VCIC Venture Capital Investment Competition 2010

On March 5th 2010, Michael and I had the honor of presenting about Dr. Chrono at the VCIC Venture Capital Investment Competition in the Northeast Region held at NYU Stern’s Berkley Center for Entrepreneurial Studies. The event was a success and was great fun. I highly recommend to any entrepreneur to enroll and if you get into the event, go! You will learn how Venture Capital firms might negotiate via a term sheet.

There were a number of high caliber school students that participated in the event. (Yale, Columbia, London Business School, Carnegie Mellon, Cornell and MIT)

Not to mention a number of great VC’s were at the competition judging the students as well.

• Bessemer Venture Partners
• Seventysix Capital
• Edison Venture Funds
• Zelkova Ventures
• Investor Growth Capital
• Greenhill SAVP
• Rose Tech Ventures
• NGEN Partners
• Tangent Capital
• Angel Investor Forum
• Lux Capital
• Penny Black LLC.
• Bluegrass Growth Fund

Michael and I were able to chat with some of the investors like Jay Levy, Bronson Lingamfelter and Justin Wohlstadter from Penny Black to name a few.

Below are some pictures from the event:

More pictures of the competition can be found here.

Check out this great blog post by Jay Levy of Zelkova Ventures as well!

Venture Capital Bootcamp 2009

This year during internet week in New York there was a “Venture Capital Bootcamp” event. Venture capitalists from DFJ Gotham Ventures and Wilson Sonsini Goodrich and Rosati came to Columbia University and participated.

It was a great event, very informative and the presenters took an interesting approach to telling everyone about how VCs think and work.

Below are some details and information on the presenters at the Bootcamp:

Check out the video of the whole talk below! The presenters go overview of the VC industry, the venture capital fundraising process, company formation types (LLC, corporations, etc.), term sheets, and what to do after investment. There’s also a discussion about whether VC funding is right for you and your business as well.

The video runs just over three hours and you can listen to the audio while working.

The slides from the event:

Michael and I had the pleasure of meeting the co-founder of DFJ Gotham Ventures Ross Goldstein talking about our ideas at this event.

Pitching to Angel Investors and Venture Capitalists

In doing research on pitching for capital, I came across this great video from David Rose:

(David S. Rose on pitching to VCs)

Click here for more links and info on this subject.

BootUpNYC 2009

Michael and I went to BootUpNYC 2009, it was a great experience, we met a number of great people doing startups and looking to do startups. There were investors, workspace providers and people providing advice. The BootUpNYC is a must for anyone starting and running a business.

Photos of the night:

Michael and I at the BootUp, me on the left and Michael on the right:

David Rose, an investor whom we had the honor to chat with:

Tokumbo Shobowale, Chief Operating Officer of the New York City Economic Development Corporation:

Darren Herman, entrepreneur and digital media evangelist:

Sanford Dickert, a social-media consultant:

Bruce Niswander, an entrepreneur and consultant with over 20 years of experience:

Rachel Sterne, CEO of GroundReport.com: