000 Winter Street, Suite 4000 Waltham, MA
Food: Breakfast and lunch are hosted by chapter or sponsor
Agenda
9:00am to 9:25am – Networking Breakfast 9:30am to 9:45am – Program Introduction & Guidelines 9:45am to 10:15am – Entrepreneurship Journey-Sanjeev Kale 10:15am to 10:30am – Break 10:30am to 11:00am – Entrepreneurship Journey-Mark Bao 11:00am to 11:45am – Program Overview 11:45am to 12:00pm – Technology Overview 12:00pm to 12:30pm - Networking Lunch
Guest Speakers
Sanjeev Kale
Mr. Kale is a versatile and accomplished entrepreneur & CEO having founded several successful ventures over the last 15 years. His experience spans technology, education, real estate, finance and music.
In 1995, Sanjeev founded Newfront Software, and took it through an explosive growth period to become a leading provider of software to hundreds of most prestigious universities in the US. Due to its success, in 2003, Newfront was acquired by SCT Corp, now a division of Sungard, one of the world's largest technology companies. Sanjeev now specializes in ramping up early-stage start-ups, guiding them through business strategy, market analysis, product development, team building and funding. Currently, Sanjeev is CEO of dotComcierge, Inc., a young start-up that provides hotels and guests web-based travel guides and information kiosks.
Sanjeev is a self-taught programmer and has implemented several large-scale technology projects in the Boston area. He is also an avid real estate developer, and has completed several real estate ventures in the US and India over the last 5 years. Prior to being an entrepreneur, Sanjeev worked in higher education and music for 10 years, as an educator, as director of a local school of music, as a performer and foreign student counselor. His last assignment was at the prestigious Berklee College of Music in Boston as Assistant to the President for Strategic Planning.
Sanjeev holds a B.S. in Mathematics & Statistics from Bombay University, and a Bachelor of Music from Berklee College of Music in Boston.
Mark Bao
Mark is a 16-year-old student and technology and advertising entrepreneur, and is the President & CEO of Avecora, based in Boston, Massachusetts, USA. He is a Chinese immigrant, born in Harbin, Heilongjiang, China, in 1992. He has been starting businesses since 2007. Since then, he has started 8 startups in the web area.
Mark is primarily working as President & CEO at Avecora. Avecora is building next-generation mobile devices, as well as Avecora Network, the ubiquitous technology network. Its central idea is The Avecora Vision: to integrate all technology with one another, as well as with the social graph. Mark’s other projects include, Ramamia, a utility that helps you keep in touch with your family via simple and private sharing of photos, messages, events, and websites, with birthday reminders, comments, and more,TickrTalk, a site that lets you keep up with your favourite sports teams, send updates about the game, and follow fellow fans, and Classleaf, a web presence and academic platform for middle schools, high schools, and colleges.
In the past, he's spoken at Gnomedex 2008, and organized the Facebook Developer meetups in Boston, as well as the Facebook Developer Garage Boston. Mark is inspired by technology, innovation, virtual reality, and the integration of devices with each other and the social layer.
To learn more about TyE, please visit www.tieyoungentrepreneurs.org or http://tieyoungentrepreneurs.blogspot.com/
Speaker Bios
Eswar Priyadarshan
Co-Founder & CTO, Quattro Wireless
Prior to co-founding Quattro, Eswar was the co-founder and CTO of m-Qube, Inc. While at m-Qube, Eswar led technology research and development. m-Qube was acquired by VeriSign for $250 million in April of 2006. Eswar's previous positions include VP, Engineering at Open Market, Technical Lead at Adobe Systems, and various engineering positions with Sun Microsystems.Eswar holds Bachelor's and Master's degrees in Computer Science from Boston University. Eswar also serves as the Co-Chair of the m-Commerce Committee for the Mobile Marketing Association.
Larry O’Toole
CEO, Gentle Giant
A native of Ireland and 1973 engineering graduate of Northeastern University, where he rowed competitively, Larry O'Toole was a rising executive at Eaton Corporation when he quit his job to "escape corporate slavery" and pursue his writing interests while investigating the possibilities of starting a light manufacturing company. On a quest for start-up cash, the 6 foot 6 inch O'Toole - the original Gentle Giant - was urged by his friends to add moving to his list of odd jobs. In 1980, Larry O'Toole founded Gentle Giant with a friend’s borrowed truck and a $17 investment: a one-time ad in the Boston Phoenix. O'Toole felt strongly that Massachusetts sorely needed an infusion of quality into the moving industry, and in 1984 committed himself fully to that mission. As noted in the company mission statement, written by O'Toole himself, "We treat our employees with respect and compassion, and expect that they will extend the same courtesy to our customers". His efforts have been rewarded, since O'Toole has been recognized for his excellence in leadership by The United States Small Business Administration as its 2004 Massachusetts Small Business Person of the Year and The Cambridge Chamber of Commerce as its 2004 Business Person of the Year.
Babson College will host more than 25 high school students on Friday April 17 when they present a mock pitch of their business plans to a panel of venture capital judges. Armed with advice from VCs, teams will go on to compete for $10,000 on May 16.
TiE Young Entrepreneurs (TYE) - Launches a NEW session
Come hear from a successful Young Entrepreneur, Matt Lauzon
(one of Business Week's "Best Entrepreneurs under 25")
Dear Friends,
We invite you and your son/daughter in high school, to the TYE 2008-2009 $10k Business Plan Competition launch dinner event on Wednesday, October 1st. Event is held at 6:30pm to 9:30pm at Reservoir Woods, 930 Winter Street, Waltham.
Come hear a very exciting speaker- Matt Lauzon, Founder of Paragon Lake, and a young entrepreneur himself- like our TYE participants. Paragon Lake is a trusted source for the custom jewelry design of unique engagement rings, unique wedding rings, and many others.
Matt and his partner, Jason A. Reuben, co-founded Paragon Lake as Seniors at Babson College. In fact, they won the 2007 Student Business of the Year Award (SBYA) from the Babson College Alumni Association for Paragon Lake!
Business Week named the Paragon Lake founders among the "Best Entrepreneurs Under 25." Matt was also a finalist in the "Most Promising Campus CEO" contest sponsored by Kaplan Publishing.
So, come listen to Matt talk about how he got started and his passion for being an Entrepreneur at the TYE launch event.
TYE is the best program in town for you, if you are a high school student who is interested in learning how to be an entrepreneur, think entrepreneurial and gain critical skills to become a better leader. We invite you to join the 2008-2009 class. Also be sure to visit the TYE blog http://tieyoungentrepreneurs.blogspot.com/ Date: Wednesday, October 1st, 2008
Time: 6:30pm to 9:00pm
Venue: Reservoir Woods 930 Winter Street Waltham , MA -02451 UNITED STATES
