Every week during the Flatiron School semester, 3 students will present a 20 minute talk and then we’ll have an hour of networking and discussiong. Every Thursday from 7pm-9pm!

David, Jennifer, Daniel, and Alex are going to be presenting their project, Yelparoni. It’s a ruby program that will show you yelp restaurants near you that are currently open and for how much longer. So if you’re looking for a place that’s open late, it’s an easy package to give you that data. Their package can easily be dropped into a CLI or Sinatra.

See you Thursday – SUPER SORRY FOR THE LATE POSTING OF THIS MEETUP!

The Hatchery opens its doors to a fast paced New York style pitch event.

Hatchery style honesty. In ways others may be too polite to share. It’s what you need to hear about your startup, covering marketing, finance, technology, business, presentation, and more.

Companies

What’s the point?

1. Pitching practice

2. Honest feedback about your company

How it works:

1. RSVP to attend

2. We accept pitches on a rolling basis and select five companies to pitch at each AYS event. We strongly advise that you attend an event prior to submitting your pitch

3. If you would like to pitch, send materials in advance to:

– we need PowerPoint and executive summary

– deadline is 1 week before the event

- file naming: company name (1 word), underscore, deck or summary

ex. hatchery_deck.ppt, hatchery_summary.doc

– put both documents in 1 email, do not send separately

4. We will not wait for the guests to arrive. Doors open at 6pm. The event begins  at 6:30pm and ends at 8:30pm.

5. It will be FAST!

6. There is no Q&A. We can talk after the event.

Format:

5 minute entrepreneur pitch

5 minute panel critique

The Powerpoint:

Please address all of these eleven points in your slides:

1. your team

2. what your product/service does

3. what issue/pain is it looking to solve/address

4. what is the solution

5. what is the addressable market

6. what is the competitive landscape

7. any current customer/client/pilot pipeline

8. what is the revenue stream/source

9. what are your financial projections

10. how much are you looking for in investment

11. what will you do with the money, how will it be spent

Entrepreneurs who take this seriously will absolutely benefit.

Advance tickets $10; Day of $20; At door $20

The entrepreneurial culture of the Digital Age spawns legions of  dreamers and doers.  Many chase their dreams and eagerly take the plunge: they quit their jobs and launch a start up.

Some start ups succeed.  Many start ups fail. Most start ups face an array of legal, financial and operational challenges.

Our speaker will address some of the  issues entrepreneurs face  when conceptualizing, establishing, financing and then scaling their businesses.

Please bring your questions and scenarios.

This is part of a series of teleconferences and events featuring our speaker.

ABOUT THE SPEAKER:

G. Darrell Berglund,Esq is an attorney, entrepreneur and business consultant.   Darrell is a graduate of Harvard Law School, Harvard Business School, and Yale University.  A member of the California, New York, and Massachusetts Bars, his practice encompasses business consulting and litigation involving a wide range of business matters.

Darrell’s business career has included stints as supervisor of financial analysis at General Motors  and senior analyst in the corporate finance department at Chevron Corporation.  In addition, he held the position of treasurer of U.S. Leasing Corporation, a $1 billion plus corporation now a part of Ford. 

Darrell is presently engaged in conceptualizing and selling businesses.

If you have questions for Darrell, you may reach him at:

EVENT DETAILS:

TIME:     10:15 PM  Eastern Time

7:15 PM Pacific Time

TELECONFERENCE  ACCESS:

Dial-in Number:

Participant Access Code: 9689846

COST:    FREE

Take the Pledge:

http://www.thelifeyoucansave.com/

Andreas Wuerfel

Director for Innovation & Technology Scouting

Deutsche Telekom USA

Andreas is Director Innovation & Technology Scouting at Deutsche Telekom USA. With extensive international professional experience across telecommunications, new media and entertainment industries, he currently supports U.S. East Coast venturing and business development interests for a variety of Deutsche Telekom teams in Europe and the US. Andreas also is co-founder of the Brooklyn / Berlin-based online music technology startup Songflutter. Previously, he was General Manager Billboard TalentNet. A partnership between Billboard Magazine and a Germany VC partner, Andreas co-developed the first branded online new music discovery service, established partnerships with Microsoft, RealNetworks, CMJ, PopKomm, and Deutsche Telekom, and set up Europe and Asia/Pacific representation. Andreas joined Billboard TalentNet from Intuition Records, where he last was General Manager overseeing North American Sales & Marketing and Business Development. Andreas began his career as International A&R Manager at MCA Music Publishing (now Universal Music Publishing), representing U.S. publishing interests throughout German/Austria/Switzerland, Benelux, and Scandinavia. He served on the CONNECTIONS™ Europe advisory board (partnership between Consumer Electronics Association and Parks Assoc.), the 7BillionActions Task Force at the United Nations Population Fund and was a jury member of the Advanced Media Technology Emmys (National Academy of Television Arts & Science). Andreas received his M.B.A. (magna cum laude) from the New York Institute of Technology, his BA from Gesamtschule Koeln-Raderthal and his state degree of media publishing from Joseph-DuMont-Schule in Cologne, Germany.

Eric Dulkeith Director, Detecon

Dr. Eric Dulkeith is Director of the Strategy group in Detecon’s Silicon Valley office in California. The main focus of his activities is on innovation management and business development of converging technologies, products & services, and markets. Eric has more than 12 years of experience in communication technology covering the entire chain of product evolution; from scientific application-driven research via near-rollout design and development of communication technology to currently deployed in-the-field technology.

Before joining Detecon, he worked at the IBM Watson Research Center in New York on the analysis and benchmarking of future optical on-chip communication architectures. Besides his doctoral education in nanotechnology (physics) he also attended several classes for Business Management at New York University (NYU). He is the author of numerous publications and has given more than 30 written/oral contributions to scientific journals, technology magazines international conferences, and workshops.

About Deutsche Telekom / T-Venture

One of the most significant corporate venture organizations worldwide, T-Venture is the venture capital arm of Deutsche Telekom. Regional emphases lie in Europe, USA and Asia. With headquarters in Bonn, Germany, its activities are complemented by T-Venture of America, Inc. located in Foster City, California and Seattle, Washington. T-Ventures financing activities closely correspond to DT’s three strategic business segments (broadband/fixed network, mobile communications and corporate customers), and address cross-divisional topics. T-Venture intensively accompanies its portfolio companies acting as their long-term partner. The objective of each co-operation is win-win value enhancement followed by a successful sale of the shareholding after five to seven years. To that end, T-Venture’s portfolio companies benefit from both pro-active national and international support, including distribution and marketing as well as research and development backing from inside Deutsche Telekom.

Happy hour to follow at 5pm

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Friday speaker series brings key thought leaders, investors, executives in an intimate fireside chat format conversational approach to giving entrepreneurs access to trends, ideas, process within large organizations and better understand how things work.

Imagine you had a meeting with these angels and access to ask anything.  The audience is kept small to allow for that engagement. More hard to reach guys are brought each Friday for real conversations.  Come learn about what you can’t “google” to stay updated on what the market wants and share a beer.

Every week during the Flatiron School semester, 3 students will present a 20 minute talk and then we’ll have an hour of networking and discussiong. Every Thursday from 7pm-9pm!

Jack, Jennifer, Desmond, and Adam are going to be presenting the shitavisays gem, along with a Twilio to Tumblr text message publishing service for shitavisays.

ShitAviSays is a Flatiron run tumblr that, well, basically quotes all the crazy stuff Avi says. Since flatiron students love the Command Line, they decided to build a gem with a bin so they can shitavisays from their terminal. Learn how to make and publish bin gems.

They also might present about using Twilio to forward a text message to Tumblr so you can also post to ShitAviSays via text message.

See you Thursday!

PS – We are only charging $1 to ensure that RSVPs are somewhat meaningful. All proceeds will be donated to an open source project or Wikipedia. Feel free to just show up too.